has anyone ever worked in a ltc facility that pays $40/hr? this one nursing home which is affiliated with hospital has contigent programs for nurses that pays $40/hr!!! i've never ever worked in any place that pays this much. i think hospitals have the same contigent program that has the same pay scale but still i think there is some kind of string attached to this kind of pay dont you think so???
ps. i'm in michigan and the highest pay in ltc facilities for rns are $32 dollars.
Nurses who get their masters often leave bedside care for several reasons---1- we are told we are over-qualified and won't be paid more for a masters with bedside care, --we are told there is no position except management for an Ms RN 2-it's the only way to teach (why can't a bachelors RN teach??) and sometimes, we are just looking for a way to deal with the burnout from bedside nursing....
they leave the bedside BECAUSE they get paid more money, which is worth getting the education to reap those rewards. Believe me, if you could get paid more money and stay at the bedside, I'm willing to bet that many many NP's would do that. Less of a hassle to stay at the bedside as opposed to being management. Some schools have BSN prepared instructors, I'm sure - the school I graduated from had all PhD level instructors.... all of them.
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Up until very recently, in Massachusetts, to teach nursing you had to have a Master's Degree. With the shortage of nursing instructors, you can now be a Bachelor's prepared nurse if you are working on a Master's Degree or there is a Master's Prepared instructor who with 'watch over' you. At the community college here, the instructors make far less than I do working in LTC.
But, on the other hand--the entry level education for nurses is an associates degree. Lawyers and therapists require much more training. I personally haven't met a builder or plumber that makes more than me but I'm sure they are out there. I think if nurses want to gripe about how much they make they should also be pushing for a higher level of education for nurses. What other profession in the healthcare field has such a low education requirement?
A plumber or electrician who can run his business can make around 80k a year or better. Of course, before they can be plumbers or electricians they have to complete an apprencticeship...don't know how long that is.
I doubt they are paying $40/hr at any nursing home. The nursing home where I work pays holiday pay to all employees and then if you have to work on a (major) holiday you get twice the pay. In my case that is $50/hr. for that day. Big whoopie.
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they leave the bedside BECAUSE they get paid more money, which is worth getting the education to reap those rewards. Believe me, if you could get paid more money and stay at the bedside, I'm willing to bet that many many NP's would do that. Less of a hassle to stay at the bedside as opposed to being management. Some schools have BSN prepared instructors, I'm sure - the school I graduated from had all PhD level instructors.... all of them.