My wife will graduate from nursing school in December and I am looking forward to her being out of school and having a income again. According to a few websites the median RN salary in OKC is in the 60-65K range.
Right there with you.
Hope she gets it, my daughter is a PICU nurse (RN).
And what GM said about the pay is spot on. My daughter made $800 for a single extra shift a couple weeks ago. That equates to just under $70 an hour.
And people wonder why healthcare is so expensive...
Anyone willing to go to school for three years and then put up with blood, sh$t, piss, filth, infection and be able to greet the attitudes of patients, patient's families and doctors with a smile and a cheerful bedside manner, and do it all for less than the prevailing wage is welcome to go ahead and "take one for the team" in the name of reduced healthcare costs. LOL.
I work in a neuro/cts icu in okc. My base pay is $22.35 + shift diff for nights. All the overtime you want. Lately they have been offering double to triple pay regularly, since some of the other units are short and/or their acuity is high. My unit also offers a weekend contract which is base pay and diffs + an additional $7/hr, which equates to approximately another shift.
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LOL. You're the one who started. 
I'd say nurse pay is far from the biggest contributing factor to healthcare costs. Our obesity and extreme lack of overall health, nutrition, and fitness is a huge factor that far eclipses RN pay.
I'd say nurse pay is far from the biggest contributing factor to healthcare costs. Our obesity and extreme lack of overall health, nutrition, and fitness is a huge factor that far eclipses RN pay.
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