-- Pay is high and benefits are great. She's loving it
and she's doing the dirty work!
I consider starting salary of 70+ to be pretty reasonable for a person straight
out of nursing school.

Support that claim. Associate degree RN's generally start at 20/hr...if they're lucky...a four year degreed nurse will start
slightly higher. Private hospitals generally pay the going rate in the area. Also, while it's nice to have "A's", that is not
an indicator of nursing ability. A nurse can be book smart but really poor on the floor. Common sense and practical;ity are
what I look for when I hire nurse's, not book smarts. Nurse practitioner's, with a MS in their particular field, command the
salaries you speak of and are able to prescribe some drugs and treatments much like a PA does.
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