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Immigrant, I have been following you for a long time. You are my nursing bible, bro! I can't wait to be able to afford your services to help me with my career path.
So much good info in this video. I completely agree with the nurse who said get to work with your ADN and let the hospital pay for the BSN. As a recent new grad, that is what I intend to do. It's kinda weird seeing my classmates get right into a BSN program and wondering if I'm making the right choice to wait, but this video has given me some much needed validation.
I used to think going the BSN route first was the smartest move. That is... until I came to Northern California and realized most of my coworkers have their ADN and make just as much as I do (we don't get education differentials here).
But then you’re stuck with hospital for the pay back yrs, you can’t leave until u serve for the required time. That was a no no for me. Beside, most hospitals don’t hire associates degree nurses, BSN is the minimum requirement
@zeezeebo Maybe you're in another state or have some outdated info, but that's absolutely not true in California. The only hospitals that require a BSN here that I'm aware of are in the UC system.
@@JMag1 California may be the exception. In many other states (including the state I was originally licensed in), a BSN is the minimum educational requirement for employment. Nurses who were grandfathered in had the option of having their education paid for by the hospital, but new hires were all required to have BSNs. So that piece of advice isn’t relevant for nurses outside of California.
I have my BA and I was back and forth, if I should go BSN which is 39k for a 3 year old program. Since, I haven’t taken any science classes before, it’s so intimidating. I watched the Medi-spa nurse say have your company pay for your BSN. Then it clicked, I had no idea I could slowly step into a ADN. Which will be $8k at the end of the day. I can go PT year round or FT 2 semesters. I am so thankful for this channel. I lived in SoCal before and I love Northern CA specifically Sacramento. I own a small daycare and I’m capped at the max I can make. I’m approaching 40 tomorrow :/ so this is a big change for me, but I’m excited to step into something higher paying and a whole new world for me. I would be in Jason and Monica situation (no family in CA) I might do that for a few years and bounce off into another state. Thanks again J & M
@NursesToRiches That's why I said Genius move! If you made a 2 hour video, even if they watch 50% of it you're guaranteed watch hours. Nurses, like me, commute far so if we can listen to the ride to and from work, your watch time will be steady. Also, did you convert this to a podcast ?
You should do a video on nurses working for federal organizations (such as the VA) and how can they maximize their earnings. Would there be a benefit for a federal nurse, like myself, to move to California?? Also how about nurses working in San Diego CA and living in Tijuana (Mexico)? Thanks so much!
Nursing is really what u make it. Most nurses that I've seen that have the most issues r not willing 2 do different things...even change dept. Sometimes a change n dept can make a big difference n stress @ work. If it's strictly about money, change is still inevitable. Hard work goes n2 starting a business. It's daily work. I also find a lot of nurses r trying 2 work less & want more. Of course, not all, just stating what I'm seeing as I travel 2 different places. This video is a gr8 example that hard work is necessary if we r going 2 progress financially.
You can work hard or you can work smart. The latter is better. This channel is a great help. There are a lot of ways to skin an apple. Find the way that makes the journey delicious. What works for one person won’t work for all. This channel shows different ways to peal your Apple. Don’t like the routes listed in these videos? Then try mix and match. Or try the road untraveled. There may be a reason some trails are untraveled. The 1st step to solving a problem is to identify that there is a problem. As I stated in a prior post, when the student is ready the teacher will appear. Work at a higher paying job. Work overtime. Get a side hustle. The answer(s) are there if you are looking and can see. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
@@martingreenberg870 U can't work smart if u don't know ur job. Nursing is not an easy job. If u do bedside, hard work is going 2 come with it. Hard work strengthens u 2 b able 2 work smart.
@@mistermilkmanyou’re missing the point. Hardworking is not always sweating 😓 neither is working smart synonymous to laziness. I’ve worked with nurses that always pick shifts at the last minute when the hospital is desperately trying to fill the shift. The hospital literally almost always doubles the shift rate. So they wait . Work smart. Also, some nurses tried and became preceptors. The new nurses does the work and the preceptor gets time to pick extra shifts. I worked with a nurse that was always either a charge nurse or a preceptor and would pick shifts for the rest of the week. She was always working 14 nights in two weeks. On paper she was cleaning pop and turning patients for 14 days but in reality she was chilling at work. I know a nurse that’s a resource nurse barely a year after her first ever job as a nurses e. Now, she works everyday. If you’re in a state where nurses take peanuts you probably would have to work 1000 hours a week to be like others or those talking. So also choosing a better paying nursing job is working smart. I said this here before and I want to repeat it again, my brother worked everyday as a regular nurse at the bedside and died in his sleep 2021. I’m not discouraging working at the bedside but you have to be smart to survive at the bedside. You can work harder in your regular shift and have a side gig that’s less stressful. Or someone can do the heavy lifting for 30 days a month and still be okay but they’re still not better than those doing it differently.
@@A2Z84 U clearly misread my post. Hard work is relative 2 what u r doing. It's not always physical. Being a new nurse, u can't work smart if u don't know what ur doing. I worked hard learning disease processes & building my assessment skills. Being a team player helped as well. A dept makes a big difference n the physical aspect as well. If u work with vents & high acuity patients with demanding family @ the bedside, u will work hard. Starting a business takes time & making mistakes. Every1 is not an entrepreneur. That's also a mindset. I get tired of the work smart & not hard comments. U also need 2 know what ur doing n order 2 work snart. It's all relative 2 an individual's situation. Both r necessary 4 success.
@@mistermilkman Working smart is not synonymous to negligence. Many new nurses started traveling and earning above $5k a week during the pandemic after just 6 months after their first nursing jobs. They’re still kicking and excelling. That was risky but smart since they believed they could do it and they did. Anyone that wants to work knows what they’re doing. And working smart is not synonymous to cutting corners. That’s laziness and criminal or negligence if patients are involved. Some nurses don’t like to delegate tasks. They prefer doing the “walking the pt, feeding the pt, cleaning the pt and even do their own vital signs though the hospital allows aids to help”. Anyone other nurse that delegates these tasks sometimes would have time to do other things like picking extra shifts or would probably not get burned out early to hate nursing. There are so many options where nurses can be smart. It doesn’t mean neglecting their jobs. For example, I got a contract in a city where I am already onboarded with careRev for two other facilities in same town. My contract pays less but it’s just 36hrs. I’d pick a shift with careRev in the other facilities than to do overtime at my contract because the rate is low. That might be being smart because I would have a contract that guarantees 36 hrs a week even if careRev doesn’t have shifts. I’ve experienced the other side where I stayed at a location waiting for shifts and had none whiles paying for hotel. I feel these are what we are talking about in terms of smartness and not malpractices or negligence.
Great conversations. I’m graduating this fall in Fl (ASN) this December and I tell any peers who will listen that they need to get out of florida. I’m moving straight to Oregon. I’ve put out maybe 6 applications directly through the hospitals and I am practically juggling these recruiters and managers. They reach out literally same day. Absolutely do not use indeed; go directly. The floor for pay is around $85k in the LCOL city I’m looking at and $125k in HCOL (both calculated as nights and weekends, my preference). 85k is basically the top of the pay scale in florida and housing is MORE expensive. Not to mention the working conditions. Looking forward to the move. Oregon is probably the best option out there in terms of income to COL if you lack the experience to get hired in the Bay Area. I care less about specialty as I do pay. Few other states where you can walk right into real estate on a new grad salary. Not going to buy for a couple years, but that’s another conversation. Want to see this interest lag take full effect before making big decisions. Oh yeah, did I mention it’s the only state where the BON won’t touch your license for 🍃? 😎 (might make a good video topic; lots of confusion out there).
I just was wondering can you discuss- how can a single mother RN nurse with FNP certification who has more than 10 years experience start relocating to California from a different state. Do you look for a job first, a RN license, a place to stay or schools. Step by step. That will be very helpful. If you need me to book an appointment I am happy to do so. Thank you very much. Just found your channel yesterday. I think I have watched every show. 😂 binge watching
I earned my AS in nursing. The pay was low. Went to Chicago and the pay wasn’t that much higher but at least I was out of Florida. After four years returned to Florida to start an assisted living facility. Went bankrupt. We were competing with hotel chains. Moved to Seattle where I instantly increased my pay by 50%! Wanted to move to California but the taxes and cost of living were too high for me. Good idea to get your associates degree. Get your RN ASAP and start earning money. Let your hospital pay for your BSN. I did. The only difference between an associate degree and BSN is the research class and the community nursing rotation. The remaining classes were none technical in nature. The last seven years I worked at an understaffed hospital. There were all sorts of bonuses. I worked six night a week and my last year I earned a little over $200k. If I worked one double sift a week I’d have earned more. An unfortunate thing is my hospital classified people earning over $125k as ‘highly compensated employees “. That meant instead of caping my 401(k) at 20% of my gross my cap was 11%. I never developed a side hustle. Now that I’m retired I’m looking for one. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
A happy ending. Since arriving in Seattle 20 years ago I bought a condo and have IRAs and taxable account of slightly over $1mm. As I worked until 70 my social security and small federal pension is enough to live on. I feel blessed I am where I am. Was a failure until age 40. Outside of a tour of duty with the USAF I couldn’t get a decent job. I only went to nursing school because my roommate did. Blood & guts turns my stomach. No surprise I winded up in psych. My advice is avoid psych. Not a lot of opportunities to travel. Many comprehensive hospitals have no psych units. I backed into retirement. I worked in low paying jobs for a decade in both Chicago and south Florida. What saved me financially was moving to Seattle. It doesn’t pay as well as California but does pay better than many locations. My retirement savings didn’t start, because I wasn’t making much more than survival wages, until I was 50. Didn’t do anything special like you teach. Work in California at Kaiser and work lots of OT. At the VA there was virtually no OT. I was there ~12 years and went from $70-100k. Traveled a year. I owned a condo I had to pay a mortgage which is suboptimal for traveling. After a year I missed Seattle so I took a job at a hospital with a bad reputation and poor staffing until something else showed up. Nothing did. Spent seven years there. Maxed my 401(k) out despite only being able to contribute 11 vs. 20%. Maxed my IRA out. I did this all wrong. Retirement plans work on the principle of compounding. The sooner you start the better. The more you contribute, especially early on, the greater the size of your retirement snowball. Putting in large amounts at the end worked for me thank God. If I’d been able to contribute smaller amounts over a longer period life would be better. I would tell my co-workers about this. Constantly. The younger co-workers were crying about student loan repayments. Truly a major PIA financially speaking. I told them the good news. This is a financial problem. Throw money at it and the problem would go away. Pay off your student loans. Start with the 401(k) at the 6% level for the match. Get into the habit of funding your 401(k):and later your Roth IRA. How? Not with a side hustle. Starting a business is hard and 50% go glub-glub-glub in the 1st year. Pick up an extra shift or two each week or pay period. The extra money goes toward paying off debts and retirement accounts. This strategy worked for me. It would have worked better for my 20 & 30 year old coworkers. I’m afraid they saw me as a curmudgeon and didn’t listen. As a result, when I retired in January they were still in student loan debt and not saving or investing for retirement. True, I was in my 60’s and they were in their 20-30’s. I was the poster child of what not to do and old enough to be their grandfather. They weren’t in a space to hear what I was saying. I was trying to throw them a financial life preserver. They saw my advice as a financial brick. They still are in a mountain of debt. There is a saying, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. This never happened for me. I have to figure all this stuff out by myself. No one around me was interested in things financial. Maybe there is another way to financial freedom. I haven’t been able to figure that way out. I hope when my coworkers come to the conclusion that they need to start saving for retirement, someone will be there for them. I figure it out. There are three ways to make money in this world. Earn it. Steal it. Marry it. The last two ways weren’t available to me. I filed BK after having a 40 bed ALF. I thought big but didn’t have the additional capital or business acumen to run a business. So for me the equation was do some overtime (not nearly as much as you suggest) and invest in my 401(k), Roth IRA, have a taxable account, and buy a place to live. Praise be to God, even starting very late in life, this plan worked for me. Do something smart early in your life, like becoming a RN, develop a side hustle, make a lot of money but live below your means. This is a path to financial success. If teachers can retire successfully after earning less than a RN, other people can retire comfortably too. Like Nike says, “Just Do It.” Do something. Anything. There are many ways to get to the financial goal line. Find one, or more, and work your plan. Plan your work. End of rant. There is a line from a movie I LOVE. It all works out in the end. If it hasn’t worked out then it isn’t the end. Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
Hi! Both my girlfriend and I are currently in the ADN program in Wisconsin. We want to move out to California once we get our degree. Any recommendations on this path?
Hello 16,10 as a property manager, I can see a better future with the nursing field since this testemony. Most nurses want to work over 40hr but I am very glad to see that there are possiblilities to work only part time 3 days and do other jobs. Property Management pays very little and I wander what positions withing health care require the least amount of studies and are welcoming to start at 50 years old lady ....
I’ve been a nurse for many years but obviously not making the right moves. At this point, I need to learn EPIC, and have no idea how. Can anyone advise me. I attempted by getting hired on at a hospital, but they assumed I knew the in & outs of EPIC and they were very disappointed with me. I don’t want to stay in long term care.
Any hospital I've ever worked for has always provided training on whatever charting system they were using. If a hospital expects you to know their charting system and is unwilling to train you, it's not a hospital you want to work in. Trust me. Keep looking. You'll find something else. Don't be too impatient, it'll take time.
@@BrianMakesBenjamins I was under the impression that they would teach me. I vaguely remember an all day class on EPIC with an educator my first week. The other 2-3 nurses present were travelers and already familiar, I was completely lost having never ever worked with it. We had test at end of day and I failed. Then on my actual floor, I was training with a 22 year old new grad and she was in shock I wouldn’t know the EPIC. She is used to working alongside travelers and students already familiar with it. I was to never measure up for her showing me once, all the things, and putting me to do all for some patients and check me. Anyway…I was asking for to much to want and need every detail and perhaps I’d need it repeated until it all clicked. But no, I was terminated. I had moved even to another state for this job. All hospitals around are owned by the same company.
@@NursesToRiches Thank you, you definitely raise my hopes. I really cannot understand the hate I faced. One RN there gave me a print-out about a nearby RN Refresher Course, I was in shock, so embarrassed.
hlo sir , please make a seperate video for California....how we can apply for nursing job in California....I just completed my graduation Bsc.( Hons.) nursing and I'm from India and I want to apply for California.... describe each things please sir reply me I need help.... I'm waiting....
Im a BSN graduate and worked as an RN for 2 years in total in Philippines and Dubai before veering off track. I have been outside of nursing for 15 years, working in the corporate world from 2008 to 2023. How can I transition back to nursing? Is it too late? 😢😅
It's definitely not too late. You might need to take some continuing education classes and a refresher course, then apply for your nursing license and start applying for jobs. You will probably have to settle for any place that's willing to hire you so that you may gain some experience as a nurse and then you will be able to use that as leverage to get a job in a place you'll be much happier with.
Anybody help me plz im in last year nursing college but im a weak student only study when exams are near and want to become USRN.. I want to know how i start preparing as i need to understand basics first so which only 1 book should i consider which helps for basics and for nclex both plzzZz help 😢😢😢
Leave your email address and I would send you materials that I have. If you’re not feeling okay about your regular email you can create a new one and I would give you the pdf of the book and the audios if they’re still active
So how did she get to 100. an hour as a Labor Delivery nurse? I work at a hospital outside of Philadelphia as a Tech. I think the nurse who is a new hire on a medsurge floor makes around $45. an hour ….
Those of you guys in tech always belittle people in other fields especially nursing, you feel they earn peanut. Lots of nurses makes way more decent pay than some tech guys. There are different genre of nursing
Why didnt the first lady mention that she got paid from a settlement which allowed her to increase her NW. Like why leave that out when u are talking about growing your money?
@@NursesToRiches the thing is I’ve exhausted my savings and have no money saved to become a travel nurse. A friend told me to save at least 5,000 to pay for the travel and housing prior to first travel check, and to have emergency money in case I get canceled.
U can become a travel nurse without savings if u go before Xmas. After Xmas is when the cancellations and rate drops happens. I started as a travel nurse during COVID with hardly any savings and glad I did. U can also take out a 0% interest credit card for 21 months to float u through a few weeks til payday. There’s always options
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best quote: "I'm getting paid what I deserve"----that should be our mantra as nurses!
Immigrant, I have been following you for a long time. You are my nursing bible, bro! I can't wait to be able to afford your services to help me with my career path.
Moving to a state that has safe patient ratios makes so much sense..
Yes, it does. It's one of the main reasons why we moved here.
A year to go I have to get my license, back to studying, Thanks Jason!
Keep grinding, you'll get there!
@amahlcotterell3717 hey :) this comment is a year old now. Did you graduate yet? 🎓
@@StrikeforceJedi failed peds/ob but taking over this semester graduate may, but thanks!
A nurse and an attorney😮😮😮😮😮wow!!!!!!
The last nurse that talked just was inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
So much good info in this video. I completely agree with the nurse who said get to work with your ADN and let the hospital pay for the BSN. As a recent new grad, that is what I intend to do. It's kinda weird seeing my classmates get right into a BSN program and wondering if I'm making the right choice to wait, but this video has given me some much needed validation.
I used to think going the BSN route first was the smartest move. That is... until I came to Northern California and realized most of my coworkers have their ADN and make just as much as I do (we don't get education differentials here).
But then you’re stuck with hospital for the pay back yrs, you can’t leave until u serve for the required time. That was a no no for me. Beside, most hospitals don’t hire associates degree nurses, BSN is the minimum requirement
@zeezeebo Maybe you're in another state or have some outdated info, but that's absolutely not true in California. The only hospitals that require a BSN here that I'm aware of are in the UC system.
@@JMag1 California may be the exception. In many other states (including the state I was originally licensed in), a BSN is the minimum educational requirement for employment. Nurses who were grandfathered in had the option of having their education paid for by the hospital, but new hires were all required to have BSNs. So that piece of advice isn’t relevant for nurses outside of California.
I have my BA and I was back and forth, if I should go BSN which is 39k for a 3 year old program. Since, I haven’t taken any science classes before, it’s so intimidating. I watched the Medi-spa nurse say have your company pay for your BSN. Then it clicked, I had no idea I could slowly step into a ADN. Which will be $8k at the end of the day. I can go PT year round or FT 2 semesters. I am so thankful for this channel.
I lived in SoCal before and I love Northern CA specifically Sacramento. I own a small daycare and I’m capped at the max I can make. I’m approaching 40 tomorrow :/ so this is a big change for me, but I’m excited to step into something higher paying and a whole new world for me. I would be in Jason and Monica situation (no family in CA) I might do that for a few years and bounce off into another state. Thanks again J & M
Super honored to make the cut! Keep creating this super motivational videos!
Of course, I would have loved to include more but I didn't want the video to go on for hours.
@NursesToRiches
That's why I said Genius move! If you made a 2 hour video, even if they watch 50% of it you're guaranteed watch hours. Nurses, like me, commute far so if we can listen to the ride to and from work, your watch time will be steady.
Also, did you convert this to a podcast ?
Me with 5 years of med tele experience worried I would struggle in the ICU. I feel better hearing med tele is harder lol
Im finishing nursing school in dec. Ive been following this channel for the last year. Amazing info. Hope to be on interview one day lol
Jason do more videos like this! This was very insightful and entertaining. Thank you!!!
Will do!
The amount of absolute gems in this one video is incredible 🤯 Definitely gonna be rewatching for some time - preciate you sharing this with us, Jason!
I appreciate that!🙌
This is amazing! Thank you so very much for all you do. God continue to bless you and your family ❤️
You should do a video on nurses working for federal organizations (such as the VA) and how can they maximize their earnings. Would there be a benefit for a federal nurse, like myself, to move to California?? Also how about nurses working in San Diego CA and living in Tijuana (Mexico)? Thanks so much!
Good idea
@@cicciuzzu5032 yes this is something similar to what I’ve been thinking of doing
Lets be smart about our path! Thanks for sharing Jason!
You're welcome 👍
I love how you guys care for pre nurses thank you !!! Please more content
I don't want you guys to struggle like I and most other seasoned nurses in this country did when we first got started.
Please put timestamps on this video! AMAZING CONTENT!! Thank you!!
Nursing is really what u make it. Most nurses that I've seen that have the most issues r not willing 2 do different things...even change dept. Sometimes a change n dept can make a big difference n stress @ work. If it's strictly about money, change is still inevitable. Hard work goes n2 starting a business. It's daily work. I also find a lot of nurses r trying 2 work less & want more. Of course, not all, just stating what I'm seeing as I travel 2 different places.
This video is a gr8 example that hard work is necessary if we r going 2 progress financially.
You can work hard or you can work smart. The latter is better.
This channel is a great help. There are a lot of ways to skin an apple. Find the way that makes the journey delicious. What works for one person won’t work for all. This channel shows different ways to peal your Apple. Don’t like the routes listed in these videos? Then try mix and match. Or try the road untraveled. There may be a reason some trails are untraveled. The 1st step to solving a problem is to identify that there is a problem. As I stated in a prior post, when the student is ready the teacher will appear. Work at a higher paying job. Work overtime. Get a side hustle. The answer(s) are there if you are looking and can see.
Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
@@martingreenberg870 U can't work smart if u don't know ur job. Nursing is not an easy job. If u do bedside, hard work is going 2 come with it. Hard work strengthens u 2 b able 2 work smart.
@@mistermilkmanyou’re missing the point. Hardworking is not always sweating 😓 neither is working smart synonymous to laziness. I’ve worked with nurses that always pick shifts at the last minute when the hospital is desperately trying to fill the shift. The hospital literally almost always doubles the shift rate. So they wait . Work smart. Also, some nurses tried and became preceptors. The new nurses does the work and the preceptor gets time to pick extra shifts. I worked with a nurse that was always either a charge nurse or a preceptor and would pick shifts for the rest of the week. She was always working 14 nights in two weeks. On paper she was cleaning pop and turning patients for 14 days but in reality she was chilling at work. I know a nurse that’s a resource nurse barely a year after her first ever job as a nurses e. Now, she works everyday. If you’re in a state where nurses take peanuts you probably would have to work 1000 hours a week to be like others or those talking. So also choosing a better paying nursing job is working smart. I said this here before and I want to repeat it again, my brother worked everyday as a regular nurse at the bedside and died in his sleep 2021. I’m not discouraging working at the bedside but you have to be smart to survive at the bedside. You can work harder in your regular shift and have a side gig that’s less stressful. Or someone can do the heavy lifting for 30 days a month and still be okay but they’re still not better than those doing it differently.
@@A2Z84 U clearly misread my post. Hard work is relative 2 what u r doing. It's not always physical. Being a new nurse, u can't work smart if u don't know what ur doing. I worked hard learning disease processes & building my assessment skills. Being a team player helped as well. A dept makes a big difference n the physical aspect as well. If u work with vents & high acuity patients with demanding family @ the bedside, u will work hard.
Starting a business takes time & making mistakes. Every1 is not an entrepreneur. That's also a mindset. I get tired of the work smart & not hard comments. U also need 2 know what ur doing n order 2 work snart. It's all relative 2 an individual's situation. Both r necessary 4 success.
@@mistermilkman Working smart is not synonymous to negligence. Many new nurses started traveling and earning above $5k a week during the pandemic after just 6 months after their first nursing jobs. They’re still kicking and excelling. That was risky but smart since they believed they could do it and they did. Anyone that wants to work knows what they’re doing. And working smart is not synonymous to cutting corners. That’s laziness and criminal or negligence if patients are involved. Some nurses don’t like to delegate tasks. They prefer doing the “walking the pt, feeding the pt, cleaning the pt and even do their own vital signs though the hospital allows aids to help”. Anyone other nurse that delegates these tasks sometimes would have time to do other things like picking extra shifts or would probably not get burned out early to hate nursing. There are so many options where nurses can be smart. It doesn’t mean neglecting their jobs. For example, I got a contract in a city where I am already onboarded with careRev for two other facilities in same town. My contract pays less but it’s just 36hrs. I’d pick a shift with careRev in the other facilities than to do overtime at my contract because the rate is low. That might be being smart because I would have a contract that guarantees 36 hrs a week even if careRev doesn’t have shifts. I’ve experienced the other side where I stayed at a location waiting for shifts and had none whiles paying for hotel. I feel these are what we are talking about in terms of smartness and not malpractices or negligence.
Yes, this information is phenomenal. Finally digging in and choosing nursing a second career
Great conversations. I’m graduating this fall in Fl (ASN) this December and I tell any peers who will listen that they need to get out of florida. I’m moving straight to Oregon. I’ve put out maybe 6 applications directly through the hospitals and I am practically juggling these recruiters and managers. They reach out literally same day. Absolutely do not use indeed; go directly. The floor for pay is around $85k in the LCOL city I’m looking at and $125k in HCOL (both calculated as nights and weekends, my preference). 85k is basically the top of the pay scale in florida and housing is MORE expensive. Not to mention the working conditions. Looking forward to the move. Oregon is probably the best option out there in terms of income to COL if you lack the experience to get hired in the Bay Area. I care less about specialty as I do pay. Few other states where you can walk right into real estate on a new grad salary. Not going to buy for a couple years, but that’s another conversation. Want to see this interest lag take full effect before making big decisions.
Oh yeah, did I mention it’s the only state where the BON won’t touch your license for 🍃? 😎 (might make a good video topic; lots of confusion out there).
thank you for this mixture from great interviews of awesome advice!!!!
This is awesome so much great information and experience.TY!!!!!!!
This was my favorite video thus far!!
wow, thank you!
I just was wondering can you discuss- how can a single mother RN nurse with FNP certification who has more than 10 years experience start relocating to California from a different state. Do you look for a job first, a RN license, a place to stay or schools. Step by step. That will be very helpful. If you need me to book an appointment I am happy to do so. Thank you very much. Just found your channel yesterday. I think I have watched every show. 😂 binge watching
So motivating. Thanks Jason ❤
You're welcome!
Love this video
Thank you!
I earned my AS in nursing. The pay was low. Went to Chicago and the pay wasn’t that much higher but at least I was out of Florida. After four years returned to Florida to start an assisted living facility. Went bankrupt. We were competing with hotel chains. Moved to Seattle where I instantly increased my pay by 50%! Wanted to move to California but the taxes and cost of living were too high for me.
Good idea to get your associates degree. Get your RN ASAP and start earning money. Let your hospital pay for your BSN. I did. The only difference between an associate degree and BSN is the research class and the community nursing rotation. The remaining classes were none technical in nature.
The last seven years I worked at an understaffed hospital. There were all sorts of bonuses. I worked six night a week and my last year I earned a little over $200k. If I worked one double sift a week I’d have earned more.
An unfortunate thing is my hospital classified people earning over $125k as ‘highly compensated employees “. That meant instead of caping my 401(k) at 20% of my gross my cap was 11%. I never developed a side hustle. Now that I’m retired I’m looking for one.
Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
Wow, what a story. Did you end up retiring with a healthy pension or balance in your retirement accounts?
A happy ending. Since arriving in Seattle 20 years ago I bought a condo and have IRAs and taxable account of slightly over $1mm. As I worked until 70 my social security and small federal pension is enough to live on.
I feel blessed I am where I am. Was a failure until age 40. Outside of a tour of duty with the USAF I couldn’t get a decent job. I only went to nursing school because my roommate did. Blood & guts turns my stomach. No surprise I winded up in psych. My advice is avoid psych. Not a lot of opportunities to travel. Many comprehensive hospitals have no psych units.
I backed into retirement. I worked in low paying jobs for a decade in both Chicago and south Florida. What saved me financially was moving to Seattle. It doesn’t pay as well as California but does pay better than many locations.
My retirement savings didn’t start, because I wasn’t making much more than survival wages, until I was 50. Didn’t do anything special like you teach. Work in California at Kaiser and work lots of OT. At the VA there was virtually no OT. I was there ~12 years and went from $70-100k. Traveled a year. I owned a condo I had to pay a mortgage which is suboptimal for traveling. After a year I missed Seattle so I took a job at a hospital with a bad reputation and poor staffing until something else showed up. Nothing did. Spent seven years there. Maxed my 401(k) out despite only being able to contribute 11 vs. 20%. Maxed my IRA out. I did this all wrong.
Retirement plans work on the principle of compounding. The sooner you start the better. The more you contribute, especially early on, the greater the size of your retirement snowball. Putting in large amounts at the end worked for me thank God. If I’d been able to contribute smaller amounts over a longer period life would be better.
I would tell my co-workers about this. Constantly. The younger co-workers were crying about student loan repayments. Truly a major PIA financially speaking. I told them the good news. This is a financial problem. Throw money at it and the problem would go away. Pay off your student loans. Start with the 401(k) at the 6% level for the match. Get into the habit of funding your 401(k):and later your Roth IRA. How? Not with a side hustle. Starting a business is hard and 50% go glub-glub-glub in the 1st year. Pick up an extra shift or two each week or pay period. The extra money goes toward paying off debts and retirement accounts.
This strategy worked for me. It would have worked better for my 20 & 30 year old coworkers. I’m afraid they saw me as a curmudgeon and didn’t listen. As a result, when I retired in January they were still in student loan debt and not saving or investing for retirement. True, I was in my 60’s and they were in their 20-30’s. I was the poster child of what not to do and old enough to be their grandfather. They weren’t in a space to hear what I was saying. I was trying to throw them a financial life preserver. They saw my advice as a financial brick. They still are in a mountain of debt.
There is a saying, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. This never happened for me. I have to figure all this stuff out by myself. No one around me was interested in things financial. Maybe there is another way to financial freedom. I haven’t been able to figure that way out. I hope when my coworkers come to the conclusion that they need to start saving for retirement, someone will be there for them.
I figure it out. There are three ways to make money in this world. Earn it. Steal it. Marry it. The last two ways weren’t available to me. I filed BK after having a 40 bed ALF. I thought big but didn’t have the additional capital or business acumen to run a business. So for me the equation was do some overtime (not nearly as much as you suggest) and invest in my 401(k), Roth IRA, have a taxable account, and buy a place to live. Praise be to God, even starting very late in life, this plan worked for me. Do something smart early in your life, like becoming a RN, develop a side hustle, make a lot of money but live below your means. This is a path to financial success. If teachers can retire successfully after earning less than a RN, other people can retire comfortably too. Like Nike says, “Just Do It.” Do something. Anything. There are many ways to get to the financial goal line. Find one, or more, and work your plan. Plan your work. End of rant.
There is a line from a movie I LOVE. It all works out in the end. If it hasn’t worked out then it isn’t the end.
Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
Great advice all cramp into a great video!! 🎉🎉
Thank you!
Genius move Jason!
Thank you! 🙏
Lol funny i watch these videos several years. I graduated past May. Making 60$/h now. Saving for a house next year hopefully
Thank you, there must be part 2❤
I 2nd this!!!!
I love watching and listening to fellow nurseprenuers!! Awesome video..I agree that we can use the power of realestate to depreciate our assets!
Hi! Both my girlfriend and I are currently in the ADN program in Wisconsin. We want to move out to California once we get our degree. Any recommendations on this path?
I made a video a long time ago laying out the steps for out-of-state nurses to move to California.
Can u do video about cna and how much they make and how many hours they can work overtime
Tnaks for this Useful video !
You're welcome!
Hello 16,10 as a property manager, I can see a better future with the nursing field since this testemony. Most nurses want to work over 40hr but I am very glad to see that there are possiblilities to work only part time 3 days and do other jobs. Property Management pays very little and I wander what positions withing health care require the least amount of studies and are welcoming to start at 50 years old lady ....
Thank you for this post! Lots of gems ❤
You're so welcome!
Love it as always ❤
Thank you! 😊
Keep on inspiring
as a bsn student.. like where do i start soo many good info..tysm
Start by watching our videos 😋
I live in NY and you’re making me wanna move to Cali!! ❤
Do it!
This is the video , i was finding, since know the word "NURSING"
Thank you for this helpful video. Do you think as a new graduate nurse, I need to move to North Carolina to start?
If your goal is to make more money, I would NEVER recommend that anyone move to North Carolina.
@@NursesToRiches I want to make more money
great video
You da man Jason. Thanks for continuing to bring that heat 🥵🥵
I’ve been a nurse for many years but obviously not making the right moves. At this point, I need to learn EPIC, and have no idea how. Can anyone advise me. I attempted by getting hired on at a hospital, but they assumed I knew the in & outs of EPIC and they were very disappointed with me.
I don’t want to stay in long term care.
Epic is super easy, but why didn’t the hospital want to train you to use it?
Any hospital I've ever worked for has always provided training on whatever charting system they were using. If a hospital expects you to know their charting system and is unwilling to train you, it's not a hospital you want to work in. Trust me. Keep looking. You'll find something else. Don't be too impatient, it'll take time.
@@BrianMakesBenjamins I was under the impression that they would teach me. I vaguely remember an all day class on EPIC with an educator my first week. The other 2-3 nurses present were travelers and already familiar, I was completely lost having never ever worked with it. We had test at end of day and I failed.
Then on my actual floor, I was training with a 22 year old new grad and she was in shock I wouldn’t know the EPIC. She is used to working alongside travelers and students already familiar with it. I was to never measure up for her showing me once, all the things, and putting me to do all for some patients and check me. Anyway…I was asking for to much to want and need every detail and perhaps I’d need it repeated until it all clicked.
But no, I was terminated.
I had moved even to another state for this job. All hospitals around are owned by the same company.
@@NursesToRiches Thank you, you definitely raise my hopes. I really cannot understand the hate I faced. One RN there gave me a print-out about a nearby RN Refresher Course, I was in shock, so embarrassed.
hlo sir , please make a seperate video for California....how we can apply for nursing job in California....I just completed my graduation Bsc.( Hons.) nursing and I'm from India and I want to apply for California.... describe each things please sir reply me I need help.... I'm waiting....
How do I pay for my 20k debt? With only a long term care experience but with 14 years nursing experience
Im a BSN graduate and worked as an RN for 2 years in total in Philippines and Dubai before veering off track. I have been outside of nursing for 15 years, working in the corporate world from 2008 to 2023. How can I transition back to nursing? Is it too late? 😢😅
It's definitely not too late. You might need to take some continuing education classes and a refresher course, then apply for your nursing license and start applying for jobs. You will probably have to settle for any place that's willing to hire you so that you may gain some experience as a nurse and then you will be able to use that as leverage to get a job in a place you'll be much happier with.
@@NursesToRiches thank you so much for your advice 😍❤️🙏
What about psychiatric nurses? Are they well paid?
Anybody help me plz im in last year nursing college but im a weak student only study when exams are near and want to become USRN.. I want to know how i start preparing as i need to understand basics first so which only 1 book should i consider which helps for basics and for nclex both plzzZz help 😢😢😢
Saunders comprehensive review for the nclex review is a great resource. Also get Mark Klimek audios. Google them.
Leave your email address and I would send you materials that I have. If you’re not feeling okay about your regular email you can create a new one and I would give you the pdf of the book and the audios if they’re still active
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I’m confused
The First Lady works prn but has a 401??
She's benefited, not PRN. She said she's ultimately going to switch to PRN.
@@NursesToRiches so she is full time ?
She said in the video that she works 36 hours per week...
So how did she get to 100. an hour as a Labor Delivery nurse? I work at a hospital outside of Philadelphia as a Tech. I think the nurse who is a new hire on a medsurge floor makes around $45. an hour ….
Simple answer. I mention it in all of my videos: Northern California.
That’s standard northern Cali staff pay
Those of you guys in tech always belittle people in other fields especially nursing, you feel they earn peanut. Lots of nurses makes way more decent pay than some tech guys. There are different genre of nursing
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Why didnt the first lady mention that she got paid from a settlement which allowed her to increase her NW. Like why leave that out when u are talking about growing your money?
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I don’t know how anyone is making money? I make 22$/hr in Louisiana working med surg
How do I get out of debt
First step: watch our videos. Second step: take action.
@@NursesToRiches the thing is I’ve exhausted my savings and have no money saved to become a travel nurse. A friend told me to save at least 5,000 to pay for the travel and housing prior to first travel check, and to have emergency money in case I get canceled.
Are you an RN or LPN? $22 is very low
U can become a travel nurse without savings if u go before Xmas. After Xmas is when the cancellations and rate drops happens. I started as a travel nurse during COVID with hardly any savings and glad I did. U can also take out a 0% interest credit card for 21 months to float u through a few weeks til payday. There’s always options
@@rae7269 $22 is cna/tech money.
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