It is very frustrating and makes myself and other dedicated staff feel betrayed and taken advantage of to find out the starting rate of pay for new grad nurses. I understand we need staff and appreciate Tanner for providing us with new staff; however, more should be spent on the devoted employees. What I do not understand is how new grad nurses, with no experience, should get more pay than the devoted employees who have more experience and are training these new grads. On top of taking abuse from some of our patients, we now feel used by our employer. We are stretched so thin as it is and we are constantly expected to take on more and more responsibilities, which is tiring, stressful, and burns us out. We aren’t getting the respect that dedicated employees should. Every year we get a raise, yet every year the cost of our insurance increases. Actually, everything seems to increase. With the cost of living having increased so much and continuing to increase, for my mortgage payment has increased by $200 per month this year, I agree that the new hires should get good pay; however, the dedicated employees who train new grads and keep Tanner going should be caught up and be the highest paid. Our pay has not kept up with the rate of inflation. Our rate of pay is unfair compared to new grad nurse pay and taking inflation into consideration, for it took us years to make the rate of pay the new nurses are being started out at. We deserve more pay.