I am very curious

Awesome! I've already filmed the video, just have to finish editing it. It'll go live next Sunday.

Does Home Health experience or other specialty count toward experience..

Yes, it does 🙂.

@@NursesToRiches Thx you again.

Wow, that's a big statement and it means a lot to me. Thanks!

Thank you Sharon. You're the best!

That’s the plan, thanks!

Lol, that's a great compliment. Thanks!

Thank you so much!

You're damn right about that lol. It took me 8 months of applying for every single job posting before I got a job at Kaiser. I will be posting video on the steps I took to get hired though.

Don’t stop took me 4 years first time. I’ve since left and came back and not too hard. Keep trying. Don’t give up. Apply all the time. Especially in Dec and January a lot of people aren’t applying those months. That’s when I got in.

@@Blurrystarscattered I finally got a job! Starting next month. Took about 5-6 months of applying. Thanks :)

Congrats!

Hi, I hope you don't mind me asking, but how are the benefits and differentials in Kaiser as compared to your previous hospital? Thank you .

Your comments give me motivation to keep posting videos. Thank you!

@@NursesToRiches Your and Monica’s story give me and many others motivation. Inspirational couple

Wow, you're gassing me up haha. I will paste here what I said to someone in an email (she got a job offer a few days after applying from Texas): It took Monica about 3 months to get a job offer. She interviewed with 3 different hospitals a total of 6 times. It was very frustrating for her because she worked medsurg for her first 2 years as a nurse. Then, the next year, right before we moved here she worked endoscopy. So, as you can see, it was more difficult for her to get a job than it was for me because she was applying for medsurg jobs here in California and she did not have recent medsurg experience in her resume. But, ultimately she was offered a position in a medsurg unit at a Dignity Health hospital 1 hour away from our home. During her first week of orientation there she got a call with a job offer from Kaiser. She actually quit her dignity job immediately so she could start the orientation process with Kaiser the next week. I, on the other hand, worked in the ED in NY and had 3 years of ED experience and 1 year of Tele experience before I began to apply for work here in California. What I would say to you is that you should start applying as soon as your license is approved. And, come visit California in the meantime to get a better feel for where you really want to live. Also, it took me a few weeks to get a job offer for Sutter (I had my interviews from home in NYC. These days most interviews will be done through zoom), but took me 8 months of applying to Kaiser before I could even get a job interview. So, if you don't mind working at a place that is not your first choice, you'll be able to find a job in much less time than having to wait for an interview/job offer at one that is your first choice. Lastly, to prepare for an interview, go on Google and do your research on the hospital you're applying for and if you can find any info about the the specific unit you're interested in, read all up on it. Learn about the hospital's mission statement and history. Be yourself. Tell them your goal is to treat every patient as if they are a family member. That you care deeply about every single one of them and you want to make sure they have a valuable experience every time they come to the hospital. If you don't know the answer to something tell them you do not proceed until you can get clarification and you would first go to the hospital policy, and if you can't find the answer you ask a coworker to point you in the right direction. And you will always circle back with the doctor to. Make sure you're all on the same page. Good luck and let me know how it goes!

@@NursesToRiches That was a great response, and very helpful. Thank you so much. Maybe I'll give you a shout when I make my way out to visit. I grew up on Beale AFB about an hour north of Sacramento. Thanks again, my friend.

Thanks dude! You're awesome!

Than you so much! I have great videos lined up.

It's crazy isn't it?!

@@NursesToRiches yes! Only earn around £20 to £27 per hour as an agency nurse ($24 -$33) and that's pretty good compared to £17 Hour ($20) in a job.

That sounds awful considering the cost of living is pretty high over there. But at least you guys have universal health care and a lot of other benefits 🙂.

You're welcome! Thanks for the comment!

Thank you! I'm glad you found this video helpful 🙂

The grass is not always greener on the other side but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get where you wanna be in life. I used to work at Sutter and miss working there every single day. But I totally get where you're coming from. Best of luck to you!

@@NursesToRiches thank you! I’m just keeping the mindset, if it’s meant to be, it’ll be. Either way, I’m blessed.

@@EightTwentyTwo for sure. Let me know how it goes 🙏🏼

Yes. How much tax, Living costs and insurances?

Hi Sandy, I have that video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gpNlgq-nyOCck2g.html

Hi, if you look at the chart, each line shows the rate for their respective shift (day, evening, or nights). So, yes, the rates in the charts do include the differentials.

Over 75k per year? They pay well over 75k per year. Sutter Sacramento nurses actually earn more than Sutter Roseville nurses. I work with one nurse now that left Sutter Sacramento but was making $83/hr with about 10 years of experience.

Dignity Health is the lowest-paying of all of them in this area. I'm still trying to secure their contract so I can make a video about it.

Kaiser for sure. I made a video about almost every single benefit Kaiser offers (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a69peLxzq9a1e6c.html) but I will make a video about the benefits at the hospitals as well.

You are not the first to ask me this and I do have the Kaiser contract that includes LVN salaries. I will make a video about it if you'd like.

@@NursesToRiches That would be great! Thank you so much!

Yes, I have other videos in my channel that break it down even more but essentially every Kaiser hospital from the bay area to Sacramento and Fresno ask share the same contract and wage schedule/structure. So, every Kaiser in three Northern California region will pay their nurses the same. The nurses in Southern California, however, have a different contract they state with one another, but they too essentially use the same contract and follow the same wages.

Ask of the Kaiser Permanente Hospitals in SoCal pay $10 to $20 less per hour than Northern California Kaiser hospitals. I will be posting a video on August 29th showing exact salaries.

@@NursesToRichesThank you! you are the best! I always looking forward for your videos!

@@stellapio5595 KP SoCal is under UNAC and generally pays about $20 less per hour. But they have great benefits for school thru Ben Hudnall.

You would start at a step 5 because Kaiser will give you 1step for every two years of experience, up to a max of 10 years of outside experience. So, they'd start you at a step 5.

Thank you for the info!

@@heidihatley9923 you're welcome!

Sutter does not have a weekend position differential, but what they do offer is 1.5x pay for a nurse that works in their weekend off, and 1.5x for every consecutive weekend worked thereafter. Kaiser, on the other hand, has both a 10% differential for accepting an every weekend position, or pay of 2.0x the regular rate for coming in on a weekend you have off.

@@NursesToRiches Is the 1.5x pay to work unscheduled weekend also true for part time? After 8 hour shift, is it double pay if someone stays over the 8 hours to work longer?

It is also true for part time employees. But they will not pay you double time at Sutter after the 8th hour if it's on your weekend off. The double time at Sutter will only apply if you work over 12 hours.

The rates here are based on how many years of experience you have with the hospital. I couldn't make it based on how many years you have outside of the hospital because each hospital has different parameters for how much outside experience they accept.

Oh definitely. Every per diem nurse I know of works as often as they want to work. But, as a new employee, you are coming in with no seniority so there's always the chance that per diem nurses with more seniority will get shifts you want to work.

Hi, I never worked in the OR so I can't speak for that unit. But Sutter Sacramento definitely pays more than Sutter Roseville (by around 5 dollars more per hour) but you also have to pay for parking in Sutter Sacramento, so it kind of cancels itself out. The work culture at Sutter is way better than Kaiser. But you will still have some nurses (as is in every hospital) who think they know it all and are better than everyone else. But, from my experience, working at Sutter was so much better than what how I currently feel working for Kaiser. I felt a sense of community at Sutter. I don't feel that at Kaiser because we are too busy to even sit down and talk to one another. And Sutter is much less competitive than Kaiser. You'll definitely be able to get a job there before you get one at Kaiser or UC Davis.

I have the contracts to all of these hospitals and I worked for 2 of them.

@@NursesToRiches Thank you! Such helpful content!

@@katiemarone1752 you're welcome! I have future videos comparing Northern California vs Southern California's Kaiser hourly rates, and another comparing every rate from all the UC hospitals vs Stanford vs Kaiser.

Hi! Yes, absolutely. Kaiser part time employees working 20 hours per week or more get all of the benefits that employees working full time receive. I have a video breaking down the benefits here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a69peLxzq9a1e6c.html

@@NursesToRiches Thank you so much for your quick respobse!

@@lindalr4572 you're welcome!

Yup, that is correct 🙂.

Yes because they count any type of experience working as an RN as credited experience

@@NursesToRiches gotcha, good to know/hear. Are travel contracts for Kaiser hard to come by? Or are they as common and available as any other travel opportunity?

@@balla2828 if you use AMN as your travel agency they mostly work with Kaiser. So it'll be easy finding contracts at kaiser

@@NursesToRiches appreciate you brotha! Thank you.

One more question, what specialities would make a nurse more appealing to Kaiser hospitals?

Hi there! You're in luck because Kaiser and Sutter hire both, ADNs and BSN trained nurses. And, if you work in home health you might be able to find a job quicker as a home health nurse within Kaiser, but will take much longer if you want to get into medsurg (Tele will be nearly impossible because Kaiser does not like having to train nurses into positions they've never held before unless they're a new grad). BTW, about half of the nurses I work with have their ADNs but many of them are also back in school getting their BSN.

@@NursesToRiches Thank you for your response and I love all your videos! God bless 🙏🏾

You're welcome and thank you so much for watching!

What's benhud? We do get tuition reimbursement but it sucks in my opinion. Here's the text from the contract: "Effective January 1, 2019, Nurses working 20 or more hours per week may be reimbursed up to $2,500 per calendar year for tuition and continuing education credits. Of the overall total reimbursement, Nurses may submit up to five hundred dollars ($500) for education-related travel and lodging expenses." In NYC we used to get $16,500 per calendar year. But, we do get a 10% weekend differential which is awesome!

@@NursesToRiches Yuck! That is a bad reimbursement. :( BenHud is short for Ben Hudnall Memorial Trust which is an organization that our unions in Socal, Oregon, and Hawaii partner with to offer free tuition, laptop borrowing, books, other classes to our members. And it's not like reimbursement. It's BenHud paying your tuition upfront for the classes you take and it's 100% for BSN and MSN then $5,600 for DNP. KP Socal offers $3000 reimbursement additional.

Yeah it's almost like they don't want us to pursue advanced degrees. Also, I thought this was the text from the KP contract in SoCal: "Nurses regularly scheduled 20 hours or more may be reimbursed up to two thousand three hundred dollars ($2300.00) per calendar year for tuition and for courses, certificate programs, workshops, seminars, and professional conferences that are clinically relevant to the RN’s area of clinical specialty and will enhance the knowledge base and skills in providing expert patient care. Of the overall total reimbursement, nurses may submit up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) for education related travel and lodging expenses."

Nvm that's the text from the Kaiser in LA. This is all I could find from the other SoCal Kaiser contract: "The Employer’s standard education tuition reimbursement program will apply to Health Care Professionals who successfully complete approved courses." But there's no mention of how much they actually reimburse...

@@NursesToRiches Not sure what contract LA is in but for sure KP San Diego give $3K per year for reimbursement. We are UNAC here but BenHud isn't in the language, it's separate. It's under BHMT.ORG and partners with several unions in KP which is why I was surprised. They really promote advanced degrees here and a lot of folks have MSN. I'm in the program for BSN and I would have to drop it if I accept the position in Sac. :( But you guys pay a lot more base. Not sure where I would fall (2.5 years w KP, 10 years total in my specialty) but you all still get more. Do you get bonuses, too? We do like $3K a year approx. Do you guys have good healthcare benefits? We have no deductible/no premiums, ER-$50, routine visit-$5 or 10? Specialty-$10, meds-$10. Dental is all over the place. Vision is $180/year or something like that.

A regular nurse has a schedule of days that are assigned for him/get to work every week. They also receive health insurance, dental insurance, a pension, and many other benefits. A per diem nurse does not have a schedule of days they must always follow. Instead they put their availability in a calendar and then get called and asked if they would be available to work on days that the department is short staffed. Per diem nurses are used to fill in gaps in the schedule. They also do not receive health insurance or dental insurance. But, per diem nurses that work for Kaiser do get the benefit of qualifying for a pension as long as they work a minimum of 1000 hours per year.

Thanks a lot for explaining. I am on the way to finish my ADN. Will finish my bsn. Then, will see you somewhere in Sacramento!!! ❤️

@@Azzymantried awesome! BSN is definitely the way to go! You will have a hire chance of employment compared to an ADN nurse.

Unfortunately no because it's not public information. Only Kaiser employees have access to it.

@@NursesToRiches Gotcha that makes sense.

Yes, you do not receive the benefit of health or dental insurance; you don't accrue paid time off; if the census is very low or the hospital is losing money, you might not be called in to work extra shifts; and, at a place like Kaiser you only qualify for pension benefits when you work a minimum of 1,000 hours per year.

@@NursesToRiches I see. And do the policies regarding run pay, working more than 8 hours to get 1.5 times pay and working more than 12 hours to get 2 times pay still apply for per DM nurses? Also from your wife’s experience ( since she works per DM) does she ever have difficulty getting hours to work? Thanks

@@RedFaceeee Per diem nurses qualify for all of the California overtime laws (1.5x pay for more than 8 hours worked or more than 40 hours in one week, and double pay after 12 hours) but they don't qualify for run pay, meaning they don't get the 6th day premium, 7th day double time, or continuous overtime after the 7th day. My wife could work every single day of the year if she wanted to because they're always begging her to come in or stay late.

@@NursesToRiches You’re the best. Thanks for the detailed response. I am a new grad and I wonna work 10-15 years as a nurse then retire. Which route, per DM or staff nurse, do you think would be a better option to make the most money over 10-15 yrs?

If you're single and need benefits, then I would recommend going for a benefited position instead of per diem. That is, unless, you are willing to work per diem and work extra hours to pay for your own health insurance out of pocket. Health insurance can be pretty expensive (average around $500 per month, and if you get sick you will have to pay thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses before the insurer will cover any medical care you might receive). However, if you are married, or planning to get married, or have a domestic partner, you will be able to get insurance through them. That's what Monica and I do. I work part time but receive full-time benefits so that she can work per diem and get her insurance through me.

There are. I've interviewed many and I work with several.

Yes, but I believe it's on a case by case basis with experience gained outside of the country.

I'll have to do my research because I'm not a lawyer on the topic but I can make a video about it. I have coworkers that moved from the UK and Canada to the US and are now licensed in the US.

@@NursesToRiches alternatively interview a few people who specialise in that. They may be glad for the exposure and sponsor you. Additionally, interview the people you know and their recruiters. I began exploring it several times in the past but never all the way through. A friend did it, went all the way to top job then came back a few years ago, back to university and now teaches on nursing degrees.

Haha, I used to work at Sutter. I do miss that place but I'm never leaving my job, lol. I know many nurses that do per diem at Kaiser because the pay is so high.

Absolutely! We have so many nurses with their ADN, and there is no difference in pay between ADN and BSN.

It applies to every unit because all nurses are paid the same no matter the specialty.

@@NursesToRiches Does this apply to outpatient or procedural types of nursing as well? For example GI endoscopy, or interventional radiology, cath lab etc?

@@itoen9080 Yes, the pay will be the same for anyone in those positions.

Hey thank you so much for the reply! Will you ever make a video on average amount of vacation? For example I know Kaiser pays more but does UCD have more paid time off?

@@itoen9080 this is a great idea. I'll make a video about it 😁

Hi! each hospital is different. But many hospitals here have a day shift rate (which is just the base pay), an evening shift rate (which is a differential that is added to the day shift rate), and a night shift rate (which is also added to the day shift rate but is higher than the evening shift differential).

Jason! How many interviews did you get before you get the job at kaiser? They just scheduled me a video interview and i'm kinda nervous and don't know what to expect 🤣

I just got one interview and was offered the position the same day. Every interviewer is going to be vastly different from the next. So, I can't really tell you what to expect during your interview. Just be yourself, but also try to answer the questions in a way that they would want to hear you answer the question. Always bring your answer back to make it company-mission and patient focused. And if you don't know the answer to something, be honest, and tell them you would look it up in the policy and ask for help.

@@NursesToRiches Thanks jason! This info really helps a lot. I mean it. I'll keep you posted if i get the job 😁

You’re welcome! Congrats, on getting an interview. I await your follow up letting me know you’ve received an offer.