Nurse Tech job at Methodist

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Does Methodist have a nurse tech program like Baptist?

What are the requirements?

What is the starting pay?

Can you work PRN?

Thanks

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Cardiac, ICU.

Yes, but they are now only allowing techs to work one 8 hour shift per pay period. The pay is 12.25.

Try St. Francis. Pay is $15.

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Specializes in Float.

Plus if you work nights you get shift diffs...also on weekends :)

St. Francis will hire you after only one semester of nursing classes.

The Med I think is also $15/hr.

I think Methodist does bump you to $15 when you are closer to graduation (last semester maybe?)

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Specializes in Float.

crnasomeday - do you know if St. Francis ever raised the new grad pay?

Any other salary changes around memphis lately? shift diffs? better weekend options? where are the best opportunities? We haven't discussed this lately on this board :)

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Cardiac, ICU.

New grad pay is 20.80 at St Francis with $1 bedside diff.

No benefits pay is 28.50. The shift diffs for evening, night and weekends are $3.75. They are set to go to $4.25 this month though.

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I heard through the grapevine that St. Francis was in talks about going union. Any truth to that?

I know that The Med will be giving up operations/management to another hospital system.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Cardiac, ICU.

I hadn't heard that.

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wait - am i understanding this correctly? nurse techs can only work so much during any given pay period? i figured it was more like work as much as you want, not a cap at 8 hours per pay period. or is that just for one hospital?

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Specializes in Float.

I think that is maybe just Methodist. St. Francis is work a minimum 8 hrs per pay period to stay on payroll. Work as much as you want, just no OT (HR may tell you different, but managers will tell you that) Baptist is the same I think too.

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I don't know how many hours nurse tech can work at medthodist, but I know that nurse externs can only work 8hrs per/pay period because they have to many externs there. I just got out of the extern title and into RN intern at Lebonheur.

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Oh, LeBonheur's "nurse tech " is a position that they created applies to the people who have graduated already and fail boards. RN intern is when you have graduated, but "Nurse tech" is when you have taken Borads, fail and are re-taking it. I think that you can only stay in the nurse tech position for like 45 or 60 days and you pay rate also goes down.

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Specializes in Dialysis.
I heard through the grapevine that St. Francis was in talks about going union. Any truth to that?

I know that The Med will be giving up operations/management to another hospital system.

As part of a national agreement signed between Tenet and SEIU Tenet agreed to allow the union to talk with nurses at selected hospitals nationwide, St Francis being one of them. Not sure if they picked St Francis because they were confident the nurses wouldn't unionize or maybe they were trying to shake up the local labor market. Baptist and Methodist are involved in a lawsuit alleging they conspired to suppress wages and that lawsuit was brought by SEIU. Tenet is also involved in a battle in California with the California Nurses Association and they were seeking to replace the CNA with SEIU and were offering nurses 35% pay increases if they switched unions.

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