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Nursing question -is it as "lucrative"/in demand as it once was?
Posted on 4/30/25 at 11:40 am
Posted on 4/30/25 at 11:40 am
Been wondering about this for a while, but the "What do modern women bring to a relationships" thread prompted me to finally ask.
Got a friend that is a RN and worked in the ER through COVID, but left the ER more than a year ago due to stress and over the last 3-ish years has bounced around from wanting to be a travel nurse (but "struggled" to find the right opportunity), to in-home pediatric care to hospice to not being able to find a job on her weeks off.
Is it the candidate or the market need for nurses?
Got a friend that is a RN and worked in the ER through COVID, but left the ER more than a year ago due to stress and over the last 3-ish years has bounced around from wanting to be a travel nurse (but "struggled" to find the right opportunity), to in-home pediatric care to hospice to not being able to find a job on her weeks off.
Is it the candidate or the market need for nurses?
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Posted on 4/30/25 at 11:41 am to CMBears1259
They are making more money than ever
Posted on 4/30/25 at 11:42 am to CMBears1259
The market for nurses is still MASSIVE. They’re just not being paid the insane travel wages they were during covid. That was completely unsustainable.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 11:42 am to CMBears1259
Yes
Posted on 4/30/25 at 11:42 am to CMBears1259
Yes, still lucrative...
Sounds like she is damaged goods
Sounds like she is damaged goods
Posted on 4/30/25 at 11:43 am to Cosmo
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They are making more money than ever
They’re making WAY less than during COVID. It’s still a very much in demand field, and the pay is ok. The hours kind of suck, and you have to deal with society all day which would be horrible.
Like anyone else, they got used to the exorbitant wages they were paid during Covid, and so now they think they got a “pay cut.”
Posted on 4/30/25 at 11:45 am to CMBears1259
My wife's been a RN for over 20 years. She's done everything from ER to home health, travke nursing, etc.
She knows somebody at every hospital within an hour and a half and could easily get another job tomorrow.
I keep wanting her to quit Full Time to go PRN and just work some weekend shifts. I'm retired and no kids at home, so weekends mean nothing to us. She would have a lot more time to go fishing with me, that she really enjoys.
She knows somebody at every hospital within an hour and a half and could easily get another job tomorrow.
I keep wanting her to quit Full Time to go PRN and just work some weekend shifts. I'm retired and no kids at home, so weekends mean nothing to us. She would have a lot more time to go fishing with me, that she really enjoys.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:07 pm to CMBears1259
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travel nurse (but "struggled" to find the right opportunity), to in-home pediatric care to hospice to not being able to find a job on her weeks off.
You already know the answer.
My sister is a "traveling" nurse and has been employed at the same joint in the Northeast for years. Another in my family was employed as a surgical nurse for the same place for the last 20? years and just retired.
Pulling up Memorial Hermann's site, there are nursing positions for *every* shift, in every location in Houston, including weekend only shifts, days, nights, etc. And it's clear from how many links about "living in Houston" they include in most of the postings that they expect they may have to reach all over the state or country to fill it.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:14 pm to CMBears1259
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Got a friend that is a RN and worked in the ER through COVID, but left the ER more than a year ago due to stress and over the last 3-ish years has bounced around from wanting to be a travel nurse (but "struggled" to find the right opportunity), to in-home pediatric care to hospice to not being able to find a job on her weeks off.
Sounds like your friend is just burned out on being a nurse….
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:17 pm to El Segundo Guy
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She would have a lot more time to go fishing with me, that she really enjoys.
I hope you treat her well because that is a rare woman
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:24 pm to Beessnax
She loves it man. I originally bought a 19' boat a few years ago, thinking I would always be going by myself. Less than 2 years later, I had to go to a 24' bay boat because she enjoys going as much as I do.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:29 pm to CMBears1259
Nursing question -is it as "lucrative"/in demand as it once was?
very lucrative and is very high in demand as people still get sick and/or have health related issues ..
Its really up to the nurse as to how successful they want to be..
-a shift RN in a hospital will typically make ~75K (location will have an effect) and will make a tad more with charge & diff pay
-clinic nurse generally make a lttle less but wont have to work nights, weekends or holidays
-specialty nurses make alot more (NP, CRNA, drug reps)
-there are also situations where you can have hybrid set ups where an RN can work case management (lots of phone & zoom w/ Dr.'s, Insurance, etc) and pick up 1 or 2 shifts prn every other weekend or similar. Easily make 100K which is really great money as an RN that is not a CRNA, etc.(full time employee for insurance company & prn @ hospital)
-there are also agency and travel jobs that pay well but the schedules are all over the place. One can make really good money as an RN, depends on what you really want out of it.
very lucrative and is very high in demand as people still get sick and/or have health related issues ..
Its really up to the nurse as to how successful they want to be..
-a shift RN in a hospital will typically make ~75K (location will have an effect) and will make a tad more with charge & diff pay
-clinic nurse generally make a lttle less but wont have to work nights, weekends or holidays
-specialty nurses make alot more (NP, CRNA, drug reps)
-there are also situations where you can have hybrid set ups where an RN can work case management (lots of phone & zoom w/ Dr.'s, Insurance, etc) and pick up 1 or 2 shifts prn every other weekend or similar. Easily make 100K which is really great money as an RN that is not a CRNA, etc.(full time employee for insurance company & prn @ hospital)
-there are also agency and travel jobs that pay well but the schedules are all over the place. One can make really good money as an RN, depends on what you really want out of it.
This post was edited on 4/30/25 at 12:34 pm
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:37 pm to CMBears1259
Wife makes 6 figs doing home health and has a company car and gas card. She also has time to get the kids to and from school if needed. Not too many careers offer that kind of flexibility.
She got burnt out on bedside after the first 5 years or so.
She got burnt out on bedside after the first 5 years or so.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:38 pm to LNCHBOX
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Wife makes 6 figs doing home health and has a company car and gas card. She also has time to get the kids to and from school if needed. Not too many careers offer that kind of flexibility.
She got burnt out on bedside after the first 5 years or so.
Do we have the same wife?
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:39 pm to BoogaBear
Sure hope not 
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:42 pm to LNCHBOX
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Sure hope not
Tell you what, you keep her and I'll see if mine shows back up
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:52 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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They’re making WAY less than during COVID. It’s still a very much in demand field, and the pay is ok. The hours kind of suck, and you have to deal with society all day which would be horrible. Like anyone else, they got used to the exorbitant wages they were paid during Covid, and so now they think they got a “pay cut.”
I guess if you were a “traveler” making MD $ during Covid you have seen a pay cut, but for the rest of us those travelers were a real boon to our pay - as the hospitals finally(after 4 years) figured out that its WAY cheaper to simply pay the nurses you already have a better wage - than continually onboard new travelers and/or new hires.
Shocker, right ?
Anyways, I make almost triple what I made when I started 12 years ago. With pickup shifts + overtime my wife is able to stay home c kiddos. 6% matching retirement + good insurance.
If you can handle the stress and you don’t mind bodily fluids, it’s a great career, especially as a male(no not for that reason, either).
This post was edited on 4/30/25 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:52 pm to CMBears1259
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Is it the candidate or the market need for nurses?
You really didn't provide enough information about your nurse friend for anyone to provide you with an appropriate and accurate response.
How long was your friend a nurse before working a couple of year through covid?
How old is your friend? When he/she left the ER did he/she leave professionally, or did he/she burn a bridge when quitting the ER?
As far as the current market for nursing- nurses are still in high demand, however the issue has always been about wages that are less than desirable for the type of work required and the responsibilities that fall on the nurse that cannot be delegated to lesser-licensed or nonlicensed staff.
Another issue in nursing is post-covid people in general (patients and especially their families) have a tremendous amount of audacity and are extremely rude to staff in general, but especially nursing staff.
There are endless opportunities for an RN with a decent amount of experience and an unencumbered nursing license.
Based on the very limited information you provided - I would say that maybe your friend hasn't found his/her passion in nursing (or the area that she thrives in) OR your friend burned a bridge or several and is blacklisted somewhere - of the record of course.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 1:18 pm to CMBears1259
“the market need for nurses”
Big shortage in Central Louisiana and has been that way ever since I graduated 1975.Around graduation time I probably got 150 solicittions for hospital jobs,mostly on Louisiana .Everybody in the class did.I had a job lined up before I graduated.
I did 35 years,31 full time ICU,4 in dialysis and some part time E.R.I quit when EMR’s went into effect,besides my shoulders were wrecked from pulling and turning all the obese pts.we were inundated with starting late ‘90s.
Lots of nurses just don’t want to work hospital jobs doing pt.care,can’t really blame them.Pt’s are sicker and fatter,just hard to deal with.Factor in night shift,weekends and holidays,lots of downsides.It’s really not a good job for women with children,pt.care is physically,emotionally and intellectually exhausting.Just don’t have a lot left when they get home to do “mother” things.
Now all the nurses want to become NP’s,better pay,better hours and non physical.
Talking about fishing,that’s how my wife and I got started.I fished a lot and my fishing partner moved to Houston,she was a widow and she mentioned something about how she would love to go fishing one day.I started taking her,taught her to bass fish and she was good at it.She had couple small boys,took them a lot ,have picnics on the shore,etc.One thing led to another and we got married.Went fishing on our honeymoon,White River Arkansas trout fishing.
We,fished a lot for a long time but she developed this weird sun allergy where she would break out in a rash and her feet and ankles would swell up.
Now we have a pond we she can go little while early or late.
Big shortage in Central Louisiana and has been that way ever since I graduated 1975.Around graduation time I probably got 150 solicittions for hospital jobs,mostly on Louisiana .Everybody in the class did.I had a job lined up before I graduated.
I did 35 years,31 full time ICU,4 in dialysis and some part time E.R.I quit when EMR’s went into effect,besides my shoulders were wrecked from pulling and turning all the obese pts.we were inundated with starting late ‘90s.
Lots of nurses just don’t want to work hospital jobs doing pt.care,can’t really blame them.Pt’s are sicker and fatter,just hard to deal with.Factor in night shift,weekends and holidays,lots of downsides.It’s really not a good job for women with children,pt.care is physically,emotionally and intellectually exhausting.Just don’t have a lot left when they get home to do “mother” things.
Now all the nurses want to become NP’s,better pay,better hours and non physical.
Talking about fishing,that’s how my wife and I got started.I fished a lot and my fishing partner moved to Houston,she was a widow and she mentioned something about how she would love to go fishing one day.I started taking her,taught her to bass fish and she was good at it.She had couple small boys,took them a lot ,have picnics on the shore,etc.One thing led to another and we got married.Went fishing on our honeymoon,White River Arkansas trout fishing.
We,fished a lot for a long time but she developed this weird sun allergy where she would break out in a rash and her feet and ankles would swell up.
Now we have a pond we she can go little while early or late.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 1:27 pm to CMBears1259
The travel contracts are crap compared to what they used to be. As of now they basically barely pay higher than a regular staff job but let you travel to a different part of the country. During COVID you could pull in 5-10x your normal salary
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