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The following are government statistics from October 2002 Contemporary Long Term Care. They represent average national salaries. Nursing salaries overall have remained stagnant in the past 10 years. Nurse's actual earnings have increased steadily f...

I think what we can do about it is educate ourselves and others about the stagnation of wages issue in nursing. Yes the starting wage in many areas seems comparable...but a nurse's wage will quickly stagnate. My non-nursing friends were shocked to ...

Government statistics regarding nursing salaries. October 2002 Nursing salaries overall have remained STAGNANT in the past 10 years. Nurse's actual earnings have increased steadily from 1983 - 2002 BUT "real earnings" have been FLAT since 1991. (re...

It is not so much the starting wage in nursing that is horrible - it is the fact that your salary will stagnate and you will forever be making within 1000 - 3000 dollars more than a new graduate. The starting salary seems reasonable - I started at t...

Your wage as a professional nurse will also vary greatly with location. After 18 years of nursing I am now making 24.00 per hour. I've also found that if you leave the hospital for clinic work, school nursing, some insurance jobs, etc. you have...

Nursing Salary Facts - You need to know! The following are government statistics from October 2002 Contemporary Long Term Care. They represent average national salaries. Nursing salaries overall have remained stagnant in the past 10 years. Nurse's ...

The information was in an article in Contemporary Long Term Care Magazine from 10/02. However, it was Secretary Thompson of HHS who made most of the comments and it might carry more clout if you could get it from the Congressional Record. I belie...

Actually it wasn't meant to start a teacher/nursing war. Secretary Thompson was pointing out that most people are aware of the inequity of teacher's wages...however, very few people are aware that nurses are struggline also. I agree with should mak...

I went into nursing thinking I could help people - make a difference in the person's life or their families. Unfortunately, the tasks, politics of healthcare, etc. make it difficult to feel like you are making a difference.

I've only refused to float to a specific unit once. Instead of forcing me to go to that unit - I was pulled to another. I was working SICU and they wanted to pull me to the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit where I would have a full patient assignment. ...

I'm not from New Jersey but wanted to express a few things: a) Initially the salary for nursing looks pretty good. Unfortunately it tends to stagnate and you end up maybe gettting a 2 - 3% raise per year. Health and dental benefits for nursing ha...

I'm not from New Jersey but wanted to express a few things: a) Initially the salary for nursing looks pretty good. Unfortunately it tends to stagnate and you end up maybe gettting a 2 - 3% raise per year. Health and dental benefits for nursing ha...

Have you put your concerns in writing to the administrator and DON? If not - do so. If you don't get a response, consider sending another letter to the Board of the Nursing Home. Does your facility have a grievance policy? Make sure your me...

Have you put your concerns in writing to the administrator and DON? If not - do so. If you don't get a response, consider sending another letter to the Board of the Nursing Home. Does your facility have a grievance policy? Make sure your me...

One nurse mentioned on her unit they did a Code Pink - when a MD was throwing a tantrum - all the nurses on the unit came and stood around the MD and stared evilly at him/her. She said it worked!

http://www. salary.com 's income numbers are quite a bit higher than what I've been told during interviews in my area. Wages and cost of living vary so much from region to region - so make sure you look at both prior to making any decisions. In ad...

It sounds like they've made some positive changes - codes are truely a team effort. I remember hating to intubate the baby and an one of our docs giving me grief about it during the intubation testing. He thought the baby was much easier to tube ...

Please check into why the catheter is being changed every month. We no longer change catheters every month - it increases the risk of infection. We change catheters if we need to get a urine culture, if the catheter feels granuley or it there are...

Wow it sounds like ACLS has really changed - don't they do a mega code anymore? I remember going to stations - intubation station, EKG strip station, written test station and mega code station. You needed to pass each station to pass. We didn't...

$60.oo for 2 year licence in North Dakota (RN) However, I moved back to ND in October had to pay $60.00 and then had to fork out another 60.00 to cover the next two years in December. Once again ....my timing is off. Failure to renew your licensure ...

Actually, this case is being brought by many of the same lawyers who brought the tobacco suit. One is a law professor at some college. These lawyers are all riding high based on the millions of dollars they received for their litagation in the tob...

I am a conservative but am against anyone forcing their religious beliefs on someone or ridiculing another person's beliefs. I don't understand why an A & P classes needs to focus on religion - it sounds like the professor has problem. Both th...

I also saw the 60 minutes piece which changed my mind about the red cross. In addition the 9 - 11 controversary only strengthened my view point. I am also shocked by how much the administrators of the Red Cross make - yet depend on volunteer nurse...

Actually it sounds like you are doing well - we usually have 1 nurse for 24 residents and 3 aides. So you are carrying a heavier load then we are.

We've used a similiar product for 2 years - product called gerihips. No resident wearing the product has fractured a hip yet. We struggle with some of our frequent fallers refusing to wear them : (