Was she an ICU nurse? Because in our hospital those were pulling $100k a year easy. They cannot get enough of them.
Not ICU, she was in the department where women go to have babies (obstetrics), and the doctors wanted their patient assigned to her for nursing duties. This was back in the late 1970’s through late 1980’s.
My main point in previous post was to agree with the poster who said a nurse does not need a BS degree to do the work. RN’s and LPN’s all can do the same work. LPN’s are at the bottom of pay scale, doing essentially same job. My wife was only a LPN having arrived from Sweden with less English, but she was the most preferred by the doctors because of her work ethic, with the result she was carrying heavier work load. Probably got assigned to difficult cases. I used to pick her up from hospital and she was always a few minutes late getting out, and many times her uniform was splattered with blood from patients and she was dead tired.