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I cannot believe you nurses make so little!! That just doesn't make sense. Nurses are critical to our healthcare, to pay them LESS than a barista at Starbucks is....disturbing. No wonder there's a nursing shortage. I thought supply demand determined wage. If that's the case, nurses should hold all the cards.
I don't know where you live (I'm guessing Minnesota?) but you should consider moving to California. My friend's mom is a nurse and she makes $80,000-120,000 depending on how much overtime she has to work. Plus the state gives all sorts of incentives for schooling etc for nurses. We have a severe shortage of nurses here. At UCLA ( an ok hospital by any standards) there were 7500 patients for a capacity of 5000. On my grandma's floor, there were only two nurses for 150 patients: It took a long time to call a nurse. No wonder they're threatening to strike.
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