ADON pay scale

Just taking a wild stab: $50 to $70K, but not familiar with your specific geographics, facility status, etc.

Good luck!

50 beds and there is an ADON position? Unusual in these economic times.

Answer: Nowhere NEAR enough. Been there, done that, and have the claw-marks on my back to prove it.

It's OK if you enjoy working 60-hour weeks and getting paid for 40, and having no time that's truly your own even when you're supposedly NOT on-call. It's also OK if you don't mind having loads of responsibility with very little real authority. Long-term care tends to chew nurse-managers up and spit them out; and it doesn't help that you have to deal with more of the "fluff" than the substance, e.g., you spend most of your time trying to calm down upset family members or inflating their egos so they don't sue the facility, worrying about compliance with State regs, and investigating every microscopic skin tear and bruise that appear on your residents.

But, that's just me...........I wish you luck, someone's got to do these jobs!

Sorry to hear this.

Thought that sounded more like the ADNS' spot.

You're a tough cookie, Viva.

Not so tough as I thought........I was headed for an MI last summer just before I left management, I weighed over 350 lbs. and had a BP so high that my meds couldn't even control it. Now both my weight and BP are down, as is my stress level, which even on a bad day rarely rises above a 5 on a 0-10 scale (I'd say it was a 12 before I quit!).

..I can't believe how relaxed I am being just a floor nurse again, where even if I have the shift from Hell, I don't have to deal with it after I hand over the keys to the next shift. I don't have to stay and "fluff" the families, cover the next shift for somebody who's called in at the last minute, give tours of the facility, do all of my work plus parts of everyone else's, and so on. I used to have a hard time feeling like a professional under the hourly wage system; now I couldn't care less how I earn my daily bread as long as I'm getting paid for every second I'm in the building.

OK, that was OT.....now back to our regularly scheduled thread.

Glad to hear you're feeling better.

Good for you, Viva.

Take it the claw marks have healed by now.

New ADON with 3 years ICU experience and no LTC - started at $62,000/year.