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traumaRUs, MSN, APRN

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Just couldn't resist adding my 2 cents worth. I work in lg 8oo bed hospital, level I trauma center and I make $16.58 hr with 10 yrs experience. RN from Quincy, IL = I work at your referral hospital.

As for the nurse from Las Vegas - I worked at Humana Sunrise from 1990 to 1992 on post-partum and ER. Loved the sun.

To the Indy nurse - worked home health with several agencies from 1994 to 1996. Went to a home near the Coca=Cola plant and had a gun pulled on me! I would never do home health again.

However, I have also had several violent incidents here in IL, so no where is safe. BUT, in IL, it is a felony to assault a healthcare worker. Sooo.

princessRN4

9 Posts

I am in Connecticut and will be starting a new job at a big teaching hospital in a few weeks on a pediatric specialty unit. I am a BSN, RN with 5 years experience and will start at a base pay rate of $20.45/hr. with a $3.05/hr. shift differential for nights and an additional $2.90 weekend differential. This is a $3.00/hr. pay cut from my current job in Pediatric Home Care, but I believe I will be happier in this more fast-paced new environment. I am also in graduate school for my Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and know that better pay days are ahead, I just need to be patient.

TravelingTexan

10 Posts

And from the traveling sector...

I have been offered contracts for anywhere from $18 to $35/hr. But! You have to look at what comes with the salery. Those higher wages generally offer few (if any) benefits. The contracts I have accepted have paid an average $20/hr plus benefits (medical, dental, 401K, etc), plus travel expenses and housing costs while on the job.

BlissRN

8 Posts

Hello All, Just wanted to put my 2 cents into this discussion. I am RN with my BSN. I graduated in 1996. I have worked the basic gamut required he in the great state of MA. Most hospitale around this area seem to want Nurses with some type of experience, most of us start working homes for at least a year, before the hospitals want to hire us. I did my time and while working a an acute ventilator unit, I had the opportunity to take a dysrhythmia class and become ACLS certified. I enjoyed it, and knew at that time Hospiptal nurseing was my calling. I finally got into a rural hospital in my area, all they had was a 27 bed med surg floor with a 6 bed SCU/ICU unit. I got my critical experience there, but I felt I needed more. I started working for an agency where I could work all sorts of different assignments as well as work on med surg units as well as ICU, CCU, PCU, and the ER. I have been working now specifically now for almost 8 months. My salary ranges anywhere for 21.00 for private duty care to 22.50 for Nursing Home, to 28.oo for Med Surg with a 1.40 deff for 2nd shift and another 1.50 for 11-7. The specialty units make anywhere from 40 for days to 42 for evenings to 44 for nights. Weekend differentional goes anythere from 1.50 to 3.75 depending ont he assignment. Plus I must add I love living in New Englan, but in 10yrs or so, I would love to relocate maybe in VT or NH....Any thoughts or suggestions, love to hear them.

KHRISTY

5 Posts

I am a student nurse and i recieve a bursary of £390 per month which equals £2.20 per hour when i am on placements!!!!

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i live in columbus georgia and a new grad starts off with about 15.50 and hour there is of course a shift diff for nites and weekends. i also drive up to atlanta and make anywhere form 45$hour-$33hour. this of course is thru an agency. i think that we all could benifit from a union. i have been hearing about nurses striking, i just wish we would all bond together and strike. of course you always have some nurses that will cross the picket line. in some places a nurse crossing the line can make up to $5000 dollars an hour. tell me if anyone out there knows anything about nurses striking

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michelle moore

icu nurse

psee

2 Posts

I work on a telemetry unit in a large urban hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. New grads start at $16.32 an hour plus $1.00 an hour shift differential for nights and $1.00 an hour WE differential. New RN's must work every other WE. Like elsewhere, we have a severe nursing shortage. The hospital system employs 2,000 RN's and at our hospital we have 130 RN openings. Will more money help the situation? Improved patient-nurse ratios? The nurses here are seriously looking to unionize (vote to be held by dec. 2000).

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pseeRN

KT

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I am currently in the Virginia Area. Salaries here differ depending on your location. My nurses in Home Health(Infusion Therapy) are making 18-19.00/hr. I left a job with 5years experience in Michigan in 96 to come to Virginia and was making 17.95/hr when I moved I went down to 14.20/hr. I hate to tell thew idiot who coined the phrase "cost of living" it doesn't matter where you live you must still be able to pay the bills and at 14.20/hr that is impossible. Luckily I am now in Management and am making slightly more but not enough. My staff nurses make more than I do with call, travel and after hours visit because management can not receive OT because we are salaried. WHAT WOULD THE WORLD DO IF NURSES ALL OVER TOOK A SICK DAY EVERWHERE? Unfortunately we are all responsible professionals who realize this would only hurt the ones we are trying to help heal. frown.gif

marmi6

3 Posts

Wondering what is the salary of a RN in North Carolina. If someone could post info!!

nancyh

3 Posts

Im a senior nursing student in a BSN program in Southern NJ. The graduated from my school start at 37,500 a year. There are many reasons for why we are treated the way we are. Som of them are right on the money and others aren't. First, we are a female based profession. stats show that 70- 90% of all nurses come from alcoholic or abused families and that they chose this career because they found it easier to take care of others then themselves. Is it a surptise, then, that we can act as a patient advocate yet not advocate for ourselves? Furthermore we have veryu little representation in higher government. We have only recently gotten our first nurse into congress, and she was president of the ANA. The ANA is the strongest professional organixation in this country. Unfortunately it represents one of the weakest groups of professionals. Also, all healthcare personell are paid poorly. Noone ever feels sorry for the doctor becausr of the amount of money he commnands, but if you stopped to compare it to what he made before the advent of the HMO, they took a staggering hit financially. They also lost a lot of autonomy. No one was higher in authority than a doctor. now business men govern him. What the AMA did as a result of these changes to the Healthcare struture was they went to Law school, and they went to business school for MBA's and put themselves back at the top of the totem poles. Dids nurses ever try to get more power really? There are 2 mill. nurses in this country. The majority of the healthcare team. What a formidible forse we'd make if we could stop being scared of demanding what we're worth. Wasn't there a major strike in Ohio (i think) and the main tactic the hospitals used to stop the strike was to make nurses feel guilty for (abandoning) the patients? It's because we care so much that they can use these tactics. Most of us went into this field because it was our calling to heal.

so what can we do? every nurse that reads this, go back to your hospitals and unions are start a petition to the ANA to represent us the way we deserve. And get your buts into higher positions of authority. Start writing articles for journals and newspapers. Take your complaints up the chain of commND AND IF THEY DONT LISTEN BECOME A MUCKRAKER! Most importantly, realize that we must work for better conditions and don't passively wait for nothing to come. If hospitals do not pay well, go to the places that do! They'll realize soon enough what we're worth.

this is the most am,azing profession with the most amazing people and I am honored to become a part of it, but it makes me sad to see that we don't realize the power each person has to better our profession. We are the future and if we sit around whining, well, you see where we are now? it gets worse.

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Ramona2

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It has been somewhat of a reality check reading some of these postings. I have come to a couple of conclusions regarding my future as an RN. First of all, I will not work my butt off for 4yrs completing school in hopes for a better future for my child and myself only to be oppressed (single parent). Making $21.00/hr (about $13-$14 American) will not pay the student loan and bills (not to mention our outrageous taxes) while leaving us with a comfortable life style. To top this off, the Health Council wants to place nurses in B.C.under their umbrella further oppressing the nursing profession. Yes, nursing is a predominantly female profession, therefore (I believe is why) we get walked over. Why do we let it happen? As so well stated by an above ad, there are so many of us that if we were only to join forces we could fight for the respect we deserve. This site is an excellent medium for nurses to collaborate and see just how bad things really are worldwide.

Like many of my nursing student collegues, I am considering on relocating to the States upon my graduation, probably California. I feel like I am betraying my country in time of crises, but I need to think about me.

Ramona

doobie

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Originally posted by natbrat:

What are some common nursing salaries for ER, Med surg, OR ICCU

Highs and lows

I work in public health in Ontario Canada and make about$23/hour ( we are actually on salary and work a 35 hour work week). We are unionized and our contract has been up since March. I expect a raise when it is finally negotiated. Our pay scale has 9 levels, so with the current scale (with no raises at all), in 8 years I will make about $30/hour. I work Monday to Friday 8:30-4:30, with the occasional evening. No nights, no holidays, and so far no weekends. We don't get overtime, we get flex time. So if I end up working 2 extra hours one day, the next day I just come in 2 hours late.While I may not make as much as a hospital nurse, I would never change spots. No stress, very flexible work week, I sit at my own desk with a computer, free parking.I think it's pretty good. I got this job right out of school (BScN) and worked 1 year as casual before I became full time. The only way I'll leave is if they fire me.

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