RCBR

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1. Nursing jobs with a sign on bonus question

   RCBR replied to imapsychrn's topic in Job Hunt

   My guess is that the bonus will be paid in bi-weekly installments over the two year period. They will divide the bonus over the number of pay periods and credit the amount on each of your paycheck over 24 months. That is what my hospital system does....

2. Burned out and hate nursing

   RCBR replied to RN1023's topic in Stress 101

   All you fellow RNs there belittling, trashing medical-surging nursing, encouraging people to leave, praising nursing specialties with minimal patient/family interaction... so sad. How about when YOU or one of your DEAR ONES need to be admitted to a m...

3. Best City to Work/ Have a Career in

   RCBR replied to Junebug0710's topic in General Nursing

   Not St Louis or anywhere in MO. New grad pay here starts @ 19.50 with the best hospitals (Washington University's Barnes Jewish) paying $20.80. Very, very depressing, even though cost of living in Missouri is allegedly low.

4. Charting...what to say?

   RCBR replied to chrisrn24's topic in General Nursing

   Don't get too hung up on the "I" thing. There are much worse charting sins you can commit. Take your cue from physician notes; they use "I" all the time, as pointed by another poster here. The issue of objectivity is non-sense. Using the passive voic...

5. Losing respect for nursing students

   RCBR replied to kjnsweets's topic in General Nursing

   I am RN now but I could go back a couple of months to my nursing school days and start a thread in the same vein about the view point from the other side: nursing students losing respect for licensed RNs. The great majority of the RNs during my clini...

6. New nurse with job that is causing anxiety and depression

   RCBR replied to nurseGi's topic in New Nurse

   "It is rough out there right now and most units who are hiring now and especially who are hiring new grads are less than stellar themselves." So very true. The good units have low or no tunover, thus offering few and far in between hiring opportunie...

7. What Kind of Patients Do You LIKE Most?

   RCBR replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Relations

   The ones who turn off the TV, the cell phone, the laptop, put down the book and magazine and suspend the third party conversation when I walk into the room. In summary, those patients who respect my time and professional expertise by giving me their ...

8. Comparing A Nurses' Salary

   RCBR replied to Joe V's topic in Rock

   Are you for real??? Universities award bachelor degrees. Community colleges award associate degrees. They are not the same degree. Please approach reality. I cannot believe you think that 2 and 4 year educational institutions award the same degree. A...

9. The education requirement for nursing is changing

   RCBR replied to DichloroacetateAl's topic in General Nursing

   The data out there says otherwise. Look up research by Aiken et al demonstrating that hospitals with higher ratio of BSN educated nurses have lower patient mortality rates. Sorry to break your bubble, but more education does make a better nurse.

10. Comparing A Nurses' Salary

    RCBR replied to Joe V's topic in Rock

    They are not equivalent, but more education means more qualification and more qualification should mean more pay, in my books at least. Now, even though that is what I think is fair, I do not think that we will see a significant BSN differential...

11. Comparing A Nurses' Salary

    RCBR replied to Joe V's topic in Rock

    My point is that your point that exact same job should equal exact same pay ("Why should you get paid more if you're doing the exact same job?") doesn't hold water, as even you acknowleged that more experienced nurses deserve (and get) higher pay for...

12. Comparing A Nurses' Salary

    RCBR replied to Joe V's topic in Rock

    "Why should you get paid more if you're doing the exact same job?" Good point, if it was true. Pick any 10 staff nurses in any single hospital floor. They are all doing the exact same job but they are all the different pay rates.

13. Comparing A Nurses' Salary

    RCBR replied to Joe V's topic in Rock

    I am in St Louis, MO and will start as a new grad next month @ $21.00/hr working full time in acute care for the largest health system in the region. I also got an offer from the number 2 hospital system @ 20.80/hr. I am super excited to have a job (...

14. Nobody told me that after graduation...

    RCBR replied to smclean27's topic in General Nursing

    Your story is so sad. I really feel for you because I was in the exact same boat. Full-time dedicated BSN student in a top NS with good grades = guaranteed GN offer from major teaching hospital upon graduation, right? Thankfully for me I saw the ligh...

15. Am I being offered a fair pay?

    RCBR replied to AussiRN's topic in ADN/BSN

    When you mention hourly pay you have to specify if you are getting benefits otherwise the comparisons are meaningless. Remove health benefits, pension deductions, disability insurance, paid vacations, sick days and all the other goodies and your hour...