nurselaur

I can't sure for sure what the apy is - but I do know it is significantly better than what the Lehigh Valley pays. For some reason, Lehigh's pay scale is way off from te Philly area. Not sure if the cost of living is cheaper - I can't imagine it is much lower. I got an offer at LVH and for a pool nurse they watnedto give me $25/hour. I thought that was ridiculous! THat is what a new grad nurse would get at most places. So - I would say to take the job!

Most places will pay you based on the 36 hours worked - FT usually refers tothe benefits you are entitled to. HEalthcare benefits, vacation time, etc. Unless it is part of an incentive program where they actually said you will be getting paid for 40 hours.

wow - you already got a lot of responses and I just wanted to give you a supervisors opinion. You did exactly the right thing. It's your supervisor that did not. She should never have been bullied into talking about that in front of you and NEVER should have admitted that she heard these complaints from you. THat puts you in the awkward position of being the "snitch". You were advocating for your patients regardless of if their complaints were valid or not. It is the supervisor's job to find out the details and help explain to the patients whether the nurse was doing the bes tthing to help or was being inappropriate. I don't know what else to say that will help because the damamge was already done - but keep doing what you are doing and give the best care to your patients that you can.