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I work in open heart and over the last 2 weeks, i have called over 175 hospitals including hawaii and alaska asking them the following questions: 1. Does your hospital still provide you with your scrubs or do you purhase and laundry your own? (Our hospital is trying to do this) 2. Do you have a heart program and do you pay speciality pay for doing hearts? 3. How much do you pay for call? All of the hospitals still provide scrubs except for 9 and 4 use the scrub machine. Of all the Heart ORs, almost all of them pay at least 10%more for doing hearts. Call pay ranged from $2.00 to 3.00/hr. Duke is paying $10.00/hr call pay with a $40.00/shift speciality pay. I work in East Tennessee and everyone was making more money than us. In California, one nurse said she was a regular staff OR nurse and she was making $45.00/hr and getting 1/2 time for call. (that is 22.50/hr for call) In minnesota, their nurses where making an average of 26/28/hr. Union hospitals paid more. If you have some information please forward to me at [email protected] I hope this was helpful. :cool: :)

i am thinking of traveling, i work in CVOR. I would love to hear about your experiences, good or bad. Any information that you have, i would love to share. Email address is [email protected]