Nurses General Nursing
Published Apr 4, 2001
U.S. Navy
RN
16 yrs
Clinic Manager
$6,800.00 month
Moonlighting job:
16
NICU
$31.86/hr
charlee55
1 Post
2+ yrs
Home Health
No. Calif.
$28.56/hr casual (no benefits)
& $18.00/hr part time Shift work (24/7 pt, no benefits)
It's important to post where you live. Around here the "average home costs $150,000.
RN-PA, RN
626 Posts
1. RNC (Certified, Med-Surg. No extra pay for cert.)
2. Eight years as an RN.
3. Med-Surg staff nurse, part-time.
4. $24.55 with $2.40 evening shift differential ($26.95/hr). We don't get any extra pay for working every other weekend, and I receive no benefits. We get time and 1/2 for working every other holiday.
5. Suburb of Philadelphia, PA.
6. ADN
calililly
17 Posts
I will also post a reply although I am not yet an RN (still a student...2nd semester):
1. Pharmacy Technician
2. 4 years
3. Retail Pharmacy in a large chain
4. $14.67/hr (but I'm part time while I'm in school-I have benefits
under my husband's plan and he works at thesame place I do!)
5. Suburb of Los Angeles, California
:)
mario_ragucci
1,041 Posts
Dave/dplear - I know what you mean - and I know this thread has a purpose, and I am with it.
Sometimes when money gets thrown into an equasion, it breeds jealousy, resentment, greed, all that kinda stuff. Again I say money is important, and I am a student, who ain't trying to buy a home (yet).
I am glad to see folks are disclosing what they make. In previous jobs it was always a secret, and you had to have a special "political talent" in order to negotiate more money with a boss. You know what I mean.
Mario is also coming to the realization that many health care corporations are "for profit" corporations. I can't touch that one with a 10 foot pole yet, but a core understanding I have now is that caring for someone is not in the same boat as $profit$, or money. Just my additional comments, and I hope no one will get mad at me for talking about it, or think I am too long winded.
Teshiee
712 Posts
I work in NICU 2 YEARS 29.00 hr
Registry 38.00 Level II/III NICU
Inland Empire California
I agree nursing is a business. We all have choices in this profession I work with staff nurses that player hate registry nurses because they make more. I turn around and simply say "Don't hate the player, hate the game!" They can go to an agency or quit and find a better paying job. I am proud of Dplear make that paper why struggle for pennies when you can make dollars.
California's cost of living is high too and I know a good friend of mine made 120k in working registry! It is all up to you. So many nurses settle for raggedy wages. When I came out of nursing school I took a low paying new grad position to learn my specialty then I resigned and started working registry. I made 61K last year and I didn't have to work that hard so you see either you be a HAVE or HAVE NOT! Don't hate the ones that have!
sgavette
40 Posts
1. RN
2. 1 year LPN; 3 years RN
3. Charge ER
4. $14.90 plus shift differential
Hey Teshiee, don't get all fixated on money, now. Money is just part of this game. There probably are not many nurses at poverty level :-) And if you want to make and save money like a squirrel, that's cool. Much of the reason Mario is going into nursing is for the non-tangable aspects. Don't get me wrong; The money IS important, and i would not want/allow nurses to be treated unfair/taken advantage of.
Nursing is a business - okay. Nursing is an industry - okay. Helping other people is like working on an assembly line - now its getting out of whack, see?
I'm not trying to be Mr. Crusader who works for free, just talking. :-)
I wonder how much the nurses who take care of Ronald Reagan make? What are their bennies like? :-)
Peppurr101
8 Posts
1. BSN
2. 19 years
3. ICU/CCU
4. Base rate $28.17 per hour plus night and weekend diff and $8.00 per hour extra shift bonus. Total last year with a LOT of overtime=$80,000
km rn
96 Posts
17 years
24.00 per hour
benefits - health insurance, poor dental insurance, $15,000 life insurance.
live4today, RN
5,099 Posts
1) RN
2) Since March 1987
3) Nurse of many trades, last one being pediatrics
4) $42,000/year made when last worked in year 1997
P.S. I must say that I am sooooooo SHOCKED to see such low wages from when I last worked in nursing until today. Seems like salaries are standing still in nursing, eh?
KKERRN
80 Posts
18 YEARS EXPERIENCE
28.95/HR EVERY WEEKEND 12 HR SHIFTS
ER
SOUTHWEST OHIO
nursedawn67, LPN
1,046 Posts
1. LPN
2. 2 years
3. LTC in Michigan
4. $13.97/hr
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