Nevada Lowest Paying Nurses?????

[buffalowing81]

Hi me and my monkey again :monkeydance: . OK a friend of mine's wife who I guess was a nurse in Vegas said that Nevada is the lowest paying state for nursing? It says right on www.nvnurses.com that it's in the upper 25% ? Does this person not have all her facts together or what?

[Nakia]

I apllied to just about every hospital in the area. Sunrise, Desert Springs, St. Rose, Spring Mountain, Valley View. I did do my research and got the scoop on where I should and shouldn't work. Their pay is about the same with the same benefits plus their all private hospitals. Yea UMC gets talked about and dragged through the mud, but I LOVE UMC. It's a teaching hospital so you learn a lot, the people who work here are great and the benefits are excellent.

As a new grad it was hard because you have to wait till their website offers new grad positions. It will actually say New Graduate. I know for the ER they only had 3 open positions and a lot of people interviewing so. Just apply and see what happens.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Nevada is not the lowest paying state. Just chat with some of the RNs who work in the Southeastern states. It is common for Mississippi RNs to earn in the $16 hourly range as a new grad in a hospital. Arkansas is not much better, because some of their hospitals start new grad RNs at about $17 per hour. I'll repeat firmly that Nevada is not the lowest paying state.