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

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 over 24 months. That is what my hospital system does....

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

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 or one of your DEAR ONES need to be admitted to a m...

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 Missouri is allegedly low.

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 of objectivity is non-sense. Using the passive voic...

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 RNs. The great majority of the RNs during my clini...

"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 offering few and far in between hiring opportunie...

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 time and professional expertise by giving me their ...

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 educational institutions award the same degree. A...

The data out there says otherwise. Look up research by Aiken et al demonstrating that hospitals with higher ratio of BSN educated nurses have lower patient mortality rates. Sorry to break your bubble, but more education does make a better nurse.

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 think that we will see a significant BSN differential...

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 experienced nurses deserve (and get) higher pay for...

"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 all the different pay rates.

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 system @ 20.80/hr. I am super excited to have a job (...

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 graduation, right? Thankfully for me I saw the ligh...

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, sick days and all the other goodies and your hour...

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 correct. generally, there is a lot more lifting, p...

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 different to warrant a concern for losing any nursin...

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 some extra hours to your study routine. OB is a pain ...

"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 those who have." This is a rather radical statement....

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 applicants. They categorically said no, that they...

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 all and I will tell you: if I were admitted to my un...

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 the ADN program at the St Louis Community College ...

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