My wife's about as senior a nurse as you can get
Paul said this, which would mean Chief Nurse or Director of Nursing or therabouts. So easily an 8D or a 9. Up to £110,000
Unlikely. @PaulB said she works as a Nurse not that she is Chief Executive or Clinical Director.
You are still a nurse if you are a Director/Chief/Head of.
yup, average salary of a senior nurse is 40k
Ok, right. Just for clarity, how would you define a 'senior nurse'?
I know you all enjoy having a pop at me, but to be clear, I think nurses striking is wrong. We get paid adequately for our roles (feel free to point out I would say that, I am a very senior nurse now). We have fallen behind a bit, but we chose the NHS as our employer, there are lots of higher paid nursing jobs out there.
If we were truly going to be paid for what we produce our pay would be a lot less as we produce nothing, everything we do costs lots of money and generates £0. However if you paid us for what we bring to you when you need us (I saved a mans life about 4 weeks ago who had suffered a heart attack 2 weeks before his daughters wedding) then you would pay us £000,000s, just an unlimited pot of cash.
The RCN is leading nurses into a lions den with a loin cloth for protection. We will demand something daft, the RCN will not have the stomach for the proper miners style fight, other unions will be more or less militant which will cause friction, individual nurses will buckle when they see their patients and colleagues come to harm and the public will not thank us for using the good will we have built up as a bargaining tool for more cash.
The reality is that most nurses won't strike in any way that is meaningful. We have lost before we even started
