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Just for context if it helps, here are the differentials for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Note: I believe that they haven't gone up in over a decade!! When you factor in inflation, night and evening workers are not nearly being compensated as well as th...

Please follow format if you can, then add comments. Thank you! Location: St. Louis, MO Facility: Large Teaching Hospital Role: Staff-Nurse Evenings: $2.40 (Defined as 5pm-11pm) Nights: $2.90 (Defined as 11pm-7am) Weekends: $2.40 (Defin...

My suggestions include the following: Try to schedule all you week's shifts in a row (3?) and then do nothing but eat, sleep and work for those 3 shifts. Have pre-cooked (frozen?) meals all ready at home, don't have a dog or a BF (or a child!) to ta...

Yes, I'm sure they do have good motivations and probably are able to make use of some of the info. Still, there were a fair number of multiple choice questions that were so vague or simply not well-written, that I felt the answers they received coul...

After passing NCLEX, I received a NCSBN survey in the mail "on the practice of newly licensed RNs". It was long and tedious, and a lot of the questions seemed a little poorly or generically worded such that it was difficult to imagine what real use ...

Old thread, but timeless issue. I worked at BJC (Barnes-Jewish Hospital) for several years but now work for SSM (DePaul). They both have wonderful things going for each of them. But my comment is regarding their defined contribution savings plans. ...

I will graduate this month (Dec, 2010) from STLCC and will start in January at SSM/DePaul @ $20.00/hr.

Check out these 2 pages. I think you might find the answers there. If not, maybe search out the Illinois state BON webpage. http://www.pr.mo.gov/nursing-nlc.asp https://www.ncsbn.org/nlc.htm Good luck!

I'm still a nrsg student but i've been a tech on an acute care gen med floor for 2 years. I think if you subtract the the surgery patients from med-surg, that should give you a pretty good idea of what you have. We see lot's of patients with renal ...

That's great to hear, about the fellowships for ADN's - I was wrong. Can you say anything more about them? What facilities? What kind of fellowships? Are these places that these students were already working at during school? Thanks.

Gee... I'm in my 3rd semester at Forest Park (1 to go!) but they've been talking to us about applying for jobs since the beginning. They've gotten us to finish resumes already and they've emphasized the usefulness of working prn as techs and gettin...

Way to go - Congratulations!!!

There sure is at BJH! I was in a clinicals group in Fall '09 which had a presentation from BJH human resources and they said as much. I can't remember the amount, but I think the BSN premium over ADN was 25 or 50 cents/hour. Ooops! I posted the a...

I'm reacting to various posts I've seen emphasizing nursing's perspective (vs. medicine's) and how the advanced degrees (NP, DNP) further learning and the science of the nursing perspective. I however, with total respect and appreciation for the nur...

A NP, or Nurse Practitioner = A Nurse that practices a little medicine. No? It's not simply a nurse that practices a little more nursing than a nurse, is it?

What is your logic for not working for a hospital? It would be a much better experience for you educationally as well as for getting a job once you graduate. BJH is constantly looking for NS students to hire as student nurse techs, SNTs. And they ...

Yeah, I'm at Forest Park and it's been 48 for the last year or so. Let's see, that makes: 60 + 2(40) + 2(48) = 236 students per year Wow, that's a lot of new nurses every year! Actually, I'm not sure how many are in the graduating classes each year...

Starting hourly wage for a PCT at BJH is about $9.80, not including difs. Of course the experience is priceless. :nuke:

Ditto!

I agree with your comments on your A&P teacher, a dedicated and challenging professor, although I understand he is a Dr. of Chiropractic. He has also been a professor of anatomy at Logan College of Chiropractic.

ha! 3 hours a day for half the school year!! i think you're ready :) Good luck!

In a word, "Yes!", go to the hospital's human resources dept. Regardless of who you speak with first, security guard, receptionist, whatever, the question/statement is "I'd like to find out about talking to the nurse recruiter." That's it. Oh yeah...

I'm confused - Did you still make it through Barnes' ASN program? What program will you be joining at U of M?