The nursing shortage

October 18, 2007

It’s because of not enough nursing teachers. This staggering fact surprised me:

In the San Francisco area, a nurse with a bachelor’s degree can hope to start out with a salary of $104,000. The salary for a nursing professor with a Ph.D. at University of California San Francisco starts at about $60,000.

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1 ERMurse October 18, 2007 at 2:42 pm: You would think the Universities would respond to the need and produce more graduate level Nurses so Nursing programs could expand. In California, The University of California chose to produce more lawyers by opening up a totally unneeded new law school at UC Irving. While UC does have a few graduate level Nursing programs they are small by comparison to the number of lawyers they produce and some funded by generous donations rather than being a UC priority. I spoke to that in one of my recent entries. http://ermurse.blogspot.com/2007/07/should-university-of-california-invest.html
2 Mike October 18, 2007 at 4:23 pm: I made 90K as a first year hospitalist. So apparently, I am not worth as much as a nurse. Good to know.
3 girlvet October 18, 2007 at 9:17 pm: oh poor Mike….Nurses should make 200K…we’re the ones that do the work sweet pea..
4 Anonymous October 18, 2007 at 11:51 pm: Ya… no one could do that blood draw without you or clean up the mess on aisle 4. And who will read the US magazine at the nurses station nurses are gone.

You nurses are delusional.
5 Anonymous October 19, 2007 at 4:27 am: I’ll remember that girlvet the next time I am finishing my 36 hours straight on service. When is the last time you did that?
6 Anonymous October 19, 2007 at 4:29 am: Mike: Given how hard hospitalist’s work…you were getting ripped off.
7 Happyman October 19, 2007 at 5:19 pm: RIPPED OFF IS RIGHT – in nyc, no less. *&&^%ing crooks at a major nyc teaching hospital system.
8 zooplah November 3, 2007 at 11:45 am: $60k/yr starting out doesn’t sound like a bad salary to me. I guess it depends: would you take a smaller salary to put up with rowdy students rather than narcissistic doctors and cranky patients?