puppycat

:balloons: :smiley_aa CONGRATS to the New RN :balloons: :smiley_aa And Yes, Let HIS Will be done...

I graduated last May with a BSN and my salary is $39,000/ $19.00 per hour before taxes (there is a no overtime policy in my hospital). I don't consider that a very good salary. The hospital just hired 4 experienced nurses (all with over 6 years experience in critical care) for $24.00/hour-still not a decent salary. Whether the salary is good or not really does depend on the area of the country you are working at. And, my housing payment runs around $1500.00 per month, utilities are around $350.00/mo.....so, not much of a cost of living argument can be made for the low salaries in Texas

just trying to think picture how #2 above would go down :imbar

Richardson Regional is also looking for Med-Surg nurses w/ experience. The pay for new grads is the Dallas/Collin County area is $19.00-$19.50 per hour (regardless if BSN or ASN); so I suspect that with your experience, you'd get about $20.50-$21.00/hr--Don't know if you consider that good pay or not?

Re: Group One- Found this on the bottom of page 3 of this forum ( and there's another one just below this one) https://allnurses.com/forums/f175/group-one-background-checks-texas-108647.html

Seen it posted in our Nurse Manager's office at an Oak Cliff/Dallas Teaching Hospital, lived it and left it... [Mind you this is still going on] Also included in the memo is no pay for OT (that meant NO PAY AT ALL) if having to stay past shift, even if there was no one to give report to & mandatory volunteering to work through the unpaid 1/2 hr meal break. If you complained that no pay for work is "illegal," you were written up as "not being a team player" during the hospital's financial deficit that' s occurring because of the building of a new hospital in another part of the metroplex (management was saying it was due to all the free charity care it had to give and left out the part that it was building a new hospital). My favorite cost cutting measures were the one bandaid limit per patient per shift and the encouragement to reuse the alcohol packets until they dried out naturally If there were any "unfortunate events" that resulted from this, the nurse is responsible for it because there are a group of cronies to verify whatever management wants to say/lie about.

Had exactly what you describe a few years ago, with the same medical dx I wouldn't accept. Turned out to be my thyroid. After insisting on a thyroid panel, doc called me once the results were received & immediatly put me on inderal. My heart rate stabilized, which made the anxiety go away-if you get my drift. Please, get a T3, T4 & TSH ASAP and research the various thyroid related websites to see if you can relate to some of the sx. PM me if you'd like to discuss this further. Hope all goes well for you. Good Luck!

I know that TWU has one, with a campus in Dallas. Also, if you don't mind the drive-UTA (I don't recommend UTA since I recently finished their BSN program. The school's nursing program along with many of the faculty is really "messed up") Another option you can explore is Collin County Community College (http://www.ccccd.edu); but, I don't know if they have what you're looking for. LOL to you.

Any other INtP's-& what exactly is this saying about me??? :chair: