waicurn

Did you know all the major hospitals in Washington State get together to decide how much they all want to pay their nurses so they can suppress nurse salaries for the whole state?? We need to wake up and write letters and tell everyone we know!! Here is the letter I sent today. I want to encourage all of you to do the same! Feel free to copy and paste, add, modify. We need to show the politicians and those writing checks we are not idiots! Dear Governor Gregoire (also sent to Cantwell, Murray, Pedersen, Chopp, and WSNA) I'm a Registered Nurse with credentials in heart and lung transplant, dialysis and critical care and currently working at the University of Washington Medical Center on a intensive care unit. I was chatting with another nurse friend from out of state who was extremely surprised by the low RN wages in Washington State. He told me at UCSF (#7 on US News and World Report), nurse starting pay is $47.52, compares to $24.15 at UWMC. Even though the cost of living in San Francisco is 47% higher than Seattle according to CNN Money, their starting pay is at a whopping 78% higher than UWMC !! On the flip side of that, lets look at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. #4 on U.S. New & World Report. According to CNN Money, the cost of living in Cleveland Ohio is 14% LESS than that of Seattle. Their starting nurse pay in 2007 was $25.00/hr with $10,000 sign-on bonus! Higher than Washington State!! Is that why so many of my colleges are moving to a different state or leaving the nursing profession all together? If Washington State is unable to attract new nurses and keep its experienced nurses, the overall health of the state will be gravely affected. WSNA is about to start another round of negotiation with the University Medical Center. Please show your support to the nurses and the health care system in Washington State by advocating for higher and fairer wages and working condition! Thank you! xxx my real name =)

Did you know all the major hospitals in Washington State get together to decide how much they all want to pay their nurses so they can suppress nurse salaries for the whole state?? We need to wake up and write letters and tell everyone we know!! Here is the letter I sent today. I want to encourage all of you to do the same! Feel free to copy and paste, add, modify. We need to show the politicians and those writing checks we are not idiots! Dear Governor Gregoire (also sent to Cantwell, Murray, Pedersen, Chopp, and WSNA) I'm a Registered Nurse with credentials in heart and lung transplant, dialysis and critical care and currently working at the University of Washington Medical Center on a intensive care unit. I was chatting with another nurse friend from out of state who was extremely surprised by the low RN wages in Washington State. He told me at UCSF (#7 on US News and World Report), nurse starting pay is $47.52, compares to $24.15 at UWMC. Even though the cost of living in San Francisco is 47% higher than Seattle according to CNN Money, their starting pay is at a whopping 78% higher than UWMC !! On the flip side of that, lets look at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. #4 on U.S. New & World Report. According to CNN Money, the cost of living in Cleveland Ohio is 14% LESS than that of Seattle. Their starting nurse pay in 2007 was $25.00/hr with $10,000 sign-on bonus! Higher than Washington State!! Is that why so many of my colleges are moving to a different state or leaving the nursing profession all together? If Washington State is unable to attract new nurses and keep its experienced nurses, the overall health of the state will be gravely affected. WSNA is about to start another round of negotiation with the University Medical Center. Please show your support to the nurses and the health care system in Washington State by advocating for higher and fairer wages and working condition! Thank you! xxx my real name =)

If you want a job at UWMC or HVM, just keep pursuing them! If you don't hear back from them, it's most likely not because of you, but because they're short-staffed in every level!

Did you know all the major hospitals in Washington State get together to decide how much they all want to pay their nurses so they can suppress nurse salaries for the whole state?? We need to wake up and write letters and tell everyone we know!! Here is the letter I sent today. I want to encourage all of you to do the same! Feel free to copy and paste, add, modify. We need to show the politicians and those writing checks we are not idiots! Dear Governor Gregoire (also sent to Cantwell, Murray, Pedersen, Chopp, and WSNA) I'm a Registered Nurse with credentials in heart and lung transplant, dialysis and critical care and currently working at the University of Washington Medical Center on a intensive care unit. I was chatting with another nurse friend from out of state who was extremely surprised by the low RN wages in Washington State. He told me at UCSF (#7 on US News and World Report), nurse starting pay is $47.52, compares to $24.15 at UWMC. Even though the cost of living in San Francisco is 47% higher than Seattle according to CNN Money, their starting pay is at a whopping 78% higher than UWMC !! On the flip side of that, lets look at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. #4 on U.S. New & World Report. According to CNN Money, the cost of living in Cleveland Ohio is 14% LESS than that of Seattle. Their starting nurse pay in 2007 was $25.00/hr with $10,000 sign-on bonus! Higher than Washington State!! Is that why so many of my colleges are moving to a different state or leaving the nursing profession all together? If Washington State is unable to attract new nurses and keep its experienced nurses, the overall health of the state will be gravely affected. WSNA is about to start another round of negotiation with the University Medical Center. Please show your support to the nurses and the health care system in Washington State by advocating for higher and fairer wages and working condition! Thank you! xxx my real name =)

I'm curious about what the incident rate of complication from IABP removal really is now a days. It doens't seem too long ago when the nurses can't remove cvp lines, chest tubes, and all sorts of other things. I wonder if IABP is just the next thing, or is the frequency of complication so great that it's a totally incomparable. Anybody out there got the stats?

well, that is somewhat true, but don't count on it to hold as much water as you think it does. i had a pre-med degree before i got my cna,, emt, lpn, and now, rn. i had more "'advance' understanding" of a&p, micro, physics, organic chem, biology, calc... whatever else one might think i can brag about... but when i got into nursing, and i'm talking about cna, lpn and rn, i was humbled by the knowledge and skill of everyone around me. i think withholding such certification as tncc from the lpns is just a power-trip. tncc, like acls is not a license. when you have the certification, it does not mean you will run the show at a code or trauma. it just acknowledges that you've gone through the class and regurgitated the information on paper and the practice stations. nothing more, nothing less. i believe we should reward both the lpns and rns fairly what we've denmonstrated.