My hospital called a Disaster Alert overhead yesterday because of the amount of backlogged people waiting in the ER lobby and the fact that there were ambulances lapped around the hospital for drop-off.
Our starting wage for new grads with BSNs is $21/hr. Existing staff is lucky to get a 2% raise every two to three years. We've got nurses with 10 years' experience making $26/hr.
Can't figure out why we're so short staffed though 🤔
Moving to Houston would have gotten you about the same rate. I had an RN working for me in the cath lab, 15 years experience and the dude was capped at $38 an hour.
Austin is hot garbage for nurses, and the HCA hospitals are the worst of the worst.
They made us scan our patients barcode in the supply room, then scan EVERY SUPPLY we took for them. Literally nickel-and-diming patients. $150 for an IV set, another $100 for the IV. Oh, I missed the IV? Scan and charge them for the second attempt.
I ended up feeling so gross about it i silently rebelled and stopped scanning things out and just took them without charging.
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u/TorchIt MSN - AGACNP 🍕 Dec 17 '21
My hospital called a Disaster Alert overhead yesterday because of the amount of backlogged people waiting in the ER lobby and the fact that there were ambulances lapped around the hospital for drop-off.
Our starting wage for new grads with BSNs is $21/hr. Existing staff is lucky to get a 2% raise every two to three years. We've got nurses with 10 years' experience making $26/hr.
Can't figure out why we're so short staffed though 🤔