Rich nurses?

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you guys are mostly from the USA?

I just glanced over a thread and it seems you guys are ridculously overpaid?

In Australia.. nursing is by far not a well paid job. Its maybe just average. My step dad who was a traffic controller - held a sign that said "slow" and "stop" on the flipside got paid $10 an hour more than me.. i kid you not.

Specializes in CT ,ICU,CCU,Tele,ED,Hospice.
I am certainly not going to complain about my salary. I have been a nurse for 6 months and earn $33.00/hr but I live in high cost area. Financial well being is based more on spending habits than actual take home pay. I feel in this country wants and needs are often ill defined. Also credit cards and children certainly effect the "bottom line".

In my neck of the woods there are staff nurses that make six figure incomes and still cry poverty. Nurses can make an almost unlimited amount of income if they are willing to sacrifice (health, family, relationships), but to say that we are overpaid or rich is misstating the facts of nursing in the States.

what you say is so true .but i have to kringe when you as a relative new nurse earn 33/hr when i have been a nurse >20 yrs and i only make 34/hr.where do you live?i live near boston and we have a high cost of living also.

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Specializes in ED, Cardiac Medicine, Retail Health.
what you say is so true .but i have to cringe when you as a relative new nurse earn 33/hr when i have been a nurse >20 yrs and i only make 34/hr.where do you live?i live near Boston and we have a high cost of living also.

I live on the South Shore (Brockton Avon Bridgewater area). I work the weekend program at BI which raised my salary considerably. If I worked a regular rotation my salary would be $28.50/hr which is still not a bad entry level salary.

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In most states, CPA require 150 credit hours, which means a Master's degree, and 2 year work experience. The eucation requirement of CPA with RN is not comparable. Maybe you can compare CRNA with CPA, they both require Master's training. But who makes more bucks? CRNA of course.

Actually, I worked at one of the few hospitals, in this country, back in 1971 that had one of the few MSN programs for entry level RNs. It was Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital, on the upper eastside of Manhattan. And I am one of the few nurse's, on this board, who believes that there should be only one entry level into professional nursing. And that it should be a BSN. Then perhaps we would be viewed as professionals. And then perhaps we would be paid as professionals.

The last year I worked, 1988, I grossed more then $85,000. But I, like others who made an equal income, had a Masters. I finally earned an income to match my education and experience.

Woody:balloons:

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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.
Actually, I worked at one of the few hospitals, in this country, back in 1971 that had one of the few MSN programs for entry level RNs. It was Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital, on the upper eastside of Manhattan. And I am one of the few nurse's, on this board, who believes that there should be only one entry level into professional nursing. And that it should be a BSN. Then perhaps we would be viewed as professionals. And then perhaps we would be paid as professionals.

The last year I worked, 1988, I grossed more then $85,000. But I, like others who made an equal income, had a Masters. I finally earned an income to match my education and experience.

Woody:balloons:

Pulled my tax records for 1988, 94, 000. I just had an AD RN

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Pulled my tax records for 1988, 94, 000. I just had an AD RN

94K in 1988? Really?

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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

yes indeed

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94k in 1988 was really high.

Pulled my tax records for 1988, 94, 000. I just had an AD RN
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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.
94k in 1988 was really high.

I worked really hard, still had time to golf

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I worked really hard, still had time to golf

Were you working in Texas?

94K a year and a Texas golf course in spring! HEAVEN!

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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

texas is cool

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Specializes in icu, er, transplant, case management, ps.

$94,000 in 1988? As an AD nurse?

Woody:balloons:

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Pulled my tax records for 1988, 94, 000. I just had an AD RN

Where in the heck did you work? And as what? I didn't make even near that 5 years ago as an Infection Control with a BSN, Certified in Infection Control, BLS Instructor Instructor, ACLS Instructor Instructor and probably a few things I've forgotten! If I wasn't permanently disabled (my doc told me at my last visit I'd never work again - so I am going through the blues - I had hoped to go back to what I was doing someday - but we just keep adding disabling diagnosis to the long list of why I can't work! POOH!) I'd like your old job.:o:o:o

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