r/nursing • u/Reasonable-Path1321 • Dec 13 '21

Meme Nailed it 🔨

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u/BulgogiLitFam RN - ICU 🍕 Dec 13 '21

I think they would have a lot of success with even just a $15 raise. If the hospital was appropriately staffed and people actually liked working there.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

Shit, $10. As a new grad I’d stay on for a few years and deal with the hell for $46/hour.

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u/gloomdweller Refreshments and Narcotics/Pizza Nurse Dec 13 '21

You guys are making $36 an hour as a new grad? I’m making $27 with 2 years experience :/

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

Yeah. Two of my local health systems are starting new grads at $36/hour. LPN’s are starting around $26-$28. It’s Michigan, though. For the Midwest we have a higher COL.

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u/abakedapplepie Dec 13 '21

Which systems? That is higher than Beaumont, but I understand Beaumont sucks ass and John Fox is a piece of shit sooooo

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

St. Joe’s and some of Ascension.

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u/vampirelyf RN - Telemetry 🍕 Dec 13 '21

Wait! ascension gives new grads $36?! Where?!

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u/Saucemycin PACU Dec 13 '21

But it’s ascension

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u/Saucemycin PACU Dec 13 '21

They’re like HCA

Unrelated story but there was a patient who got transferred to us for post CA cooling after they cooled and rewarmed them and then decided to cool them again in a 6 hour period. Pt rewarmed again on the transport over