CT seeks $$ to add nurses

Will someone please tell me what is the average salary of a CEO? What kind of benefits they get, what is their bonuses- in dollars and cents terms. I think this is very much our business and the business of the community/patients they proclaim to serve!

This is disgraceful. with cut backs on the floors/bedside- nurses being handed buy-outs on retirement and no replacing of nursing staff. no hiring of nursing grads. UN-ACCEPTABLE!!! UN FORGIVEABLE!! How can some one accept that kind of a salary knowing what is going on in ALL hospitals/healthcare these days. CRIMINAL!!

You know, I hear this argument all the time. Now I want the facts and figures that support it.

I want to know where retired nurses are being rehired into the workforce, and experienced nurses in general are being given preference over new grads. Where I am, nurses over fifty are praying to God to keep their jobs another day, and more experienced nurses with seniority/longevity are being shown the door. Older nurses are not finding jobs unless they are in a specialty and competing against a very small applicant pool. I have yet to see a retired or semi-retired nurse get hired except as a traveler or agency nurse, and even then without guarantee of assignment.

There is no shortage of nurses out here. What there is, is a shortage of working nurses.