Does a BSN earn you more in Northern CA

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Which hospitals in northern california offer more pay to RNs with a BSN?

Are homes or apartments more affordable in Northern California now with the struggling economy or has the real estate continue to hold its own?

Yep, 5% from the git go:yeah:...not seein' any ADN vs. BSN hostility either. But then again, I am in Far Northern California :D.

Dave

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I haven't experienced the hostility myself, but have heard from classmates (we are in an ABSN program) that some staff nurses have really bad mouthed our program saying that there's no way we can learn what we need to in a one-year program and that 2 year ADN programs are better. I have heard also heard that ADN students are better prepared clinically. However, I was talking to a current ADN student who says they are in their 3rd semester and have not started IVs yet. We started IVs (whether or not successful another story) two weeks into clinicals on our first rotation. I guess it just depends and any route one chooses is the best route for that particular person. If I were young and had time on my side, I would have gone ADN all the way...

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Specializes in psychiatric, UR analyst, fraud, DME,MedB.
Yep, 5% from the git go:yeah:...not seein' any ADN vs. BSN hostility either. But then again, I am in Far Northern California :D.

Dave

:typing hI Northern California! how are the salary over there and how work that is not in the hospital ? I am a Medicare complex review RN analyst. I am serously thinking of going North...southern is getting to be a bit more expensive and crowded.

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Hi there!

I can tell you that Kaiser (which is HUGE in NCAL) doesn't pay more for a BSN. But they have great wages and benefits! But if you want to move up into management positions then the BSN will be a huge benefit to you to have it. I loved working there and couldn't recommend it more. You should check out the new Modesto Hospital that they just opened this month! Plus housing prices there are getting very cheap. Especially in Riverbank, a near by small town.

Good Luck with your search!

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Whats the name of the new hospital in modesto and how far is it from San Fran

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The new hospital is called the Modesto Medical Center. It is pretty far from San Francisco. With traffic it would probably take 4 hrs to drive there. Without traffic probably about 2.5 hrs. But they also have a bunch of facilities across all of NCAL, including one in San Francisco.

If you are really interested let me know I can get you in touch with some great people in Modesto. I miss the place but my hunny needed to go back to school.

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Specializes in psychiatric, UR analyst, fraud, DME,MedB.
The new hospital is called the Modesto Medical Center. It is pretty far from San Francisco. With traffic it would probably take 4 hrs to drive there. Without traffic probably about 2.5 hrs. But they also have a bunch of facilities across all of NCAL, including one in San Francisco.

If you are really interested let me know I can get you in touch with some great people in Modesto. I miss the place but my hunny needed to go back to school.

:wink2:thanks , you are so kind. I would prefer University towns, since my daughter is in college and my grand daughter is also my priority....good area with a diverse population, and family friendly including single mom's ?

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Specializes in med/surg, ER.
:wink2:thanks , you are so kind. I would prefer University towns, since my daughter is in college and my grand daughter is also my priority....good area with a diverse population, and family friendly including single mom's ?

CSU Stanislaus in Turlock is less than 30 miles from the Kaiser Hospital in Modesto. Modesto is about 90 miles from San Francisco. I don't think it has ever taken me more than 2.5 hours to get there even with traffic...but then I don't travel during "rush" hour. If you were coming out of San Francisco in the mornings, you would be going against the crowd.

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Specializes in MSICU.

getting back to the original post concerns

A BSN does not really pay more. At my position I don't think it pays

more at all. But some hospitals wont hire newly graduated ADN. They

want the new grads to be BSNs, so the advantage in having one is not directly financial as it is that having a BSN will get you the job over someone with an ADN. Like I said some places/units wont even hire ADN unless they have lots of experience. :redpinkhe

If you are thinking that the mortgage meltdown will give you a good deal

on a home, I wouldn't count on it. Out here a "deal" is getting a one bedroom condo for 400K. You could live way, way out in the suburbs and buy a home for less. Some people at my hospital do this and work all their

shifts at once. 6 days in row and then commute back home with a week off.

Northern California is a great place to work. We have a strong union and strong nursing centers like UCSF and Stanford. I love it here, but it is a trade off. You won't have the big house that you could probably afford somewhere else.

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Specializes in MSICU.

Also, just to let everyone know There is no nursing shortage in the bay area. Getting a position here is highly competitive. Do not expect a job to

just be handed to you. The word is out on nursing here. Everyone knows about it and everyone wants to come here.

My advice is to work as a traveler at a bay area hospital first and then see if you can handle living here. After this I would then approach the hospital for whom you work as a traveler about getting a position as a staff nurse.

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Sorry to get into this discussion so late. There is a hospital in Stockton (between Sacramento and Modesto) that has a pay differential for a bachelor's degree in any health-related field. It's not much but at least there is recognition. The hospital is St. Joseph's Medical Center and this bonus has been in our labor contract for a long time. We also receive a pay differential for being nationally certified, i.e. CCRN, CEN, RN-C, etc. Stockton is 90 miles east of San Francisco and about the same distance west of Lake Tahoe. We've been in the news lately about our housing foreclosure but it's not really a bad place to live.

Hope this helps :redbeathe

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Specializes in Trauma.

I think eventually the hospitals here will pay more for a BSN. Maybe not, but in NYC, they're paying more for BSN vs. ADN. It's between $1200 and $2000 per year. Nothing really.

Many of the hospitals here in the bay area are only hiring RN's. Sooo...it could possibly happen soon.

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