I’m a registered nurse. I’ve got some really great marketable skills that could put me into any ICU and I’ll hit the ground running. Iykyk. I turned down an ecmo specialist job and a level one trauma ICU, that base pay started at 40 and 38.75$, not to include shift differentials, specially pay etc.. for a clinic job that pays 32.75$/hr. I chose my sanity, I chose freedom, I chose me. Hospitals have lost sight of just how valuable nurses are. 90% of nurses are predicted to be out of the workforce within the year.. I’m one of those statistics.