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I am a RN working in the US. I am just beginning to look into the comparison of pay and cost of living. If I moved to the UK, can I expect to make more or less? Can anyone give me any information on this? Also, is the shortage of nurses in the UK comparable to the shortage we have here. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

You know the biggest shock is that you have health insurance so you think great I am covered, so you dont expect to have to pay anything extra after that, you think that it should be all covered by the health insurance that you pay monthly a bit like when we go on holiday to Spain or abroad somwhere it is all covered by the insurance. So when these bills start rolling in you think where have these bills come from and you realise OMG I owe thousands, now the best bit is the insurance companies get a discount on their share but you dont get a discount on your share -work that one out:lol2: .

As this is thread has gone way off subject but is discussing a very relevent important subject I have re stickied a thread on health insurance and hopefully we can discuss health insurance issues there and I will stick this thread too so valuable information from here will not be lost in time.

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

Back to pay the other thing you dont realise is that you have the potential to have two pay rises a year or least you do here in AZ. One is the yearly rise and the other rise is the one you get for personnal progression and attending ward mettings etc.

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Back to pay the other thing you dont realise is that you have the potential to have two pay rises a year or least you do here in AZ. One is the yearly rise and the other rise is the one you get for personnal progression and attending ward mettings etc.

At our hospital there was also two bonus checks, one if you recieved an outstanding evaluation and a small incentive bonus based on how the hospital had performed.

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Specializes in renal,peritoneal dialysis, medicine.

bit od a difference to the 2 staged, rubbish payrise we got in the UK this year

GG, did OGP pass this payrise onto you while you were under their contract?

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bit od a difference to the 2 staged, rubbish payrise we got in the UK this year

GG, did OGP pass this payrise onto you while you were under their contract?

Not a chance we were travellers so not subject to any of that, I did get an extra dollar an hour each year I was with OGP.

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Specializes in ICU,ANTICOAG,ACUTE STROKE,EDU,RESEARCH.

Hi everyone

Have to say I am jealous of you lot out there inthe sun, although Cariad you sound like you have had a dreadful time. Was it that you had huge co pays and then OGP dumped you when you couldn't work?

I have been offered a job as Stroke Co-ordinator in North Carolina. They are offering $30 an hour, which is more than my mid band 6 post here which I thinkis around $25 /hour. they are quoting $400 per month for family health insurance or $200 for the one with higher co pays. I still need to find out more about the co pays for both.

The house we have bought has an acre and a boat dock and it cost us less than our 3 bed semi here in England is worth (around £190,000). We are renting it out as a vacation rental to hrlp pay the mortgage. We have a website at http://www.acreatthelake.com (not trying to advertise as we are fully booked for the summer anyway-just thought it might give people an idea)

We have a well and septic tank so no bills for that. Here we pay $250 per month for council tax and water rates.Our property tax NC is $2000 per year but we are on a double lot so house on 1/2 acre would be around $900. think electric will be around $50 winter and $150 summer with air con. We have LPG central heat which we think will be $100 per month in the winter if we use the wood stove as well which produces so much heat it drives you out of the house.

When we look at the cost of most things here it seems like something that is £10 here is $10 in NC. Groceries seem around the same or slightly more for dairy and bread and cereal but we have found that to buy organic isn't twice the price of non -organic like here in the UK.

Days out for the family are soooo much cheaper (sometimes free for kids). We played mini golf at the local park for $1.50

I guess wages and cost of living varies so much from state to state that its a question of getting them in the same proportion- and maybe not using OGP who were offering me $20 an hour! Our house in NC would rent for $1200 per month. It has good schools and is 5 minutes from shopping etc so not out in the middle of nowhere. You can buy a new 3 bed townhome for around $160,000.We are 30 mins from biggest city in NC Charlotte which is a banking center. Of course I have not got there yet! The neuro ward has 4 patients to one RN compared to 15 to 1 on our acute stroke unit (ha ha)

I have just got my Visa screen but of course -there are no blooming visas!

Anyone know anyone who got H1B visa? My attorney has suggested this as an option for me.

Thanks

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

You have a beautiful home in NC my cousin form OH goes to NC every year on vacation she will be there next week

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Specializes in ICU,ANTICOAG,ACUTE STROKE,EDU,RESEARCH.

Thanks very much-we love it there but are so despondant with the visa situation at the moment and so very tired of life in the UK.

Fingers crossed anyway.

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Specializes in Stroke Rehab, Elderly, Rehab. Ortho.
Hi everyone

Anyone know anyone who got H1B visa? My attorney has suggested this as an option for me.

Thanks

Thy dont do H1B visa's for nurses anymore (not unless things have changed in the last few months whn I wasnt paying attention!)

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Hi

I recently moved here to California from the UK to work as a RN. Back in the UK I was the ward manager and earned £32,000pa, here I make $30 per hour, this works out at slightly less per hour but the cost of living here is lower than in the UK, yes even in the Bay Area!

I work for an agency and feel that they shafted us financially, the Nurses on a California Nurses Association Contract make twice what I do!! so working here is going to be good.

Standards of care here are different, bettere in some ways, worse in others

what else can I tell you?

Adrian

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.
Hi

I recently moved here to California from the UK to work as a RN. Back in the UK I was the ward manager and earned £32,000pa, here I make $30 per hour, this works out at slightly less per hour but the cost of living here is lower than in the UK, yes even in the Bay Area!

I work for an agency and feel that they shafted us financially, the Nurses on a California Nurses Association Contract make twice what I do!! so working here is going to be good.

Standards of care here are different, bettere in some ways, worse in others

what else can I tell you?

Adrian

Ditto I couldnt agree more

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Thy dont do H1B visa's for nurses anymore (not unless things have changed in the last few months whn I wasnt paying attention!)

H1B is not an option for nursing because nurses do not necessarily need a higher degree to practice & the H1B is only for those jobs in which you have to have a higher degree in order to practice. A nurse technically only needs to have a diploma in order to practice & ,therefore, is not in an H1B qualifying job. Suggest you change your attorney Misswoosie because they don't seem to know this & they should!

I hope that made sense! I'm not an expert, just been doing this immigration lark for a while now! :lol2:

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