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  1. Just for context if it helps, here are the differentials for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Note: I believe that they haven't gone up in over a decade!! When you factor in inflation, night and evening workers are not nearly being compensated as well as th...
  2. Night shift and health issues

    My suggestions include the following: Try to schedule all you week's shifts in a row (3?) and then do nothing but eat, sleep and work for those 3 shifts. Have pre-cooked (frozen?) meals all ready at home, don't have a dog or a BF (or a child!) to ta...
  3. Please follow format if you can, then add comments. Thank you! Location: St. Louis, MO Facility: Large Teaching Hospital Role: Staff-Nurse Evenings: $2.40 (Defined as 5pm-11pm) Nights: $2.90 (Defined as 11pm-7am) Weekends: $2.40 (Defin...
  4. Starting pay new ADN in St. Louis?

  5. NCSBN 2011 New Nurse Survey "Thank you" Letters

    Yes, I'm sure they do have good motivations and probably are able to make use of some of the info. Still, there were a fair number of multiple choice questions that were so vague or simply not well-written, that I felt the answers they received coul...
  6. After passing NCLEX, I received a NCSBN survey in the mail "on the practice of newly licensed RNs". It was long and tedious, and a lot of the questions seemed a little poorly or generically worded such that it was difficult to imagine what real use ...
  7. SSM or BJC ?

    Old thread, but timeless issue. I worked at BJC (Barnes-Jewish Hospital) for several years but now work for SSM (DePaul). They both have wonderful things going for each of them. But my comment is regarding their defined contribution savings plans. ...
  8. PAY FOR NEW GRADUATE RN's FOR ST. LOUIS AREA

    I will graduate this month (Dec, 2010) from STLCC and will start in January at SSM/DePaul @ $20.00/hr.
  9. Compact Status Confusion

    Check out these 2 pages. I think you might find the answers there. If not, maybe search out the Illinois state BON webpage. http://www.pr.mo.gov/nursing-nlc.asp https://www.ncsbn.org/nlc.htm Good luck!
  10. Definition of Medical Floor in St. Louis

    I'm still a nrsg student but i've been a tech on an acute care gen med floor for 2 years. I think if you subtract the the surgery patients from med-surg, that should give you a pretty good idea of what you have. We see lot's of patients with renal ...
  11. Job as New Grad?

    That's great to hear, about the fellowships for ADN's - I was wrong. Can you say anything more about them? What facilities? What kind of fellowships? Are these places that these students were already working at during school? Thanks.
  12. Job as New Grad?

    Gee... I'm in my 3rd semester at Forest Park (1 to go!) but they've been talking to us about applying for jobs since the beginning. They've gotten us to finish resumes already and they've emphasized the usefulness of working prn as techs and gettin...
  13. Any other new grads concerned about finding a job??

    Way to go - Congratulations!!!
  14. PAY FOR NEW GRADUATE RN's FOR ST. LOUIS AREA

    There sure is at BJH! I was in a clinicals group in Fall '09 which had a presentation from BJH human resources and they said as much. I can't remember the amount, but I think the BSN premium over ADN was 25 or 50 cents/hour. Ooops! I posted the a...
  15. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    I'm reacting to various posts I've seen emphasizing nursing's perspective (vs. medicine's) and how the advanced degrees (NP, DNP) further learning and the science of the nursing perspective. I however, with total respect and appreciation for the nur...