On 23/11/2012 3:27 PM, Christine Dabney wrote:

>>> The difference is nursing pays better and it is an essential service.
>>> Some people need 24/7 care. There is no good reason to have big sales on
>>> holidays.
>>>
>> Nurses may start off at a monetary level higher than Joe Schmoe over
>> in the shoe department; but it's beginning salary for a college
>> graduate with a post grad degree and they don't get rich doing what
>> they do.
>
> And for what we do, we don't get paid nearly enough. Other people's
> lives are in our hands..literally.
>

I don't know how much you get paid. It changes from one area to another.
Around here nurses are quite well paid, and I know several Canadian
trained nurses who are working in the US and making good money. FWIW, I
have a SiL who is a psychiatric nurse and I am under the impression that
her annual salary is in the $70-80,000 range.