I live and work in Southern TX. I came here almost 14 years ago. The wages haven't changed in 14 YEARS!! At some facilities the wages are even less than they were when I first entered this market.
So I encourage any and every nurse to recognize:
1. We are the Patient's Advocate
2. We are worthy of competitive compensation
3. We need to stop accepting wages the way they are now.
Solution: Get your year or two of experience (depending on specialty) and go travel, go to a staffing agency, get the wages that they should be paying every nurse every day. Force these organizations to recognize we won't accept being disregarded. These organizations have the money, they have the capital dollars, they give those dollars to build parking garages and give bonuses to people that make two to three times the wages of the nurses who are providing the care and filling out the electronic billing systems.
That's great News! So your base rate before differentials is 40.00 per hour. That's awesome. I wish it were true for all. We need to focus on the organizations that give nurses a voice and give us the pay. They have to be out there somewhere. We have to flock to these organizations. Push the market so that other facilities have no choice but to match pay and environment.
That's great News! So your base rate before differentials is 40.00 per hour. That's awesome. I wish it were true for all. We need to focus on the organizations that give nurses a voice and give us the pay. They have to be out there somewhere. We have to flock to these organizations. Push the market so that other facilities have no choice but to match pay and environment.
Honestly, hoping organizations give nurses a voice and provide them fair compensation is pie in the sky. Short of organizing and enlisting a union, they most certainly are not going to bend and just decide to do the right thing. To do so would affect their bottom line ($$$) and translate to fewer perks and golden parachutes for senior management
So, I recently went back to the hospital in CCU. Now that I’m off orientation, my facility has a program where If you sign up for one extra shift a week beyond your FTE, you get an extra $52/hr, also includes OT pay & shift/weekend differentials. With that in mind, my hourly wage for that extra shift will be over $100/hr. You are also the first person to be floated out or called off(unlikely to happen).
And after 4 weeks of the OT, you also get a $500 bonus, whether you work all 4 shifts or get called off, just for signing up for the extra shifts. This was all arranged by our union. Plus if you don’t call off for two months straight, you get another $500 bonus.
This program has helped staffing a bit but they’re still sending out 3 text messages a day begging for staff, but not offering incentive pay, which was already in place prior to this new agreement.
So we need to organize, or unionize. I haven't ever been anti-union, but I have wondered at the true benefit to nurses. My experience is that the union in New York was very effective. I will try to contact other avenues, but while I am doing that does anyone here have ties or acquaintances in a union that they feel is effective?
So, I recently went back to the hospital in CCU. Now that I’m off orientation, my facility has a program where If you sign up for one extra shift a week beyond your FTE, you get an extra $52/hr, also includes OT pay & shift/weekend differentials. With that in mind, my hourly wage for that extra shift will be over $100/hr. You are also the first person to be floated out or called off(unlikely to happen).
And after 4 weeks of the OT, you also get a $500 bonus, whether you work all 4 shifts or get called off, just for signing up for the extra shifts. This was all arranged by our union. Plus if you don’t call off for two months straight, you get another $500 bonus.
This program has helped staffing a bit but they’re still sending out 3 text messages a day begging for staff, but not offering incentive pay, which was already in place prior to this new agreement.
This sounds awesome but I'm sure it was not just a good will gesture by senior management to fairly compensate nurses. I would be willing to wager that this came either from sheer desperation to cover shifts or was negotiated by your union
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Snatchedwig, BSN, CNA, LPN, RN
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Girl that's section 8. I was just in Cape Cod Massachusetts and made a profit. You ain't doing something right boo.