And Bobby Sue still has no idea what hours nursy Suzzanne will be forced to
work
if she wants a job. Forget weekends and evenings. She'll be either working or
on
call at ALL times for at least the first 5 years of her career.

Tuesday Thursday and Fridays, plus one weekend per month. 33 hours per week.
Starting salary 69K. In exchange for 18 months of work, her last year of school
is payed for. Pretty typical deal here in NY, though she was slow to decide on
a specialty, so some classmates got better deals. She could have worked right
here, walking distance to Jamaica Hosp., but the salary was nearly 9K less. One
of her classmates will start at 77K. Not bad at all.
Billy Jane, it's nearly 2004. The nurse shortage is still terrible because
people like you feel a medical career is not rewarding enough. Many of the
graduates are of a very low caliber with no contact skills and weak language
skills. The terrible part is that many of the ethnic minorities in her class,
were unable to make the same type of deals, dispite having good grades.
Oh, and by the way, Suzanne will be a nurse practitioner 4 years from now.
As usual you know ZERO!!!

RB