Posted on 03/06/2006 6:26:48 AM PST by Angus MacGregor
That should be illegal.
Jarold Nadler's proctologist.
And for the 5th year in a row, the Most unpoopular job in America, "Crack Whore"!
Izzy Dunne I warned you didn't I? Now see what Angus has done.
I was about to have breakfast too. I can forget about that now.
I hope that you have a great career in nursing. My friends who did it liked it, but they worked their tails off. I stood back and watched their dedication in disbelief. Takes a real work ethic.
My sister is an R.N. and makes more than that too.
Bingo!, you took the words right out of my mouth. A very highly skilled job, that doesnt pay squat.
I live in the South and that is about what they are paying. My sister-in-law lives in Michigan. She works part-time and makes $36 per hour. You know the nurse anaethetists are making $100,000 a year. But if people into nursing just because of money, they are missing the boat. It's really hard work.
Well, this is good news! I wouldn't want to be training for an unpopular profession. "Follow the crowd" that's what my old man always told me. That correspondence course on buggy whip making looks like it may pay off in spades!
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
OH my that one really hurt. Felt a sharp stabbing pain in my gut when I read that one.
I always thought RN's make pretty good money.
After you factor in the hours and hazards, I think they deserve a lot more.
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I don't think we'll have a problem finding people to do jobs 2 through 5. It's just a matter of the market finding the right wage.
I doubt we'll have any long-term problem with truck drivers. The truck drivers I know seem to enjoy the work reasonably well. The problems are in the wages and the hours, and those things can be adjusted in the marketplace. We'll always have a supply of men with independent streaks who are happy to spend their days on the open road, if they can make a decent living doing so.
The problem with nursing is that so much of the job is in the public sector and unionized, so wages and working conditions adjust very slowly. Unions tend to do a terrible job of addressing working conditions, because they seek solutions that could be applied to everyone.
For example, a good nurse might propose that certain nurses be allowed to use their judgment in how often they check in on patients. A good nurse might know, for example, that Old Mr. Jones has to be checked on every fifteen minutes whereas young Ms. Smith is going to be okay with checks at lesser freqency. But the union would never agree to a policy where good nurses have different rules than bad nurses, and the hospital is never going to agree to a policy that gives such discretion to the worst nurse in the hospital. The upshot is all nurses have to abide by rules that are only appropriate for the very worst nurse in the hospital.
The union may get an agreement for regular 15-minute breaks or something, but such a move hardly addresses the real issues in nursing.
What, no one has posted the photo of the deodorant testers sniffing rows of underarms yet?
:)
I have people in my classes that are moving from LPN to RN because of the money and those who got into nursing simply for the money.
Some have made it through, some have already dropped out a few have flunked out.
For some people, they want the money to work as hard as a nurse does. I didn't look at salaries when I decided to go into forensic nursing. It wasn't until classes started and hospitals came around recruting that I even looked at money. Even if it paid $5/hr I'd still go into the field.
But lucrative. I'm a Computer Guy, and I liken our business to "Muck Jumping", i.e. jumping into cesspools. We have our careers because it is just too distasteful, confusing, and difficult for most people to jump into "driver hell" to make their computers work. And we provide a convenient outlet to blame when anything goes wrong.
It all depends on how you market it. Think "Custom leathercrafting for the sexually adventuresome".
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