Paris said:
WTTCHMN said:
Irvine Dream said:
WTTCHMN said:
she will be ready to flip her Capella home while her friends struggle to cobble enough money together to make the down payment at Strada.
Future nurse makes CSUF her No. 1 choice
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/csuf-724309-program-year.html
Common, Paris is a Doctor >
Nurses make more than doctors if you account for school debt, opportunity cost of lost income while going to school, and the fact that nurses only work 3 days/week + overtime.
Um maybe if it's a primary care doctor. Specialists catch up real quick and surpass a RN salary by a long shot. And I work 3 times a week. But I get to rest in my call room during my shifts while those nurses have to be on their feet 12 hours of their shift, doing all that dirty work cleaning up shit and having to deal with irritating patients and their family members. No thanks. Physician > nurse Any day which is why it's so difficult to get into medical school. These days you could buy a nursing degree for a $130k at west coast university - they let anyone in if you pay.
Depends on what area the RN works in. I worked in Labor and Delivery which is feast or famine. Except on the absolute most craziest days when there are patients on beds in the halls because there is no room at the inn, L/D RNs are definitely not on their feet all day and the RN isn't the one cleaning up in most cases. LVN's, scrub techs, housekeeping is the one to clean up stuff.
Circulating RNs, ICU/CCU, NICU, PICU are not on their feet all day either.
Double time after their initial shift adds up to quite a tidy sum.
One of the nice perks is working thru a registry if you're comfy with going to several hospitals. We had nurses we had thru the registry we considered staff they were there so much. You work WHEN you want and WHERE you want.
AND RNs aren't limited to working in hospitals. They can work in surgical out patient centers or offices. They can get their Nurse Practitioner license for way cheaper than an MD and do much of what a doctor does.
I had a friend who went from CNA to LVN to RN to Nurse Practitioner who got herself a share of a well known well regarded perinatologist out of St. Joes and remained with him for well over 20 years until she retired and then he bought her share back. She worked her days in the office and never had to take call and was quite well paid.
I've known two nurses who went on to get an MBA (paid for with tuition reimbursement and it only took an additional two years of part time classes) and went high up in hospital administration. One has been a hospital CEO for many years.
My oncologist employs RNs and pays better than a hospital with vacation, sick leave etc all better than the hospital. They do all the chemo, blood draws, review labs etc just as an RN would do in the hospital so it's important to have nurses that are competent and have a reason to stay, pay being only one.
I've known many docs and in Labor and Delivery you have a LOT of time where RNs and docs talk for hours. We knew about their kids and they knew about ours. You know what a common theme was? They didn't want their kids to be a doctor. Maybe that was just OB, but somehow I think not. They could have said not an OB doc, but they said not a doctor, period....... due to the time they are on call and the cost of keeping an office and their education. We had several that actually left their practices who went on to hospital administration and one became a malpractice lawyer. One sold his practice and worked in a clinic but he said in the end, he would have not bothered with medicine as he didn't like working in the clinic and saving money over his own office wasn't fulfilling.
I retired because I wanted to spend more time with my kids and had enough money to never work again but if I had to pick med school or nurse......... nurse hands down, but NOT on a general med/surg floor. I would pick L/D again and if that weren't available circulating RN.
