Survey looks at variations in nurse salaries
The Advance for Nurses 2011 Salary Survey found that California nurses had the highest income and Nebraska nurses the lowest. Data also found some states had higher pay for nurses in academia, while many others paid those in outpatient and inpatient settings more. Job experience, advance degrees and certification were tied to higher nurse salaries, the survey found. NurseZone.com (4/1)
Now if only more employers truly cared about advanced degrees, more nurses would pursue them. But unless nurses are planning to leave the bedside for higher degrees, it is rarely worth the effort to seek higher levels of education, because too many facilities may value it for the prestige, but they do not pay extra for the more educated nurses. If you are in a state that does, you are lucky.
Very few places truly value their nurses to the point that they advocate for their nurses over and above the bureaucracies, agencies or even the physicians...Has anyone even seen such a position posted in any facility. I have worked in a few dozen places over the span of my career and have yet to see it. Would love to hear if anyone has...
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