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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

As an experienced RN, your post is obnoxious. I'm assuming you're quite young so don't get the difference between a nanny and a babysitter. Finding a nanny who you can trust to help raise your child is worth gold. They keep your kid safe, they educate your kid, they know CPR and what to do if your kid chokes, they sometimes cook and help keep the house running while you work, and more.

Fine. Explain why an experienced nanny who knows CPR should make hundreds of dollars a week more than a licensed professional nurse. ?

I’m in my 40s, with grown children.

So I would never pay $35/hr for a nanny, however if nanny allows both parents to work and bill $300/hr (or whatever very highly paid people bill) than they may be paying for that peace of mind and the ability to 100% focus on work. I also agree that the nanny you love and trust is worth more to you than to a new family to whom they are a stranger.

Anonymous wrote:I'm asking this seriously for my nanny who we will not be needing starting in September. Her current pay rate with us is $32/hr and she expressed concern over finding another job in that range. She said the agency she is with does not have many jobs in that pay range and the ones that do are in the city or prefer people with degrees. We found her on care.com but she said she has not had much luck there either. Any other sites or agencies? Anyone on here looking for a nanny around that time? We're in the Fairfax suburbs so she's hoping to find something in that area.

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

As an experienced RN, your post is obnoxious. I'm assuming you're quite young so don't get the difference between a nanny and a babysitter. Finding a nanny who you can trust to help raise your child is worth gold. They keep your kid safe, they educate your kid, they know CPR and what to do if your kid chokes, they sometimes cook and help keep the house running while you work, and more.

Fine. Explain why an experienced nanny who knows CPR should make hundreds of dollars a week more than a licensed professional nurse. ?

I’m in my 40s, with grown children.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

As an experienced RN, your post is obnoxious. I'm assuming you're quite young so don't get the difference between a nanny and a babysitter. Finding a nanny who you can trust to help raise your child is worth gold. They keep your kid safe, they educate your kid, they know CPR and what to do if your kid chokes, they sometimes cook and help keep the house running while you work, and more.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

As an experienced RN, your post is obnoxious. I'm assuming you're quite young so don't get the difference between a nanny and a babysitter. Finding a nanny who you can trust to help raise your child is worth gold. They keep your kid safe, they educate your kid, they know CPR and what to do if your kid chokes, they sometimes cook and help keep the house running while you work, and more.

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

Anonymous wrote:I'm asking this seriously for my nanny who we will not be needing starting in September. Her current pay rate with us is $32/hr and she expressed concern over finding another job in that range. She said the agency she is with does not have many jobs in that pay range and the ones that do are in the city or prefer people with degrees. We found her on care.com but she said she has not had much luck there either. Any other sites or agencies? Anyone on here looking for a nanny around that time? We're in the Fairfax suburbs so she's hoping to find something in that area.

Anonymous wrote:Nanny can come and work in a restaurant in DC. Flexible hours, very high pay, and they feed her.

Anonymous wrote:Agree with PPs.
On the nanny board they’re all talking about these $30 an hour jobs but in reality they’re just not the norm.