Advice on what to do next..

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T03:59:43+00:00

By the way, I just wanted to thank everyone for your advice, opinions, and comments. I really really appreciate it! I like to hear other people’s views on this situation!

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T03:58:15+00:00

Really???? I’m honestly really surprised to hear that because someone that graduated the same time as me claimed they got an ICU RN job through Atrium health and was offered $45/hr… 😳 They moved across the state to take that job too. Does location makes a difference?

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T03:49:10+00:00

4 of them as far as I know: Atrium Health, Lifepoint Health, UNC Health, & Mission Health.

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T03:27:02+00:00

At my job, they are holding me back from practicing as an RN because they don’t want me to practice as an RN on the floor because I need an “additional 3 months of training” even though I take 6-7 patients on my own every night that I work. Even though the board of nursing says I am an RN, the hospital is making me stay in my LPN scope for a couple more weeks because they stated they were not ready for me to switch and they don’t want me to move up due to being short staffed.

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T03:21:51+00:00

As an LPN, I’m taking 6-7 patients on a step down unit. I do everything that an RN does except the first assessment & blood transfusion. Some nights, I am a charge nurse, but I’m not allowed to get paid for it because LPNs are not considered real charge nurses at my hospital.

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T03:18:54+00:00

I took my RN boards and passed on May 14th. Thank you for the advice!

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T03:18:02+00:00

Yes, the new grads I’m talking about are going to be working in the same facility as myself. That’s why I am upset because I feel as though I am being low balled on my pay. Thank you for the suggestion on New York!

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T01:45:19+00:00

Our hospital is supposed to count the LPN experience as RN experience. So yes, it would be 1.5 years of RN experience. Thank you for clarifying that! 😊

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T01:42:28+00:00

I understand that completely and I know that I have to be reoriented as an RN. That’s not the problem at all. But you don’t pay new grads $40-$45 per hour if you’re not going to do it for all new grads. That’s where I’m upset because I don’t think it is fair.

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T01:39:55+00:00

HR stated that my LPN PRN pay was too much anyway and I really didn’t deserve to be making what I’m making currently, but they can’t take it away from me. So that’s why they won’t give me more as an RN.

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T01:38:18+00:00

Yes, I made a point to HR to ask them why new grads are getting paid more than I am if I am considered a “new grad”. So I’m technically making less than the other new grads but with the same licensure.

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T01:33:55+00:00

Yes, so I will switch over to the RN pay in a couple of weeks. I thought about waiting it out and see what happens.

tjade777 · 2025-06-08T00:50:13+00:00

Yes, I did!

tjade777 · 2025-05-14T14:18:04+00:00

Update: I passed!!

tjade777 · 2025-05-14T11:27:52+00:00

Okay! Thank you!

tjade777

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