Nursing Schedule and Salary in Mcallen

[guy with a dream]

Hello Everyone, I will try to be straight and to the point.

I am starting nursing school (specifically to be Registered Nurse), and I am wondering what the salary to be expected can be when I graduate as well as hours etc.

Specifically what I dream of is working 2 days a week (12+ hours), consecutively (E.G, mon-tues, or wed-thurs, etc). And making atleast 25,000 dollars a year doing that (any more would be great of course!)

I want this because I plan on getting married and living in Monterrey Mexico which is about 2 to 3 hours from mcallen and just driving up here to mcallen to work the two days and head back. For example, if I got the mon-tues shift, I would leave monterrey monday early morning, get here and work, and head back home tuesday evening when shift is up. It could be night shift as well (not preferred), that doesn't matter. So long as it is two days consecutively.

I know I am just starting the nursing program next semester, but I am wondering if that is a feasible plan to do once I graduate? I dont want to hope for something to get it slammed against me later. . .

thanks for any help or tips, especially from RN's currently living and working in mcallen!

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

Pretty much nothing in hospitals. You'll need to look into home health, nursing homes, and agency work.

[xkristinx]

Just found out some info after speaking to a recruiter at Doctor's Hospital at Renaissance, they have a residency (aka new grad program) and their patient/nurse ratios are low (similar to here in cali; 5:1 med surg, 4:1 tele, 2:1 ICU, etc). So, there is hope in RGV!

[guy with a dream]

Hello ! so this is weird and random, but i remember posting on here and wanted to give myself some closure :)

I've finished the nursing program at a school i now hate, and actively advise people not to go to, and i'm now working as an RN on a telemetry/stepdown unit at a hospital in the RGV.

I'm getting married this summer and am working my schedule out with another nurse who ALSO lives in Mexico and just comes to work, so that we work our days back to back and then have 4-6 days off at home.

Livin' the Dream!

By the Grace of God.

:)