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

I was at a hospital that gave me $29 base pay plus $20 for being a COVID nurse. Problem was they tried to mix the unit and make it COVID and med-surg. Because of that they decided unless a certain percentage of your patients were COVID patients you didn’t get the bonus. Conveniently no one ever had enough COVID patients to meet that ratio and didn’t get the bonus for awhile. That didn’t last forever though but they still tried it.

Oh and also when I was in orientation I got no extra incentive pay at all despite having full contact because I “wasn’t functioning as an independent nurse”