On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:04:54 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> 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.

Why is that supposed to be considered a windfall if she has years of
experience? That's what pushers with similar qualifications at the
supervisory level make (RNs are supervisors too) and you're begrudging
that salary to her? Why, because she's female?

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