New Grad Pay!!

[crp2000]

I know the 'Nursing Pay' discussion has had the CRAP beat out of it, but this thread is directed to those NEW GRADS that have just accepted their FIRST nursing job with ONLY SCHOOL-RELATED EXPERIENCE behind them. If you will, please answer the following questions:

1) Degree (i.e. Associates, Bachelors, etc.)

2) Starting Salary or Hourly pay

3) CITY and STATE in which you will be working

I am a career changer and I AM NOT going into nursing for the money, but my hopes are to get some REAL figures from this thread in an attempt to 'GUESS-TI-MATE' just what type of pay I should expect.

Any and all HONEST responses will be GREATLY appreciated!!

Thanks!!

[geekgolightly, BSN, RN]

Originally posted by MoJoeRN,C

Keeping salaries confidential is a ploy that management and human resourses use to hide the fact of how they're screwing over certain employees. If salarly was based on job performance, competence, experience and education; and personalities and/or politics left out, salaries could be competive and more in the open

All new grads get paid the same rate and raises are then granted by experience and by merit. Starting salaries, at least in my hospital, are out in the open.

[Ghetto Supersta]

Originally posted by geekgolightly

If you are at Ben taub on the 4th floor, you might run into me this summer, and we won't even know each other! I am doing my clinical rotation there and we are rounding through the fourth floor. I have clinicals left in MICU, SICU and OR. I finished up with NeuroICU, Dialysis, and 4B.

I loved the NeuroICU over at the taub, but I don't know a thing about the other units.

I happen to love Memorial Hermann in Med Center. I think they are fabulous. They seem to really care about retention and the staff patient ratios are within reasonable limits. Neuoscience is a tough floor but the highest patient load we are given is 6. They try to keep it at five. I work as a student nurse there currently. Not to sound like a commercial, but i think that Hermann is an invigorating and wonderful place for nurses. I know there are some bad staff and management, but I like to look for the people who are knowlegable and helpful and stick with them. The CNA's leave something to be desired and poor performance from them is tolerated on my floor. that is the worst thing I can say about working there.

Yeah, I hear nothing but good things about NICU at taub. Everyone that works there says they love it; that says a whole lot about the unit. The most I get about SICU is a shrug, and MICU sounds like slave labor!

as for the assistants, we've got a saying at taub: "The rn's are the real assistants."

I was thinking of working ICU over at herman in the med center. which unit do you suggest? I don't want anything intense or with high acuity. maybe long-term care kinda stuff, where i only have to take care of two pts. i definitely do not want to work on the floor and handle 6 or 7 pts! i was looking at memorial because it seemed like a nice place to work, and i just want to experience something different.

[Ghetto Supersta]

Originally posted by mattsmom81

Another RN at my hospital who had been working there for 7 years found out new grads were being hired on at $6 hr more than she made. She didn't retaliate towards the new hires, but did go right to the CEO (who said he had an 'open door policy')and GOT her raise, but made an enemy of the manager by jumping over her head. She was let go shortly after and I'm sure it was no coincidence.

Of course its not right, these management policies. It is one of the reasons I support unions. I work in quite a dysfunctional area I know, and also hope it's not as bad everywhere else. I've gotten quite cynical due to what I see go on here, I'm afraid.

I also feel part of this tactic involves the wish to run off the older staff, such as when a new manager comes in, she wants to 'start over' with 'her' people. This particular manager also brought over a whole bunch of nurses from her last job...and she favors them over the 'old' staff too. I've seen this before. And admin wonders why we have such high turnaround!!! No big surprise here...

This is what happens when you keep your salary hush-hush. Salary should be kept in the open, and if you find out you're behind, tell management. if they don't fix it, leave! Nurses shouldn't have to take this. People need us, not the other way around. It's time we started standing up for ourselves and getting the respect we deserve.

[geekgolightly, BSN, RN]

Originally posted by Ghetto Supersta

Yeah, I hear nothing but good things about NICU at taub. Everyone that works there says they love it; that says a whole lot about the unit. The most I get about SICU is a shrug, and MICU sounds like slave labor!

as for the assistants, we've got a saying at taub: "The rn's are the real assistants."

I was thinking of working ICU over at herman in the med center. which unit do you suggest? I don't want anything intense or with high acuity. maybe long-term care kinda stuff, where i only have to take care of two pts. i definitely do not want to work on the floor and handle 6 or 7 pts! i was looking at memorial because it seemed like a nice place to work, and i just want to experience something different.

all of the ICU's are high accuity over at Hermann. We have a burn unit that is supposed to be pretty top of the line with intensive two ot one or three to one patient care with a lower morbidity than other units.