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All HHC hospitals have the same pay scales and differential rates. Night shift differential at HHC is about $6k/year and BSN is $900. I'm not certain on experience pay, I know HHC gives $900/year per year of experience for HHC employees but I'm not sure about experience outside of HHC. It's either $500/year per year of experience up to 10 years or $900/year per year of experience up to 10 years.

What exactly was the med error? Do you have liability insurance? They'll provide you with a lawyer to defend you, if you don't have one you should pay out of pocket for one.

Do you mind sharing what hospital or health system this is?

All the city position salaries are listed on their website, starting salary now is roughly ~$75k for daytime and ~$80k for nights. HHC's salary is annual instead of hourly so it's tricky to figure out how that equates to an hourly salary.

Anyone with a pulse can find a job in a nursing home but you won't be getting any job offers from a hospital with only an ADN.

What's a real city hospital? There's many trauma 1 hospitals in brooklyn.

Upstate's pay is lower because the cost of living is lower, as you said you bought a house for $100k. You options are limited, either move or find a second job.

I also work at a HHC hospital and wonder the same thing. Some private hospitals in nyc offer better benefits such as shorter vesting time for the pension and higher pay to make up for not getting "free" health insurance. The main reason I think I might switch to private in the long run is because of the staffing at hhc facilities. It seems as if every department is understaffed which can make your job harder. The reasons why I may stay is because I like my co-workers and I can usually get the schedule I want without any problems.

Sounds like a scam, you should stay away. You can usually find something in the $35+hr range without much effort.

300 in one week? Quality is better than quantity, apply to 3-5 listings a day and make sure you write a coverletter that properly responds to the employer's requirement. Maybe you should contact your school's career center and have them take a look at your coverletter and resume.

That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard. You're held responsible to your highest license, so if anything were to go wrong with the patient you will be held responsible as an RN even though you're employed as a cna. Also no hospital will hire you as a cna because of what I just said.

If you're hurting for money you can find a job at a nursing home through an agency, it's pretty easy. I don't know who told you working at a nursing home hurts your career but they're wrong. I started out in a nursing home and got hired at a hospital and all my co-workers from the nursing home I worked at that I kept in contact with now work in hospitals...well at least the ones who wanted to work in a hospital. Some took supervisor positions or decided to become visiting nurses. Chances are you're being too picky and now it's time to just find a job. Either work at a nursing home, visiting nursing, a doctor's office or consider moving out of state to gain hospital employment. The longer you stay on the sidelines the less desirable you'll be to employers.

I don't think you're allowed to work as a nursing assistant if you have a RN license. I'm in a similar boat as Calvarez89 in that I'm a newly licensed RN enrolled in a BSN program. I earned my license in July and decided to take a position in a nursing home until I finish my bsn in Aug 2017. Calvarez89 you should consider the home care position if they're going to provide proper training if not I would pass on it. My first job offer after I got my license was a home care position and I turned it down after learning that training was going to be two days. It just seemed risky in my opinion.

Depends on your finances, if you don't want to rack up any debt then go with a CUNY ADN program followed by a rn to bsn program. I graduated from Medgar this May and I'm currently preparing for my boards. Overall it's a good program, it has the same headaches found in the other CUNY programs have but I didn't mind dealing with it since I manage to earn my ADN for free after grants (actually I ended up getting paid to do it since my grants were more than tuition). If you have money you should definitely just go with a private bsn program because it's very hard to get into any of the CUNY programs.

Well I don't have too much data to be able to compare MEC's program to others but I like it so far other than the fact that it's stressful but that seems to be the norm no matter what nursing school you go to. Something that I like about cuny's nursing programs as a whole is that you get more hands on clinical experience compared to the private schools. The class age seems to skew a little older compared to other nursing programs but I find it helpful since a lot of my classmates are second career students who already work in the healthcare field so I'm able to learn from their experiences. I really don't know what they look for in terms of grades or nln scores but just make sure you do well on your pre-reqs and the nln. If you haven't purchased an nln review book I suggest you do because a good chunk of the people are knocked out of the running because they get mediocre scores on it. As I said the nursing previously, classes are scheduled during the evening-night hours and the clinicals are on the weekend so if you're comparing cuny nursing programs you should keep that in mind.