Insulting pay raise

Nurses General Nursing

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I finally received a pay raise. I've been here for almost 4 years. I'm the only LPN on night shift in charge of as many as 64 clients (inpatient detox and rehab). It's been at least 2 years since I got a raise. I got a whopping 36 cents. In 4 years I think I may have been late 3 times and have called in exactly once. I do my job well and don't make mistakes. The only reason I've stayed here this long (other than I love the clients!) is that I don't work weekends- I think I only worked 3 weekend nights last year. Besides looking for a new job, what would you all do? I'm beyond insulted!

Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
On 1/28/2019 at 11:07 AM, LPNTORN704 said:

I'm an lpn right now. So you're saying if I get my bsn I can work bedside like literally one on one with my patients like I'm doing now?

I had worked bedside with nurses who had doctoral degrees. The one on one part is a long shot.

Specializes in ED, ICU, Prehospital.

Yep. At a "state magnet hospital" I worked for, "some" of the bedside ED RNs got $0.23 raises one year---while "some others", in full view of the recipients of the whopping $0.23 raise---were handed "bonus checks" varying between $1200 and $1900.

These "others" were the ones that sat in the RN Mgrs office telling tales or disappearing--or just being "unavailable" for anyone by constantly claiming they are "doing work for management". They now have all been elevated to Clinical Nurse 3 or above, hide on a different floor of the hospital in a locked section that only can be accessed with "permissions" on your ID badge.

The peasants are getting restive--and some managers are smart enough to know separating themselves from the great unwashed is the smartest thing they can do right now. Hand out those memos of how horrible we are while sitting in a locked tower.

Unionize. It's the only way to deal with this favoritism and outright abuse of management authority.

"giving them what they want" by jumping through every hoop they set forth is also not a recipe for any type of "merit raise" or "certification raise". My place of employment simply took those away---didn't matter what cert you had, you got nothing for it, but they also tried to make it a requirement for anybody to be hired in. (not a requirement OF the job, a requirement to be hired FOR the job)

Unionize.

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