You are right! The most undervalued profession in the medical field along with paramedics.

Maine just needs to pay their nurses. I make $20/hr more in Texas as a staff nurse than Maine nurses with the same experience.

I finished a travel contract at Maine Med, $5k week. Maine pays nurses like crap. At least 75% of the hospital was travel nurses. Maines nurses travel between Portland and New Hampshire because the pay is 10 yrs behind other states.