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To: damainman who wrote (33247)6/12/2005 5:03:51 PM
From: kikogreyRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
OT--Let me clear up a few misconceptions about being an RN. I've been one for the last 30 years in California. RNs starting salary is about $50,000 based on 40-hour work week. Experienced RNs make $80,000 plus. If you want to work overtime that easily becomes over $100,000.
Nurses don't leave to go work for drug companies that often anymore that I am aware of. Got taken out to lavish dinner a few months ago by a pharmaceutical rep (with MD hubby) and it was clear that he was really afraid he was going to lose his job soon and be replaced by a younger worker with a much slimmer salary.
The vast majority of RNs in So. California are from the Phillippines.
At least in my hospital the old stereotype of rude MDs isn't true. The good old boys club is disappearing and at least half of new MDs are women and most MDs realize a team approach to taking care of the patients is mutually beneficial.
Nurses probably most often leave due to understaffing. I don't find my patients difficult for the most part, in fact I really enjoy them and don't desire to work behind a desk. However, nurses (and all health care workers) and being forced to spend at least half or more of their time on documentation which involves tedious, redundant paperwork. The new HIPPA law also take up an extraordinary amount of time and money.
I personally don't understand why more young people don't go into nursing. They won't be outsourced.
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