ALT-1 How much does a Nurse Make in the us
There are several types of nurses and many different settings a nurse may be employed. As a Licensed Practical Nurse I have found that the best pay has been in the Home Health Care setting. A Home Health Nurse is a nurse employed by an agency to visit clients at home or other types of health care setting.A Home Health Nurse may also work a shift/shifts in hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living homes, psychiatric settings or any other setting that the Home Health Care Agency is contracted.The reason the pay is higher in a Home Health Care setting is due to the contract amount paid to the agency. The amount, whether by insurance or private pay, may be requesting thirty nine dollars per hour but the amount going to the Licensed Practical Nurse may be twenty six dollars per hour. If you have more than three years experience, it can be as high as twenty six per hour. If the shift is difficult to fill, a nurse could make as much as twenty eight dollars per hour.There is some room to negotiate in a Home Health Care setting.The company I work for has health care benefits. The one thing I have found disappointing is the mileage is no longer paid for so I ask for more pay in the hourly charge and that is how I get around that. The schedulers are eager to please their nurses, especially on a weekend.When I was a new Licensed Practical Nurse graduate, I worked at a community pediatric clinic for thirteen dollars an hour. As I gained experience, I then moved up to fifteen dollars an hour in a hospital and then sixteen dollars and ninety cents an hour in facial plastic surgery in private practice.Everyone thought I was making a lot more money because I was employeed by a private practice surgeon. That was not the case. It seems that many private practice physicians pay the least. The reason is unknown. I also was not given health care insurance or even a choice.That is according to my experience and other nurses I spoke with who have experience in that department. I was able to get Botox for free and other types of services.I think I would rather have had the money.The second highest pay as a Licensed Practical Nurse was as a Nurse Manager in the Assisted Living Community and on call 24/7. This was a stressful job, not because it was difficult but because it was too much for one nurse. I was in charge of forty one geriatric clients and their families. This is something I will not go back to very soon, if ever. I could not leave town, be out of the community during lunch and I was expected to work salary and over 10 hours per day.The pay for this type of work was twenty dollars per hour with a seven percent pay raise per year and a half. Forget trying to take vacation and days off. This does however depend on your supervisor. My supervisor was an older woman who did not have children and who's husband worked just as much as she.Families expected you to be in almost always and sometimes on weekends.I loved my clients but the demand for my presence was too overwhelming.As for hospitals and nursing homes, the pay was about seventeen to nineteen dollars per hour depending on experience and shift you worked.As a Registered Nurse, I have found that you can make nineteen to twenty dollars per hour to start. This is about the rate that I have found.As a registered nurse in the Home Health Care setting, I have found you can make up to thirty dollars per hour.The next best thing would be to work as a traveling nurse where you can receive housing, decent pay and other incentives.This would be a great way to save money and see the United States. If you have a family, you may be able to work in the same town as a traveling nurse. This would be something to look into.I will stick with Home Health care where I make more money working with individual clients as I would working with 12 or more and definitely less stressful and declining on-call positions.Also ask for sign-on bonuses as an LPN or RN.
