A hospital here pays G.N.s $18.xx/hour before licensure!

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But then you only go up to $19.75 when you pass the boards. As a GN, you start as an PCA2 making $18.xx/hour.

I just moved to Cincinnati from Florida and the starting pay for an RN is no different here than it was in Pensacola. *** is up with that? I was expecting close to $25/hour plus difs, weekends, etc. Boy was I wrong? And the hospitial is a large one in downtown Cincy - Good Sam Hospital.

Before I take this job in telemetry I'm going to look around at some of the other hospitals. I really don't know if I would even like telemetry.

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That sounds about right. During the recruitment presentation by Children's they told us how much aides and LPN's made as well. This was last year and aides were making $11 with LPN's making over $14. I'm pretty sure Christ was close to that too. Cincinnati is not a good area for nursing pay.

Jennifer D.

Not true. CCHMC, where I just finished my 200 hr preceptorship 2 weeks ago, has raised their basepay to 20 or 21. Their aides make more than 11/hr as quite a few of my close friends work there as aides right now, not much more but more than that. There aren't many LPNS working at CCHMC, in fact I only met one. At CCHMC LPNs don't have as many responsibilities as they may working at an adult facility. The LPN that worked on my floor was only allowed to pass oral meds and take vitals. She says on other floors she is not allowed to pass oral meds, so she says she doesnt like going to those floors bc she can only do vitals. Christ starts out at 21 or that is what my friend from my class is starting out at, but that is with no shift diff and no bonuses.

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Hi All,

I thought RN's all made about $30 to start everywhere. I am a new LPN in NH still awaiting my license. I am disillusioned by what you are all writing here. I am also a massage therapist and make quite alot more for a one hour massage than that.

My friend is a Pharmacist right out of school now and makes $100,000 a year in a retail store @40 hours/wk.. Something isn't right here.

Also, what are the starting paysfor LPN's in NH and South FL?

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Hi All,

I thought RN's all made about $30 to start everywhere. I am a new LPN in NH still awaiting my license. I am disillusioned by what you are all writing here. I am also a massage therapist and make quite alot more for a one hour massage than that.

My friend is a Pharmacist right out of school now and makes $100,000 a year in a retail store @40 hours/wk.. Something isn't right here.

Also, what are the starting paysfor LPN's in NH and South FL?

How much a nurse makes per hour, as you can see, varies not only by geographic area, but by shift demand. My hospital pays four bucks an hour more for nights than days; benefits vary as does extra $$ for add'l certs.

Anyway, I'm attaching a table from another board on another part of this site. It shows you not just how much the "average" income a nurse makes in each State, but what that income is when ADJUSTED for cost of living: something WAY too many people forget about completely! I don't care if you're making $35 an hour, if the cost of living is so high it negates it.

Keep in mind, that the "average" is achieved by combining rural, suburban, and metropolitan areas together, as well as new grads "averaged" with 20 year vets. Plan accordingly :) As for this table, "nurse" is not defined as specifically RN, although I suppose that was the intent.

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I am also a massage therapist and make quite alot more for a one hour massage than that.

Something popped into my mind after I submitted the last post: while you obviously can make more for a one-hour massage, if your goal is to earn bucks and benefits, you might want to think about how many one-hour massages you are likely to give in any one 12-hour period, and if you get full benies with that. I make $300 each day I work as a new grad, a minimum of three days per week, plus benefits; even if I had a job that paid more per hour, I'd have to consider how many hours I'd be doing that job, and how sustainable that was for each week, weeks on end. Food for thought! :)

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My friend is a Pharmacist right out of school now and makes $100,000 a year in a retail store @40 hours/wk.. Something isn't right here.

Also, what are the starting paysfor LPN's in NH and South FL?

As a pharmacist has to have a PharmD (doctor of pharmacy - 7to 8 years of college), it is understandable that they make more. They also are permitted to prescribe/or distribute some meds without an MD script, therefore they have a more expanded role than nurses.

South FL pays RNs $19-$24/hour before differentials. I do not know the payrate of LPNs

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Just wondering if you knew if Florida lets nurses that haven't passed the boards work (graduate nurse)?

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Just wondering if you knew if Florida lets nurses that haven't passed the boards work (graduate nurse)?

hershey: I know how anxious you are, but if you keep peppering many threads with the same posts, they are going to get pulled. One thread with the right title is better than many posts on other threads, really!

I answered this somewhere else, but if you've already failed NCLEX, it isn't a graduate nurse position you'd be looking for. A graduate nurse is someone who is in between graduation and the scheduled appointment for licensing exam. Different states (and, indeed, different hospitals) have different rules for how long they will allow a graduate to work as a nurse before sitting for NCLEX, but I can't imagine any allowing someone who has failed NCLEX to work AS a nurse, I can't imagine that liability. Some states don't allow graduate nurses at all for that reason: either you are a licensed nurse or you are not. Thankfully, many states give us the benefit of the doubt ;)

I know you're freaking out about Test #2, but you DON'T know that you failed! You might just have passed....try to stay positive here! :)

When will you find out results for sure?

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Regardless oh which state we work in, I believe that we are still underpaid. This is one of the most hard working proffessions and while the Doctors are out there making a vey good profit we have to settle for as little as $10.50 an hour. I can see why young peple don't want to become nurses and why there is a shortage of nurses. If we could only get paid a little more, than we wouldn't have to hire nurses from anothre countries. But then again we wouldn't have the opportunity to leave a job and find another one the very next day.:nurse:

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