How can you say you're not paid well?

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Could someone please explain to me why the nurses are complaining that they're not being pad well. In case my math is wrong this is the figure that I come up with.

3 day/12 hour shift at average $28/hr in New York

12 hours *$28=$336 per day*3 days $1008 per week* 52 Weeks that's $52,416 per year......that's just the average in New York. If you do 4 days you pull in almost $70,000.

So, what the all the complaining about not getting paid? I just don't understand.

Am I missing something?

Aaron

PS: I didn't even include any sign on bonus or night differential pay.

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Could someone please explain to me why the nurses are complaining that they're not being pad well. In case my math is wrong this is the figure that I come up with.

3 day/12 hour shift at average $28/hr in New York

12 hours *$28=$336 per day*3 days $1008 per week* 52 Weeks that's $52,416 per year......that's just the average in New York. If you do 4 days you pull in almost $70,000.

So, what the all the complaining about not getting paid? I just don't understand.

Am I missing something?

Aaron

PS: I didn't even include any sign on bonus or night differential pay.

:icon_roll OP: First of all, are you a nurse? and if you are shame on you, and if you aren't same on you x2. Why are you posting on this website? :flamesonb

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OP: First of all, are you a nurse? and if you are shame on you, and if you aren't same on you x2. Why are you posting on this website?

If you click on someone's screen name, you can view the public profile. Which in the OP's case, explains that he/she is a student nurse. Even if the OP was not a nurse or student nurse, the TOS doesn't specifically limit posting to only nurses or nursing students. Some posters are pre-students (if there could be such a thing.)

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Could someone please explain to me why the nurses are complaining that they're not being pad well. In case my math is wrong this is the figure that I come up with.

3 day/12 hour shift at average $28/hr in New York

12 hours *$28=$336 per day*3 days $1008 per week* 52 Weeks that's $52,416 per year......that's just the average in New York. If you do 4 days you pull in almost $70,000.

So, what the all the complaining about not getting paid? I just don't understand.

Am I missing something?

Aaron

PS: I didn't even include any sign on bonus or night differential pay.

That is not a lot of money, especially in new york. Nurses carry a lot of responsibility, when you think about everything we do, we should be making a 6 figure salary! Statements like yours, hold the nursing profession back.

By the way, are you a nurse? If not, you should not be on this site!

:rotfl:

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For what we have to know, the responsibility we have to carry, what we have to do and the hours we must work...we are VASTLY underpaid, IMHO.

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slobgob]there are rns making less than $20/hr around the country... $28 is pretty good, but you'd also have to figure in the high cost of living.

i think the point isn't: nurses can't survive on their salary.

more like: nurses aren't paid well enough for such huge responsibilities and hard work. you have so many lives in your hands... and you're in a position where one error could end that life.

to speculating: your post was very well put! that should be on a poster somewhere. a place that most of the world could read and think about.

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Could someone please explain to me why the nurses are complaining that they're not being pad well. In case my math is wrong this is the figure that I come up with.

3 day/12 hour shift at average $28/hr in New York

12 hours *$28=$336 per day*3 days $1008 per week* 52 Weeks that's $52,416 per year......that's just the average in New York. If you do 4 days you pull in almost $70,000.

So, what the all the complaining about not getting paid? I just don't understand.

Am I missing something?

Aaron

PS: I didn't even include any sign on bonus or night differential pay.

Could someone please explain to me why a physician can make a 6 digit-plus salary and the nurse who is the next highest level of education in the hosptial only starts out a couple of dollars higher the the cna's or the nurse techs. (no offense to cna's) Please - BE FOR REAL!!! Especially when you catch the doctor's med error, suggest a needed lab, access their pt, or how abouth this one - when they ask you over the phone what does the pt need. They go home to there $500,00 house with manicured lawns and you go home to your 2 bedroom shack living next door the the crack head you just took care of. And you did it all while working a 12hr plus day with a 10 plus pt load and no lunch. Oh and by the way your tech called in.

HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!

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another drive-by trolling post I am afraid.

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Oh heck, I just compare what salary comes in to what expenses go out, and then it's easy. Nowadays, it's just harder to make a living than ever before, but it's nearly impossible to imagine that back in the '50s, one person could work and another could actually afford to stay home, and the kids still got to live in a real house.

What happened to that anyhow?

It's sad isn't, Angie, we're the last of our people to not really know how good we had it. I remember I wasn't but 9-10 y/o before we started to have to lock door to our house - wide open all day long and nobody home. Where everybody on the block took care of one and other, we were so close it was like family. We had a bar like "Cheers" on our corner. Now days your lucky if you know your neighbors name, and you have a 9mm under your pillow. We really screwed things up in a single generation. What's sadder is were the generation who really screwed things up! My, My, this thread has shapely turn hasn't it.

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Could someone please explain to me why a physician can make a 6 digit-plus salary and the nurse who is the next highest level of education in the hosptial only starts out a couple of dollars higher the the cna's or the nurse techs. (no offense to cna's) Please - BE FOR REAL!!! Especially when you catch the doctor's med error, suggest a needed lab, access their pt, or how abouth this one - when they ask you over the phone what does the pt need. They go home to there $500,00 house with manicured lawns and you go home to your 2 bedroom shack living next door the the crack head you just took care of. And you did it all while working a 12hr plus day with a 10 plus pt load and no lunch. Oh and by the way your tech called in.

HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!

Lunch? What is that? I have'nt one these lunchs in years! Is this a new concept a fad maybe.

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Could someone please explain to me why the nurses are complaining that they're not being pad well. In case my math is wrong this is the figure that I come up with.

3 day/12 hour shift at average $28/hr in New York

12 hours *$28=$336 per day*3 days $1008 per week* 52 Weeks that's $52,416 per year......that's just the average in New York. If you do 4 days you pull in almost $70,000.

So, what the all the complaining about not getting paid? I just don't understand.

Am I missing something?

Aaron

PS: I didn't even include any sign on bonus or night differential pay.

oh ya, you're missing something alright.

i bought a new light fixture for my kitchen. i called around to electricians to get estimates for putting it up.

the best i could do was $75.

he did it in an hour and 15 minutes, and i had to help hold it up.

now, if **WE** could give estimates like the real world does for our work, it would go like this....

i need you to monitor my mom tonight in icu.

i need you to check her a line every hour so she doesn't lose her hand.:p :uhoh21:

i need you to watch her urine output, so she doesn't lose her kidneys.:p :uhoh21:

please watch her heart too every few minutes, bc she had a lot of lasix today and she may have a low k and develop a lethal arrythmia. also, could you check her electolyles on your shift so perhaps we could avoid that with a k run? and when you do give the k run, you do know how to do that right...? one wrong move and you'll kill her ya know. :p :uhoh21:

additionally, could you please turn her every few hours bc if her back breaks down, i'll sue you.

and please don't forget her breathing. her vent settings are such...you know what they mean, bc if you don't, you could kill her. you do know how she needs this thing to be monitored and to watch her abgs and pulse ox too. you are not afraid to call the dr at 4am if something is a miss...are you?? that could also cause her demise...:p :uhoh21:

shall i go on...or do you **GET IT *** yet.

ya, i'll watch your mom... she'll get all that and more for a measly $75 an hour.

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another drive-by trolling post I am afraid.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Any RN who makes less than $25.00/hour is being underpaid, but that's my opinion. I'm sure others might think less than that is acceptable to them....depending on how long each nurse has been practicing. :) No matter where I live, I want at least $25.00/hour to do floor nursing.

I work 12 hr. nights 3 days a week at 30.25 an hr. + 18% shift differential

and that is in the northeast part of the country, what I'm reading here is telling me what I already knew, nurses below mason/dixon line, and the midwest seem to be underpaid.

:uhoh21:

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