How can you say you're not paid well?

scooterRN52 · Apr 6, 2005

Sometimes, I think people start threads just to see how many people they can piss off. One of the first things here is everyone doesent live in New York!!!! And when you grow up and your profile reads RN or LVN then the nurses that respond may actually take what you have into consideration. Until then you are going to get flamed.:angryfire :angryfire :smiley_ab . This thread promted me to see what I make a hour. I have been working at the same place for years and just go to work and really havent paid attention to my slary. I know what I started out at and that is good enough for me. Anything above that is better. At 21.52/hr I have three jobs for the price of one. I am the weekend on call staffing nurse, most of the time the charge nurse and the peion that goes and settles all disputes on the units. If my DON says "you need to go to X unit and take over the unit" Guess what I go to X unit and take over. I get paid to be that flexible. I also work just weekends and 18 hour days to boot. So when you work so hard that you have to stop and take a shower midshift because you have done nothing but run. NO, I DONT MAKE ENOUGH MONEY!!!!!!!!

you are seriously underpaid, maybe you should consider working

elsewhere.

hollyster · Apr 6, 2005

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

I have heard that some people actually do get lunch and on top of that they get to use the bathroom. :0)

3-4% yearly wage increases only put us behind each year. I know several nurses that change jobs every to get the sign on bonuses and higher pay.

This came up at a retention meeting. We found out that one of the nurses that returned to our hospital after taking a year off(she had been with the hospital for a year prior to her time off) and was making more than nurses that had been there for five years and received a 2000.00 bonus. It was suggested that it would be cheaper(and would raise moral)to give the staff a decent pay raise than to have to keep hiring new nurses and pay them a bonus.

bissie · Apr 6, 2005

I just moved from a busy city ER to a local community ER closer to home...took a $5 and hour pay cut...BUT I DO get bathroom breaks and so far have had at least one meal in a 12 hour shift!

It does suck that, as a newly single mom, I can barely afford a 2 BR apartment and food for the kids on what I make now.

What to do?

Speculating · Apr 6, 2005

I have heard that some people actually do get lunch and on top of that they get to use the bathroom. :0)
3-4% yearly wage increases only put us behind each year. I know several nurses that change jobs every to get the sign on bonuses and higher pay.
This came up at a retention meeting. We found out that one of the nurses that returned to our hospital after taking a year off(she had been with the hospital for a year prior to her time off) and was making more than nurses that had been there for five years and received a 2000.00 bonus. It was suggested that it would be cheaper(and would raise moral)to give the staff a decent pay raise than to have to keep hiring new nurses and pay them a bonus.

You can't expect the suits to think for themselves we must band together as nurses and provide them with loud shiny objects to muse themselves so that we can better provide them bonus' and incentive packages. Last year I received a $6000.00 sign on bonus if you think for a minute that I'm not going jump ship and grab the next six grand, then your hitting the pipe way to much. That's six staff members they could have given a grand to at Christmas time 12/$500.00 those are the people I want to work for. It really isn't hard to sensible ideas. I think the somehow the ties cut off oxygen to the brain.

hollyster · Apr 6, 2005

You can't expect the suits to think for themselves we must band together as nurses and provide them with loud shiny objects to muse themselves so that we can better provide them bonus' and incentive packages. Last year I received a $6000.00 sign on bonus if you think for a minute that I'm not going jump ship and grab the next six grand, then your hitting the pipe way to much. That's six staff members they could have given a grand to at Christmas time 12/$500.00 those are the people I want to work for. It really isn't hard to sensible ideas. I think the somehow the ties cut off oxygen to the brain.

Sounds like a plan. Nothing sharp though or we will spend a whole shift suturing them.

I went PRN because on top of the 5.00 an hour raise I get a 1000.00 bonus every 10 weeks for renewing my contract. The health insurance I bought on my own is better than the hsp and cheaper and I still get the match on my 401k.

Speculating · Apr 6, 2005

Sounds like a plan. Nothing sharp though or we will spend a whole shift suturing them.
I went PRN because on top of the 5.00 an hour raise I get a 1000.00 bonus every 10 weeks for renewing my contract. The health insurance I bought on my own is better than the hsp and cheaper and I still get the match on my 401k.

I've gathered quite a stash of Dermabond through the years I plan on glueing them all together keeps them in one place. I thought I had a deal now I'm thinking maybe you can hook me up?

lifeLONGstudent · Apr 7, 2005

"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. "

Sorry to bust up the pity party, but I must chime in.

Doesn't PT have masters degrees and pharmacy is now a doctorate compared to most of the 2 yr associate ADN nurses (majority of the nurses are ADNs at my hospital where I have worked for 11 years - I would say that less than 20% have BSNs). Also, I know that the majority of the medical TECHNOLOGISTS who work in the lab have 4 yr college degrees, usually a biology major and a chemistry minor. There are some 'techs' that only have a 2 yr associate, but they are called medical technicians and, overall, they represent only about 10-15% of the 'med techs'. I know because I am a medical technologist.... and btw, we are called 'med techs' but not in the sense that you define a 'tech', for example, a 'monitor tech'. .. and for God's sakes, please don't call us (the med. techs) phlebotomists. We worked hard for our BS degrees and it is a put down when you make that faux paux (spelling?). It is equivalent of me calling you (a NURSE) a 'clerk' - see my point?

I guarentee you that the salary for a medical technologist (4 yr Bachelors degree) doesn't start out at what a nurse (2 yr associate) starts at and we sure don't get any of the nursing perks (higher pay, sign on bonus, call pay, charge pay, bonus for additional shifts, etc, etc, etc). And if it is about responsibility, I can kill a patient in the blood bank as fast as you can at the bedside.

I am not knocking your profession. I am just fed-up with being abused in the lab for absolutely NOTHING and, hence, am going into nursing (among other reasons). At least in nursing, you are (better) compensated and you have more choices available to you.

Just wanted you to hear/read the other view and realize that nurses aren't the only ones that get dumped on, get no respect, are overworked and underpaid, are under-appreciated, don't get good benefits, yada, yada, yada.

Looking for my oxygen mask as I begin my descent down the soap-box ladder,

lifeLONGstudent

Slobgob · Apr 7, 2005

Hmmm... a phlebotomist turned into a nurse? just kidding... =P~

Although... on a side note... you'd probably be the first nurse I would turn to if someone wanted to put an IV in my poor arm... =)

tridil2000, MSN, RN · Apr 7, 2005

er rn wrote:

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.

____

actually rns are some of the least educated professionals in the health care system. less than 30% of bedside nurses have a bachelor's degree.

dieticians, physical therapists, social workers and pharmacists have at least that, if not their master's degree.

lifeLONGstudent · Apr 7, 2005

Slobgob - funny, ha, ha

:angryfire :chuckle

MrsWampthang, BSN, RN · Apr 7, 2005

I have heard that some people actually do get lunch and on top of that they get to use the bathroom. :0)

Oh, now come on....you're just makin that up! Or is it one of them there urban rumors?! :rotfl:

No one I know gets to work princess shift like that where they get to eat and pee! :rotfl:

Pam

mommatrauma, RN · Apr 7, 2005

Oh, now come on....you're just makin that up! Or is it one of them there urban rumors?! :rotfl:
No one I know gets to work princess shift like that where they get to eat and pee! :rotfl:
Pam

unless they eat while they pee.... :uhoh21:...standing up of course, cause who has time to sit...