RN pay

[FamousAJ]

I know we have a few here on the board...

Can you typically expect to be paid more depending on the type of services offered? i.e. licensed medical spa with plastic surgeon vs a MD specialist or family doc type of place. The answer seems obvious, but inquiring minds....

What is the average pay like? Is it typically hourly or salary? If one or both, I would assume hourly is better.

 

[SMS]

From limited experience being married to a nurse. Folks working in doctors offices/day clinics usually earn less than those working shift in hospitals (exceptions apply I'm sure), but the payoff is no shift work and a set schedule.

Hourly pay seems to be the norm, with bonuses for night shift, weekends etc.

 

[JD8]

Other half is graduating from RN program @ OU Schusterman. She told me that they start off around ~22hr depending on the hospital. Your qualifications and experience allow for higher pay. You get a $4 an hour bump for weekends and nights and they off big incentives to pick up extra shifts when needed. Apparently, home health care nurses make bank, easily double what I just quoted and traveling nurses I know for a fact can make triple.

 

[Old Fart]

Don't know the pay but I've watched my wife over the years.
Lowest typically work in Doctors office/practice.
Highest probably nurse practitioner or nurse anesthetist.
My wife has done as well or even substantially better as a nurse marketer.
Currently she doing real well as a nurse liaison and clinical documentation inspector.

 

[TedKennedy]

Other half is graduating from RN program @ OU Schusterman. She told me that they start off around ~22hr depending on the hospital. Your qualifications and experience allow for higher pay. You get a $4 an hour bump for weekends and nights and they off big incentives to pick up extra shifts when needed. Apparently, home health care nurses make bank, easily double what I just quoted and traveling nurses I know for a fact can make triple.

Is she already working at the hospital she's gonna stay at? Ask about "clinical ladder" - nurses that keep building skills can bump pay up significantly. SICU, ER, pay better, hours suck. Being ACLS, PLCS, etc...all can add to value.

 

[JD8]

Is she already working at the hospital she's gonna stay at? Ask about "clinical ladder" - nurses that keep building skills can bump pay up significantly. SICU, ER, pay better, hours suck. Being ACLS, PLCS, etc...all can add to value.

She's doing clinical rotations at St. Francis and has been offered two jobs on different floors. She's waiting to interview on an ICU floor in which that's what she wants. I believe for the reasons you mentioned.

 

[TedKennedy]

Good for her! The specialty units are tough, but staffed by a special breed, for sure. I know St. Francis has the clinical ladder.

 

[Jestik]

My boss's wife is a nurse at a major hospital in the metro. I believe her base salary is $22 and hour. There are times though, where she makes $100+ an hour because she gets called in ALL THE TIME, so she gets tons of overtime and on holidays to boot. She also works nights. So yeah, she is raking in the money, but they hardly ever see each other, and she is always on-call, meaning that they can call her to come again if they get slammed. Obviously she does not always have to go in, but you know how that would look. She graduated nursing school two years ago.

 

[SMS]

Besides the clinical ladder, another thing to ask about is "Nurse Externships". My wife quit her regular job for her last semester and went to work at the Heart Hospital as an extern (basically a nursing technician with extra training).

After graduation, they converted her to an Intern and paid for her licensing review course. Once she passed her boards, they brought her her on staff as an RN, far above the $22 starting rate posted here.

 

[Lurker66]

My wife makes $33 - 36 hourly base then goes up depending on variables like shift, call in, charge, floor, incentive ect. She works at Norman regional ICU/PCU/CVICU. Has all the required certification n bells n whistles. She's been a RN for 14 years in hospital wards/floors and has been in several clinic settings before that.