Nurses--how much do you get paid and how many hours?

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Anonymous wrote:Not in this area: $48/hr, 12 hr shifts, $4/hr shift for nocs, $3/hr for weekends. Ratios and a union.

That said: please realize that nursing consists of often conflicting, chaotic and somewhat unpredictable duties. A lot of people who come into nursing because they hunk the money is good will leave. Most of the men I know make poor nurses on the floor, but those who managed to stay are awesome.

In the course of one shift I have been: bitten and kicked by a trauma neuro pt, puked on, cleaned up massive heme positive diarrhea, bathed a patient whose skin and dirt was peeling off in sheets, coded the diarrhea patient, started three ivs on the neuro pt and gotten an admit at change of shift.

If you don't think you can deal, think twice about nursing. There is a reason we make so much and t has to do with holding someone's life in our hands.

Please, what area of the country are you in? How many years of experience do you have as an RN and what is your schooling level? Are you an ICU nurse Thnx.

26 years RN, BSN, SoCal. Pcu RN.

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Hmo companies also hire nurses. You do not have to work in a hospital.

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They want experience first.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmo companies also hire nurses. You do not have to work in a hospital.

You need hospital experience first. Jobs that want nurses with NO nursing experience are very few and far between.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not in this area: $48/hr, 12 hr shifts, $4/hr shift for nocs, $3/hr for weekends. Ratios and a union.

That said: please realize that nursing consists of often conflicting, chaotic and somewhat unpredictable duties. A lot of people who come into nursing because they hunk the money is good will leave. Most of the men I know make poor nurses on the floor, but those who managed to stay are awesome.

In the course of one shift I have been: bitten and kicked by a trauma neuro pt, puked on, cleaned up massive heme positive diarrhea, bathed a patient whose skin and dirt was peeling off in sheets, coded the diarrhea patient, started three ivs on the neuro pt and gotten an admit at change of shift.

If you don't think you can deal, think twice about nursing. There is a reason we make so much and t has to do with holding someone's life in our hands.

Please, what area of the country are you in? How many years of experience do you have as an RN and what is your schooling level? Are you an ICU nurse Thnx.

26 years RN, BSN, SoCal. Pcu RN.

if you have 26 years of experience in CA, you are at the top of the pay scale of the entire US.

New grads here in the greater DC area will make less than half of that. (and that's if they work in a hospital--clinic RNs, etc make far less).

Nurses are unionized in CA and so they get paid a ton more than just about anywhere else.

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Anonymous wrote:
if you have 26 years of experience in CA, you are at the top of the pay scale of the entire US.

New grads here in the greater DC area will make less than half of that. (and that's if they work in a hospital--clinic RNs, etc make far less).

Nurses are unionized in CA and so they get paid a ton more than just about anywhere else.

The ratios make it awesome, the pay is gravy. New grads here make half that as well....this is, I think, the third cycle of "nursing is a well-paying stable job so I'll go into it" that I've been through. It was a tough job market years ago when I graduated, and it has fluctuated since. One of the things I was getting at, however poorly, is that the field is stable because of the chaos and lack of control nurses have. I love my crazy job, but there are so many people who can't deal with it...they want to finish one thing at a time.

Besides, I wear the equivalent of PJ's to work every day. And get to say Dammit, breathe! on occasion......

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Anonymous wrote:Make 110K as a nurse practitioner. Have 15 yrs experience and MSN.

Is the 110K full time? how many hours do you work? --sighned, another NP

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make 110K as a nurse practitioner. Have 15 yrs experience and MSN.

Is the 110K full time? how many hours do you work? --sighned, another NP

Yes- 40 hours more or less

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make 110K as a nurse practitioner. Have 15 yrs experience and MSN.

Is the 110K full time? how many hours do you work? --sighned, another NP

Yes- 40 hours more or less

Thanks! What field are you in? have you always been in this field? how do you like it? Thanks!!

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40 hrs/week, $85K, 15 years exper.

I would say the high in demand nursing specialties are:
Labor and Delivery
OR
ICU/critical care

Those are the ones that even during cutbacks have job opportunities.

I agree with another poster that if you're going for a Master's, double it with something else. CNS, when times are tough, get reassigned to do other things, so it helps to have flexibility.