Unc chapil hill hospital

carolinachick · Sep 11, 2010

new grad 19.75........with experience,it depends its between $25-$33

rd203821 · Sep 11, 2010

Thank you very much carolinachick.

I also have one more question, this is in regards to transfering my license from another state to North carolina.

Currently i hold a Massachusetts RN License. When i went to the nursing license website, one of the questions asked if held a nursing license for 5 years and if not you have to take a refresher course. It has been a year since I've had my license, will that mean i have to take the course?

elkpark · Sep 11, 2010

Just to clarify, you're not transferring your MA license, you're applying for a new license in NC. Licenses don't "transfer." I think this is the statement on the NC BON website you're referring to:

"If the license has not been current within the past five years in another state, evidence of completion of a North Carolina Board of Nursing approved refresher course is required."

It says "within" five years in another state, not that you have to have been licensed for five years -- they mean that, if you've been out of nursing and haven't been licensed at all (somewhere in the US) for five years or more, then you have to take a refresher course. That doesn't apply to you -- you are fine.

Just a word of caution; you may want to make sure you have a job lined up here before you actually move. NC did not have a nursing shortage before the economy tanked, and, since then, the same factors that have created employment problems for nurses all over (nurses returning to the workforce, employers cutting back and "tightening their belts," huge waves of new grads entering the market twice a year) have also been happening in NC. The employment situation is not great here, and the cost of living, esp. in the Triangle area, is not particularly low.

Best wishes!

rd203821 · Sep 12, 2010

Thank you Elkpark very much for clarifying that for me.