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by t-3 1520 days ago
Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr. Plenty of room for improvement.
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dragonwriter 1520 days ago
> Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr. Plenty of room for improvement.

“Nurses” can be used to mean many things (CNAs, LVNs/LPNs, RNs) but this is specifically RNs, who, make much more than that, generally (median $77.6k/yr) https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/mobile/registered-nurses....

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JumpCrisscross 1520 days ago
> median $77.6k/yr

Given the amount of school a nurse must have, that’s low.

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ejb999 1520 days ago
2 years of school to be an RN, 4 for BSN - it's not a lot of school, it's an average amount of school at most.
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s1artibartfast 1520 days ago
The point is that I know nurses that make 200k a year and still complain about the workload. More nurses and better hours is the solution. Meanwhile the trend is to make it more and more difficult to become a nurse and higher and higher for hospitals to have nurses
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ejb999 1520 days ago
>>Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr.

Not even close if you are talking about the USA (and actual nurses, not CNA's or MAs) - starting pay for 2 year RN degrees near me are about 55-65K, and you easily go over 100K in a few years.

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