Practical Nursing - salary raise?

[sallyk]

Hey there,

I'm a college student looking into practical nursing. I know $25 an hour is good money but I was wondering how many years of experience I need and how difficult it is to raise my salary? When I mean raise I mean raise an extra $10-$15. I'm not really a school person, I'm more hands on and the type who likes to work so I'm not interested in the doing the bridging to RN program so please don't mention that. Would I need any extra training? If so, is this training paid? Is it likely that I'd be able to get a big raise like I want? How does it work?

Thanks,

Sally

[pedspnp]

Are you serious

[sallyk]

Are you serious

Uh... yes

[Nibbles1]

Maybe if you started your own private duty nursing service you might get that.

[pedspnp]

Please check out other posts on salary expecting that type of raise is unheard of

[pedspnp]

You need too take off your rose colored glasses

[loriangel14, RN]

You wouldn't get that much as a PN.

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

Not a realistic salary objective as a practical nurse in the USA even with decades of experience and specialized credentials $35-$40/hr. Not when LPNs generally start out at $14-18/hr in much of the US (maybe $20 as a base in more metropolitan areas) raises are often 1-3% (5% is the most I've ever seen) (.14-.45/hr annually) if you even get a salary increase

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

Not a realistic salary objective as a practical nurse in the USA even with decades of experience and specialized credentials $35-$40/hr. Not when LPNs generally start out at $14-18/hr in much of the US (maybe $20 as a base in more metropolitan areas) raises are often 1-3% (5% is the most I've ever seen) (.14-.45/hr annually) if you even get a salary increase

This...

Depending on your area, you may get $25/hr, but that is after YEARS of experience...and negotiating to make this amount, or pool rate or "specialty rate" at least in my experience; I live in a major metro area and started out making 20/hr in home care, and worked at a rehab hospital making $23 for base pay pool rate. Granted the area I live has had a nursing surplus for years. At my last LPN jobs I worked in home care as a vent/trach home care nurse I made 25-26/hr and as a independent contractor at a medical daycare I made 25/hr.

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Moved to the Nursing career forum

I know you asked no one to mention it, bridging to RN, but realistically if you want the pay you are asking about you may find you have to do it

[WookieeRN, BSN, MSN, RN]

Hey there,

I'm a college student looking into practical nursing. I know $25 an hour is good money but I was wondering how many years of experience I need and how difficult it is to raise my salary? When I mean raise I mean raise an extra $10-$15. I'm not really a school person, I'm more hands on and the type who likes to work so I'm not interested in the doing the bridging to RN program so please don't mention that. Would I need any extra training? If so, is this training paid? Is it likely that I'd be able to get a big raise like I want? How does it work?

Thanks,

Sally

I foresee that being pretty difficult without getting your RN. Just being honest.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I know $25 an hour is good money but I was wondering how many years of experience I need and how difficult it is to raise my salary? When I mean raise I mean raise an extra $10-$15.

As an LPN in the US, an extra $10 to $15 per hour on top of a $25/hour wage would be $35 to $40 per hour.

Let me give it to you straight: you are not going to earn $40 per hour as an LPN here in the US. If you want to earn that kind of money, you will need to become an RN.

Also be cognizant that many RNs in the US do not even earn $25/hourly.