How can you say you're not paid well?

[malusport]

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.

[closatssl1]

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. :uhoh21:

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

Tridil 2000, I don't think it could be put any better than that! :yelclap: EXCELLENT way putting it into words. Hopefully, the original person who posted will get the point? Is he a nurse by the way???

[tridil2000, MSN, RN]

Tridil 2000, I don't think it could be put any better than that! :yelclap: EXCELLENT way putting it into words. Hopefully, the original person who posted will get the point? Is he a nurse by the way??? :confused:

actually, i should tell them they get half price special bc i do 2 pts at a time... you pay $37/h and they'll pay $37/h!!!!!

LOL!!!:rotfl: ...

.....thinking of how cheap the med surg nurses charge would be when you divide $75 up by 10 pts!!!! you guys are basement bargain at $$7.50 an hour!!

[brudjazz]

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?

Continuous inflation, progression of technology to the point that humans are not needed for production of products, EXTREME increase in population, maybe?

[brudjazz]

: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

You really could use some manners, in my opinion. Ever consider that maybe some posters here aren't nurses, but want to become nurses? I'm sure you didn't do any kind of research into the field of nursing before you became a nurse. No, you wouldn't do that. It would be wrong.

[prmenrs, RN]

Please remember: NO PERSONAL ATTACKS!

[Uptoherern, RN]

Garbage Collectors Make More Than Nurses...........they Are Mostly Men. Need I Say More.

[Liann]

I am a med tech in the Blood Bank. When I worked on Thanksgiving, an OR nurse came to pick up blood and told me I could take my time getting it ready because she was on double-triple overtime.....isnt that wonderful? (I sure as heck was NOT getting any of that kind of pay) I told her we only have ONE speed in the Blood Bank and that is STAT

Even if I did get that kind of money , I definitely would not go around bragging to other departments about it. No wonder the animosity continues.....

[jnette, ASN, EMT-I]

Certainly depends on what area of the country one lives in.

LPNs make far more than I do here as an RN in some parts of the country.

But considering the work I do, the responsibilities I have, and the physical toll it takes on my body, I feel I am well underpaid. I've been an RN over two years now and am still a few cents short of $17.00/hr.

[scooterRN52]

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... =)

Starting an IV takes more skill than collecting a blood specimen, beleive me, I do both as an RN.

[scooterRN52]

Certainly depends on what area of the country one lives in.

LPNs make far more than I do here as an RN in some parts of the country.

But considering the work I do, the responsibilities I have, and the physical toll it takes on my body, I feel I am well underpaid. I've been an RN over two years now and am still a few cents short of $17.00/hr.

What part of the country do you practice?

[UM Review RN, ASN, RN]

Continuous inflation, progression of technology to the point that humans are not needed for production of products, EXTREME increase in population, maybe?

Gee, ya think? :chuckle

[scooterRN52]

Garbage Collectors Make More Than Nurses...........they Are Mostly Men. Need I Say More.

Tell me, what garbage man makes $36.00 to$50.00 an hr.?