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I spoke with a recruiter about a position and was told the salary was non negotiable. Was told the hourly pay was based strictly on experience and that I was not getting low balled and asked if I needed time to think about it. I was kind of caught off guard and so I just told them that it was fine. Anybody been told a salary was non negotiable and found that not to be the case? This is at a big university hospital in a big city.

Hi all. I work in a cath lab as an RN and was told today by my boss that I am now in charge of submitting all the ACC (this is statistical information that you punch in on a computer, which I think you need to submit for accreditation) paperwork. This job used to be done by somebody fulltime. My hospital split from our former group so my boss was promoted and she was doing it. Now she claims she does not have enough time to do it with all of her other stuff so she is passing it on to me. I'm a new grad of about 9 months and don't really have much experience as to if this is normal or not. As for as I am concerned its out of my job description and if they want me to do it I should come with more money. Should I go to HR and see what they say?

Hi all. I know every unit gets short staffed from time to time and that's just part of nursing, but I'm just curious as to what others think of my current situation. I currently work in a cath lab with 2 nurses (myself included). IR only has one nurse and when she needs off they send one of the Cath lab nurses upstairs. This leaves the cath lab with only one nurse (me). I can be alone for numerous other reasons but this is the most common. If we only did one patient at a time it would be no big deal. However, my lab (ran by x ray techs) likes to bring down patient after patient and have them sit in a holding area with no staff. They can be held before and after the procedure. So a patient who was brought down and received a stent can sit with anticoags running and a sheath in their groin with nobody monitoring them because we are all in the lab doing the next case. This seems flat out wrong to me and I have brought this up many times but nothing has ever been done. Today I told them 1 nurse means 1 patient. I was told no because the lead tech says so. A normal day does not have many complications but they can occur at ANY time. Also a STEMI can come in at any time and add to the confusion. Just curious to any thoughts or comments on this. Thx.

I currently work in a small cath lab. One room lab with 3 nurses and 3 xray techs. One nurse just had her last day and her position has not been filled and according to my boss nobody has even interviewed for it in the 1.5 months its been posted. Because of this my on call time has increased greatly. While small we are also a pretty busy lab and probably could actually use 4 RNs. I know they also don't want to hire a new grad. One of the xray techs is also leaving to move to a hospital closer to her house, they have known she is leaving for 2 months but have been having trouble filling her position. During her last week they offered her a raise to stay. I am a new grad who has been working in this cath lab for past 7-8 months (same amount of time as the xray tech offered the raise). During this time I have become the main doctor's go to person to having the day run smooth (this has been told to me by 2 other employees). I could go on and on about all the problems of the department but will spare that. I think I deserve a raise and I know if I find another job they will be hurting badly. Do I stand a chance even asking? I don't want to sound threatening but I know they will have trouble filling the position. The other nurse has also informed me that if I leave she is leaving (she said she would go work registry while she finishes school). I also understand that I'm not going to get bumped 7 dollars to typical cath lab nurse pay but I just need something to make it worth my while. Any suggestions? Thoughts? Ways to go about it?

Hi, I'm a cath lab nurse in a relatively small lab. Our regular hours are 7a-330pm. We have 2 labs, but only run 1. We have 6 full time staff, 3 nurses and 3 xray techs. Currently we are in the process of training some, but when we are finished we are going to be on the call schedule of 2 weeks on 1 week off. I was just wondering what other people do for on call schedules/schedules in general. Does anybody do 12 hour days 3x a week? I assume hospitals that got a lot of labs going take way less call but I just want to see what else is out there. Also what is your time to be at the hospital when you do get paged in? We have 30 minutes which I believe is standard but I was wondering if anybody else has anything different.