I think the ONA pay scale is very fair
i like our union and i agree. it's just existing in toronto is suffering and the cost of living isn't easy north of toronto [past newmarket, prior to september] and past oshawa / by oshawa currently. i'm going to be in peterborough in 2022 and the cost of living isn't exactly cheap there either- quite the opposite according to everyone i know there.
I think that if that is a need for you as a nurse you will burn out fast
most of my friends are poc, queer [trans,] with disability / mentally illness, sex workers, or some combo of that and i often see a majority of them not getting what they require either from nurses or doctors- healthcare filters out to a very specific kind of individual, unfortunately.
there's outliers, ofc- when i got fully vaccinated a while ago, the nurse in question administering the dose put herself through school in her 40s as a single mother and consolidated [coincidentally] in peterborough and we had a chat about this exact thing- her son is also a trans man in healthcare and was at the clinic in question administering doses.
i personally haven't had good experiences with healthcare myself as a patient and the instances i did involved my doctor at my universities clinic, who was there for most of my program. he has now moved his practice to peterborough.
I don’t think that will be any different as an NP (though if you’re interested in NP obviously go for it) Nursing is super versatile, try to find an area of nursing you enjoy more?
i've taken in inspiration about setting up my own clinic due to the clinic i am a patient of currently being NP led- but that obviously has constraints w/ capital and i have no clue how it would work. it would be nice to provide healthcare for the above mentioned vulnerable groups.
and yeah, my cousin and her sister are both RNs at ontario shores [which, i have also been a patient of] and work in the geriatric unit. i could easily specialize into something with computers [which, is something i am very proficient with] but i think actually being able to infer diagnoses on own opinion, refer, prescribe medications, etc.
in example, what took my boyfriends [he is a trans man] doctors roughly ~6-7 months to figure out, i inferred in about 15 seconds by seeing his prolactin levels + TSH levels on his blood work. this was a prolactinoma [which, obviously isn't cancerous but can still cause issues] and it's just very astounding to me / seems very useless that they didn't notice this immediately. i have similar stories with other friends, but yeha.