EDRNBob

Hi everyone. I'm a military veteran who has been trying to get into an RN position with the VA for a short time now, and I was browsing current openings and came up with a question. Every RN job posting that I've seen has a section on how grade is determined. For example, My question is pretty simple. Suppose I accept a job with the VA, and I have three years experience, but don't yet have a BSN. This would mean I begin my career with the VA at the grade of a Nurse I, Level 3 (see the first underlined section in the quote box). If I finish my BSN three months after taking the job with the VA, do I automatically get bumped to Nurse II, since I now meet that criteria (see the second underlined section in the quote box)? And if I then finish my MSN another year later, do I again get bumped up - this time to Nurse III? Again, based on the information given on the matter of grade determination, it seems pretty black and white that I would at that point meet the criteria (see the third underlined section). The reason I'm asking is because, while it seems pretty cut and dry, it also seems too good to be true that I could very feasibly enter a career with the VA at a given salary, then see a bump of nearly $25,000 in my salary less than two years later, by completing my BSN shortly after being hired (bump #1), and then starting and completing my MSN ~18 months later (bump #2). But is that actually how it works?

Saying "men get paid more than women" is a lot different from saying "two new grads hired as peers into the same residency at the same hospital get paid differently because one has a member." This survey can only prove the former, which is entirely irrelevant.

Whether "men get paid more than women" isn't the issue. The issue is whether two people hired into the same job, at the same facility, with the same experience and credentials, get job offers for the same amount. Anything that happens after that initial offer (negotiation, etc) is irrelevant, and there is virtually no study that proves this happens, ever. Saying "men get paid more than women" is a lot different from saying "two new grads hired as peers into the same residency at the same hospital get paid differently because one has a member." This survey implies the latter.