Mary Eunice BSN, MSN, PhD

Mary Eunice has 11 years experience as a BSN, MSN, PhD and specializes in Research.

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1. VA Nurse Pay Scales

   Mary Eunice replied to kristykat's topic in Government

   AD refers to the payscale you are on. It stands for Administratively Determined and is used for misc job types, e.g., it is used for those who are doing a postdoc at the VA.

2. VA Nurse Pay Scales

   Mary Eunice replied to kristykat's topic in Government

   I think it really just depends on how well you write up your application and show how your experience satisfies the "nine dimensions" of nursing.

3. VA Nurse Pay Scales

   Mary Eunice replied to kristykat's topic in Government

   It took about 5-6 months. Though I think it typically doesn't take that long for most people (others I've spoken to said it was more like 2-3 months for them).

4. VA Nurse Pay Scales

   Mary Eunice replied to kristykat's topic in Government

   I think it is definitely possible you could start at Nurse/Grade 2, but I don't think it is guaranteed. Is there a job listing for the position? I ask because sometimes on those it will list the Grade on the payscale that the job falls under (b...

5. VA Nurse Pay Scales

   Mary Eunice replied to kristykat's topic in Government

   Forgot to add, when people say "Nurse 1/2/3", on the excel payscale spreadsheets that is labeled as "Grade 1/2/3.” So "Nurse 1, level 2, step 5" is "Grade 1 step 5" on the excel sheet (you can ignore the "level 2" bit).

6. VA Nurse Pay Scales

   Mary Eunice replied to kristykat's topic in Government

   Nurse 1 step 5 in Fresno is $92,918.

7. Alternative Options for Doctorate

   Mary Eunice replied to The Good Nurse's topic in Doctoral

   I know this question was asked a while ago and so OP may not need any advice, but I'll write my comment in case anyone else has a similar question and finds this thread. I got my PhD in Nursing recently and chose not to go the tenure-track assis...

8. Experience before PhD

   Mary Eunice replied to Tacomaboy3's topic in Research

   I had about three years of RN experience before I started my PhD in nursing. I also had a Masters degree in nursing and had worked at the University's School of Nursing as a grad research assistant. I was still working at the University while I ...

9. PhD in Nursing, MSN, BSN VA salary

   Mary Eunice replied to GoodAlwaysWins's topic in Government

   Oh that is *very* surprising they offered you Nurse 2. I mean, the requirements for Nurse 3 are: You have the doctoral degree and 15 years of nursing experience, so it should be an easy Nurse 3 offer imo. If you are not in a dire...

10. Breaking into Faculty Role

    Mary Eunice replied to Skips's topic in Educators

    From my experience the best way to get a faculty position is by doing a PhD. I did my PhD in Nursing and could have become an associate professor at that university (I was told I was guaranteed a position if I wanted it), but after spending...

11. PhD in Nursing, MSN, BSN VA salary

    Mary Eunice replied to GoodAlwaysWins's topic in Government

    You could start as a Nurse 3 or 4, depending on prior experience. Definitely would not start as a Nurse 2. After I got my PhD in Nursing I started at the VA as a Nurse 4, though a couple other PhD nurses I know who went to the VA started as Nurs...

12. Nurses in laboratories? Are there laboratory work for nurses?

    Mary Eunice replied to Zyrv's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in a laboratory setting as a "nurse research assistant" during my nursing career. It was for research projects being run at a university and involved consenting patients, taking their vitals while they were performing exercise, collecti...

13. Making 100k salary/ income as a nurse?

    Mary Eunice replied to workingot's topic in Career Support

    It has been almost ten years since I started my career as a nurse. A year ago I started a doing nursing research (I have a PhD in nursing) in a MCOL area. My salary is $180k (40/hrs weeks Mon-Fri) and has quite good benefits. Basically I write ...