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  1. How much do you make as a tech?

    RCBR posted a topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Let's compare hourly pay. Please state you city: St. Louis, MO: $12.75 (plus differential for

  2. Nursing jobs with a sign on bonus question

    RCBR replied to imapsychrn's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    My guess is that the bonus will be paid in bi-weekly installments over the two year period. They will divide the bonus over the number of pay periods and credit the amount on each of your paycheck...

  3. To tuck it in or not - that is the question

    RCBR posted a topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Do you tuck in your scrubs? Would you? Should you? Can

  4. Burned out and hate nursing

    RCBR replied to RN1023's topic in Health, Stress Management

    All you fellow RNs there belittling, trashing medical-surging nursing, encouraging people to leave, praising nursing specialties with minimal patient/family interaction... so sad. How about when YOU...

  5. Best City to Work/ Have a Career in

    RCBR replied to Junebug0710's topic in General Nursing

    Not St Louis or anywhere in MO. New grad pay here starts @ 19.50 with the best hospitals (Washington University's Barnes Jewish) paying $20.80. Very, very depressing, even though cost of living in...

  6. Charting...what to say?

    RCBR replied to chrisrn24's topic in General Nursing

    Don't get too hung up on the "I" thing. There are much worse charting sins you can commit. Take your cue from physician notes; they use "I" all the time, as pointed by another poster here. The issue...

  7. Losing respect for nursing students

    RCBR replied to kjnsweets's topic in General Nursing

    I am RN now but I could go back a couple of months to my nursing school days and start a thread in the same vein about the view point from the other side: nursing students losing respect for licensed...

  8. New nurse with job that is causing anxiety and depression

    RCBR replied to nurseGi's topic in First Year After Licensure

    "It is rough out there right now and most units who are hiring now and especially who are hiring new grads are less than stellar themselves." So very true. The good units have low or no tunover, thus...

  9. What Kind of Patients Do You LIKE Most?

    RCBR replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The ones who turn off the TV, the cell phone, the laptop, put down the book and magazine and suspend the third party conversation when I walk into the room. In summary, those patients who respect my...

  10. Comparing A Nurses' Salary

    RCBR replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    Are you for real??? Universities award bachelor degrees. Community colleges award associate degrees. They are not the same degree. Please approach reality. I cannot believe you think that 2 and 4 year...

  11. Comparing A Nurses' Salary

    RCBR replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    They are not equivalent, but more education means more qualification and more qualification should mean more pay, in my books at least. Now, even though that is what I think is fair, I do not...

  12. Comparing A Nurses' Salary

    RCBR replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    My point is that your point that exact same job should equal exact same pay ("Why should you get paid more if you're doing the exact same job?") doesn't hold water, as even you acknowleged that more...

  13. Comparing A Nurses' Salary

    RCBR replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    "Why should you get paid more if you're doing the exact same job?" Good point, if it was true. Pick any 10 staff nurses in any single hospital floor. They are all doing the exact same job but they are...

  14. Comparing A Nurses' Salary

    RCBR replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    I am in St Louis, MO and will start as a new grad next month @ $21.00/hr working full time in acute care for the largest health system in the region. I also got an offer from the number 2 hospital...

  15. Nobody told me that after graduation...

    RCBR replied to smclean27's topic in General Nursing

    Your story is so sad. I really feel for you because I was in the exact same boat. Full-time dedicated BSN student in a top NS with good grades = guaranteed GN offer from major teaching hospital upon...

  16. Am I being offered a fair pay?

    RCBR replied to AussiRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    When you mention hourly pay you have to specify if you are getting benefits otherwise the comparisons are meaningless. Remove health benefits, pension deductions, disability insurance, paid vacations,...

  17. Certified Nursing Assistants - The Nurses think we have it so easy.

    RCBR replied to hfullerCNA's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    it seems that the point of the original post was simply to demonstrate that the role of the cna is more physically demanding than that of the rn. having worked on both roles, i think that is entirely...

  18. Signed a contract for ICU, being put on IMC unit

    RCBR replied to Nur-C's topic in Travel

    IMC is critical care. Are you sure your contract specifically says you will work in an ICU instead of critical care? Have you worked in an IMC/step down unit? Honestly, those two units are not THAT...

  19. Year one COMPLETE

    RCBR replied to NoKoward's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Do the same thing you did on your first year. If it worked then it should work now for your second year. Although, things get a bit harder on the second year (more content), so you may have to add...

  20. Why many new grads don't find jobs....

    RCBR replied to MN-Nurse's topic in General Students

    "I finished CNA clinicals". I didn't even know there was such a thing as a CNA clinical. "There is absolutely no reason for hiring managers to choose new grads who never worked in healthcare over...

  21. Hospitals only hiring BSN's?

    RCBR replied to txhopeful13's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    It all depends where you live. I work for the biggest hospital nerwork in St Louis, MO. When I got hired earlier this earlier I asked HR if having a BSN instead of an ADN conferred any advantage to RN...

  22. Stressed ER LPN

    RCBR replied to libran1984's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I hear you libran1984. You have my sympathy. I am an SN, graduating with a BSN in few months. I work as a tech at an acute care unit. We have 24 RNs and 2 LPNs on our floor. I have worked with them...

  23. I think I've decided to go the ASN route

    RCBR replied to ryanalice's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Here in St Louis tuition for the cheapest BSN program (the one I am doing, at a state university) cost 32K, and that is just for the nursing courses; it assumes you have all your prereqs. Tuition for...

  24. UCLA New Grad Summer 2012 program

    RCBR replied to sallyp911's topic in California Nursing

    My instructors/references are all on spring break. This is the worst possible time to have to track 5 of them

  25. Critique my cover letter! (seriously, rip this baby apart)

    RCBR replied to woahmelly's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    woahmelly: from somebody who, in a previous life, was involved in corporate hiring: 1) i agree that it is far better to address the hr manager by name. but what are the chances you will get a name...