So, an acquaintance of mine who lives in Florida's Space Coast area, a newly minted psych NP, e-mailed to ask for my thoughts about a full-time psych position that she is considering applying for.
In the spirit of fraternity and goodwill, I'm not going to tell you how much the pay is yet. First, you need to be sitting down and with no hot beverages in your hand. And all who take medications for blood pressure and nervous conditions should have had taken these.
What shocks me the most about this isn't so much the position itself, but the fact that she's seriously considering it. Her family situation is such that she is unable to move right now, and she cannot find another NP job though she has been looking for quite a while. I want to tell her that she would be better off staying at the bedside as an RN (where she's currently making more money anyway) than to stoop to applying for this job. But maybe someone else has a different opinion for a new grad in her type of situation who can't find an NP job.
That ad has to be wrong. It said required education was a bachelor's. My jaw dropped when I saw the pay. I don't know too many ASN's that make that little.. Wow... Just wow..
Huh? What in the world? Why is that even a consideration?
I make over $15K more than that as an OR RN. Just in my pay alone (not considering other benefits or call pay and overtime).
I have zero desire to be an NP, and I wouldn't even consider it. I would, however, remain working as an RN. In one of my RN jobs I would have made less than that for a calendar year - however, cost of living was next to nothing. I was also a new grad at the time. I wouldn't consider it as an experienced RN much less as an advance-practice RN.
I have seen other positions on indeed for the exact same salary for Family NP. Maybe these places are just fishing and being greedy. Why not? If someone will accept working for that little money it is smart on the part of the employer or maybe this is an agency that gets a cut off the top. I made more than that working PT thru NP school. Your friend would be better off finding a PRN or PT NP position and keeping hours at the bedside.
It's Florida. They pay dirt down there. I've seen school nurse jobs offered at $12 an hour (RN-BSN required!). They think everyone who isn't a Dr., lawyer, or financial industry-type should live in a trailer and just be happy to have a job, no matter how crummy the pay. I used to get emails from a list serve run by the state of FL for all kinds of public nursing jobs, virtually none above $40,000 in a region where houses are all $350,000 and above. Realizing the situation in FL was hopeless, I unsubscribed, quit my crummy hospital job and moved to Minnesota (where as a school nurse I make more than an NP in FL, evidently).
Working conditions in hospitals are so abysmal that new grad NP's will take that $50,000 and be thankful.
Holy crap on a cracker that is low! Hell, I know Techs who are pulling in that here in MI!! Yes the Techs are doing OT, but still....Tell your friend to not even consider this wage.
Florida pays terrible for everyone. staff nurses and ARNPs. Its a very saturated state, and the assumptions is that everyone wants to live in Florida and pay no state taxes so you can take less salary. Midwifery is the worst. I was offered a position (granted out of hospital, but still) where I was basically married to my job, making only $56k. No thank you.
VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN
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I wouldn't settle for that even as an ASN. I always made more than that, and I live in (mostly) poor Oregon. Wow.