dkhunt

No, like I said around $10.50. I was a care partner for sentara in January 2011 and started at $9.93, but I believe it went up to $10.50 now.

Ciale I am in the EXACT SAME situation as you. I am also an ED tech and graduate in a little over 4 weeks. The ED offered me a job starting in the beginning if June. I do know as a tech I work my butt off because there is ambition to learn more and do more for once I am a nurse. Many techs I work with don't have the same ambition or they feel as if they get ran around so much, it won't matter because no one appreciates the work they do. They constantly need to hear "thanks for your help" and "I really appreciate you helping me." Now don't get me wrong, these are absolutely necessary and should be encouraged, but you should still want to help your teammates out even if everyone isn't always praising you-- ultimately it's about the patient. They are also some techs who are only around to help when there is a trauma or a really exciting rescue. But when it's time to clean an incontinent patient waiting for an admission room or place granny on a bedpan, they are nowhere to be found. They feel as if those tasks are beneath them. I can only imagine how this is going to be once I am a nurse working with these same techs who may think they know more than me....This should be INTERESTING.

A care partner will make the minimum but if you work in ICU they are called ICU Techs and in the ED they are called ED Techs. The techs will have extra training and most are paramedics, EMT ect, so they are ACLS certified and some are PALs certified too. Extra certifications means extra money. But these are at Sentara facilities that I'm basing this off of.

I was a care partner in 2011 and I started out making $9.93 with no experience. Now I believe it's about $10.50 or so. With experience, it wouldn't be more than $12 an hour unless you are in critical care and ACLS certified. Hope this helps.