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Anonymous wrote:I keep hearing about how there is this nursing shortage yet a co-worker's daughter who was a top student in high school and got into a very competitive college nursing program is having difficulty finding a job in the Bay Area of California.

Co-worker said he heard they hired a lot of nurses during Covid and now aren't replacing nurses as they leave. Even nurses with 2-3 years experience are having trouble finding jobs.

My friend had this problem admittedly several years ago but there was a shortage of experienced nurses. No one wanted to hire entry level nurses so she ended up moving to like North Dakota because that is the only place she could find a job. Not sure if its the same now but shortages don't always apply equally to every level of an occupation.

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Anonymous wrote:Registered nurse here. I entered nursing school back in early 2000s when all of the sudden, everybody was going into nursing school. It was tough then to even enter nursing program, you had to have a lot of prerequisites, and then nursing school was brutal. Those 0600 clinicals in am on top of studying the whole time. Very stressful and exhausting. I worked on inpatient ward- those long 12 hr shifts without breaks, when you constantly run on your feet. This is physically, emotionally and intelectually demanding job. Please don't do it for the money. It's not an easy job like you think it is. I work now in an outpatient clinic, no nights, no weekends, so I'm good now. I'm just trying to warn you before you jump into this profession.

Very true. Fellow RN here. People underestimate how difficult nursing and nursing school can be. I have a Bachelor's degree in History and graduated with a 3.9 GPA. I went back to school to study nursing in my late 20's and was really surprised at how challenging it was (and how challenging nursing has been in general). You have to be a caring individual, like working with people and have an interest in medicine or you'll be miserable. Even for those of us who do it's tough and there are many times when I wish I went another route professionally.

Also I don't think most nurses in the DMV make $150k a year. I'm currently working inpatient and doing three 12 plus hour shifts (more like 13 hours and sometimes more depending on the day). I have 18 years of experience as an RN and last year I made $115k.

What is the wage difference between the ones who go to community college and those who get a bachelors/masters degree (are those the RNs?)?

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Anonymous wrote:Registered nurse here. I entered nursing school back in early 2000s when all of the sudden, everybody was going into nursing school. It was tough then to even enter nursing program, you had to have a lot of prerequisites, and then nursing school was brutal. Those 0600 clinicals in am on top of studying the whole time. Very stressful and exhausting. I worked on inpatient ward- those long 12 hr shifts without breaks, when you constantly run on your feet. This is physically, emotionally and intelectually demanding job. Please don't do it for the money. It's not an easy job like you think it is. I work now in an outpatient clinic, no nights, no weekends, so I'm good now. I'm just trying to warn you before you jump into this profession.

Very true. Fellow RN here. People underestimate how difficult nursing and nursing school can be. I have a Bachelor's degree in History and graduated with a 3.9 GPA. I went back to school to study nursing in my late 20's and was really surprised at how challenging it was (and how challenging nursing has been in general). You have to be a caring individual, like working with people and have an interest in medicine or you'll be miserable. Even for those of us who do it's tough and there are many times when I wish I went another route professionally.

Also I don't think most nurses in the DMV make $150k a year. I'm currently working inpatient and doing three 12 plus hour shifts (more like 13 hours and sometimes more depending on the day). I have 18 years of experience as an RN and last year I made $115k.

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Anonymous wrote:Possibly. My SIL made $350K as a travel nurse during COVID with 2 YOE. Now she’s back to $150K in a normal non travel role and complaining it’s not enough. My other friend is a CRNA making $300K for 3 12 hour shifts a week with 10 weeks guaranteed off before overtime.

I call bullshit - unless your SIL lives in California, works for Kaiser in CA or HI, or routinely works more than 36 hrs/ week

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Nurses provide a very human intangible service that AI and technology will never be able to replace: genuine care.

I think we are a long ways off from this but some nursing care can absolutely be replaced by robotics.