California prisons: big bucks for health care workers

[drsaddam]

From these physician assistant job ads:Correctional Facility, CA - Part-Time or Full-Time Physician Assistant

Opportunities at many CA Correctional Facilities throughout the state. Ten hour shifts. $95-135/hr depending on prison. Basic Urgent Care work. Need to be independent contractor with own malpractice insurance which we would assist you

Comments

[norvelllouwho]

Just remember, you are being compensated so well for those jobs because you are putting a dollar value on your safety. That said, I love looking at the want ads for nurses and just giggling to myself at the insane wages and the fact that there are bazillions of jobs out there.

[drsaddam]

Absolutely. It's interesting that around 1996, it was hard for some nurses to find jobs, because hospitals were laying off. I just met a nurse who graduated in '96 and couldn't find a job. The reason may have come from the severe cost-cutting by HMOs then, in which they got rid of RNs and replaced them with CNAs or LVNs.

I was also looking at business jobs in government contracts. Also huge pay.

I'm thinking of volunteer tutoring at a local prison.

[norvelllouwho]

http://allnurses.com/forums/f8/proof-there-s-no-nursing-shortage-show-rn-s-money-222317.html

Proof there's no nursing shortage. After CA prisons raised their pay of staff nurses, there are lots of nurses waiting in line to get hired!