WAstateRN

focus on weak areas ......

Good Luck.

The corporate world of healthcare is exploiting nurses for sure because we have so many nurses here, locally produced and hospital sponsored foreign nurses esp. filipinas.

Apart from money issue.....education is always beneficial and you might get paid more because of your 17 yrs of experience. You can also be charge nurse with RN. The above pay scale is for new grad...Don't get discouraged though. I still think for new grad it is no where near than compared to living expenses in Seattle.:angryfire

Most of the community colleges (WCC, EVCC, SCC, and others as well) as well as UW, SU, SPU, dont have waiting list.

The problem here is if we can get enough nurses' interest. I live in Seattle and I definitely think we should do something. Lets call all WA nurses in these forum and email friends/classmates etc. When does WSNA contract expires. Your help will be awesome. How can we recruit nurses go against WSNA. Ideas more than welcome. I am willing to do anything. We need to change the system.

How can we shake WSNA if they are not doing the job. There must be a way. I am new to this career but I dont want to get old without anything happening. Right now, I am not a member of WSNA...I just felt like not paying the membership. How can we bring the NNOC. We need to stand up for ourselves....nursing is hard job and all unforseen legal issues we have to carry on our shoulder.

I recently got my RN license and I am in Seattle metro area. The nursing pay in Seattle is rock bottom compared to other metro cities and the living cost is as high as bay area in California. The starting pay at children's hospital in Seattle is $22.72, Evergreen in Kirkland is 23.98, Harborview/Swedish is $24. The living expense is sky high and the pay is so low. Outside Seattle area is pretty low...starts from $22 and up to $23.84 the max like in Spokane, Tricities, South Puget...I have called a lot of hospitals and talked with their HR and pretty disappointing pay scale. My friend in bay area starts minimum from $35 for new grad. The living expense is as same. Right now for 1 bedroom apartment in downtown Seattle, I am paying $1400 for rent + I have to pay utilities. If I stay in suburb of Seattle, the traffic is so bad...it is like stop and go...action throughout the freeway. I just feel WA state hospitals need to learn from California and even Oregon. Why doesn't the nurses union aggressively protest against these low paying jobs in WA state. Why are nurses so mum??? We need more proactive nurses against this type of negligence against nurses. I am pulling my head because I have to pay $55000 of student loan + oter credit card bills and that low minimum wage supporting my family. Forget about saving!!!:sasq:

:oNo one out there to help a newbie. Nurses really eat their young!! lol:o

We did it...Wizard100 You initiated this thread and finally it is over. Thanks for your support. Congratulations!! iel21, congrats for getting the job. narsingboy, dont give up. keep praying!!

i passed the nclex!!!! omg, i cant believe!!! i have been checking the bon like crazy and just saw my name with license # thank you all for keeping my spirit high!!! to everyone who did not pass, please try again---> you will pass next time around. above all, thanks god for listening!!!!! wastatern is a real rn now.

Everyone, please pray for me as well. Thanks in advance.

I know how you feel. I am going crazy and felt so sick to my stomach after I walked out of the testing center. I sat in my car and cried for almost 20 mins. I had 2 hrs drive back home and I almost had an accident as I thinking about the test whole time. I was there for 3 hrs. My test ended at 96. If I had 265, no way I would have finished on time. I also got about 10-12 drugs out of which I know I got 2 right and 3 were drug SATA. Rest of the drugs were new to me as well. Hope those are the try out ones. I got 2 triage questions and lots of therapeutic communication as well ob/peds questions. I have such a bad headache now.

You never feel prepared for this test. I would suggest not to wait too long after you graduate. Everything will be fresh right after you graduate. I graduated in August. I took long break, vacation and travelled asia. I came back and had to take care of personal stuffs. I got serious to study in mid November and actually studied seriously from december 1st only. I have been studying, living and sleeping with my laptop and 7 NCLEX book. I have studied crazy this 27 days. Now, tomorrow is my test and I wished I had taken test right after graduation in september when everything was fresh in my mind and then take vacation. I would say do not delay than mid february.

Tomorrow is my day and I feel I should reschedule but its too late. I am really scared. Tomorrow is my first time and I dont know why I waited so long. Please, keep me in your prayers. I take the test at 8am yikes.....I am not a morning person at all. Hopefully, I can go to sleep. I am super anxious....Hope by morning I will be ok. Thanks everyone for your well wishes.