Nursebarebari

If that amount of salary is very important to you, then advice them move to NY after graduation. Tell them to be prepare for the high taxes, rent in a decent area of Brooklyn in Brooklyn about 1700$ For 1 bedroom excluding utilities. My co-worker did few ot's and made 156 last yr, she paid back an additional of over 5k in taxes. I stopped doing OT's and enjoy my days off window shopping, at the beach, or take short vacations. My son is 21 and started working as a respiratory therapist, his salary including night differential is 71k and change, much less stress than nursing.

She has been a nurse for 25 yrs is what she meant

Easy to make 100k/yr in NY but cost of living is high. Base 80k, night diff 6k, experience 1.2k/yr, BSN 1.5k, certification 1.5k, per diem 54$/hr-56$/hr, 3% raise March 1st. Other hospitals maybe a little hig/low

Nurses sit down and gossip and toy with their phone? Where is this hospital pl? I would like to work there. And you being refered to as a nurses aid is because u were hired as a CNA regardless of your degree or diploma. And if you were hired as a paramedic, then u should sit down and have a discussion with the manager on exactly what your job description is.

OMG! If that happened to me, I will bring it up in our daily huddle and my nurse manager will certainly address it with "Dr"

As a nurse, the first thing I'm thankful for is my family being healthy. I'm also thankful for having a job and meeting my financial needs/wants.

Change location. Critical nurses are hot cake in NY, 55 to 60$ an hr. My employer pay 58.97$ for per diem critical care nurse.

OMG! Poor thing, I really don't know what to say but wish u all the best. I'm sure my fellow season nurses have tons of advise for u. Good luck!

Thank you guys for responding. After much negotiations, they've come up with 3-4 weeks orientation. We are still not happy about that.

If I m not working the next day, I cook. Otherwise, the family just ea what is available

The base for NP at my job is $104 and change plus 1k for every yr of experience.

Med/surge for 1-2 yrs.

Lol! That is what happens, anytime they float ICU nurse to our unit, they go crazy upon all their high skills. One punched out at 1020am instead of 730 when she floated to our unit.

Hello critical care nurses, so my employer is always short of nurses in ICU. They made the desicion to float us, med/surge nurses, to ICU when needed with 1 week orientation. They said they will assign us the lighter patients which nobody is buying. We are in conflict with them. I want to know how much orientation you need as a med/surge nurse to work in ICU. Thanks

CRNA base is 149,981$ from my job, I don't know about MDA

When my husband graduated as an accountant at the age of 25, it took him 5 yrs to find a job. So when I decided to back to schoo, I researched for the profession where the demand was very high. Nursing was that profession so started as a CNA and became a nurse in the yr 2000.

Let me know when you find that job pl.

I shower before and after. I have a colleague who showers on the job right after she clocks out before she goes home.

As per our union contract, we work every other weekend. We take turns getting off on the weekends that we are over staff. Night shift has total of 26 RNs, 8 RNs per shift so if 50% work on weekend there will be 12.5 RNs per weekend shift. Because of that each of us get extra one weekend off every other month. If few nurses are getting all weekends off, we will take that to the union.

I left an excellent job 14 yrs because of a nurse like that who always intimidate me and the new nurses. Nobody would ever attempt do that to me today. Unlike the new nurse I was 14 yrs ago, I speak up and don't allow bully's to come my way. If I were the person I am today, I wouldn't have left that job. I respect all my coworkers and get the same from them. If anyone is gossiping about a coworker, I don't answer or comment. If anyone is complaining to me about a coworker, I advice to speak to the person directly or go to management.

I work in a rough neiborhood with very rough patients. Most of our pts are drug addicts with multiple infectious diseases. Ask them what their pain level is from the scale of one to ten and they tell you it's 20. Even the ones with common headache ask for morphine or Percocet and get very upset if you give them Tylenol. And in the end, most of them get the narcotic for a mild pain or discomfort. It seems administration likes that to keep the patients coming to us instead of going to another hospital. I always say we should turn one of the units into a rehab unit.

You probably log on and forgot to log off and some pull the drugs under your name. Get a Do you have a union? Ask you Union rep, if u have one, request to see the camera for that time -hopefully there is one. We are able to pull drugs from any of the 22 units Pyxis in the facity that I work, you just add the patient name and that is it. I don't understand why director of security drove behind u when going home. That is very embarrassing. I wishing you all the best!

They stole mine twice, since then I started using the cheap ones provided by the facility. Nobody asks to borrow it anymore. My expensive one is in my locker just in case and thank God I never had to bring it out.

And some of them give only one or two days orientation and then throw you on the floor to care for 40 residents. A new grad with BSN I was prcepting had that experience in a SNF in NY. She had one day training in the classroom, the second day she work with an LPN who thought her nothing but rather had her medicate the residents-I don't know how an LPN with 40 residents could teach an RN everything in 8hrs. The third day she was sent to a different unit to work alone with 40 residents and 3 CNAs on 3-11pm shift. She was told to call her LPN preceptor for help in needed. She confessed to me that she was sure she made med errors. She said the CNAs did the 5 wound cares for her. She quit after 5 days when she asked for more training and was refused. Someone really has to look into SNF and do something about the ratios for nurses and the CNAs as well.

Thank you RN2B18, so it was Dorothea hopfer school of nursing monte took over when they bought the hospital. My mum (just retired from NYU a couple of years ago) went to that school over 40 yrs back and she was just telling me about the transition last night.