Dienstag, 14. Januar 2014

Registered Nurses Salaries

Becoming an RN or Registered Nurse means belonging to the largest health care group there is. They have in hand the rewarding job of assisting those in need of medical care. Today's society demands a lot nurse services and the search for registered nurses has been increasing lately. However, to become one there are several steps that must be taken.



Aside from this high registered nurse salary, these two types of nurses also scored well in such categories as personal satisfaction, job security, future growth, and benefit to society. The only drawback is the high level of stress for both jobs.



This is understandably so, as all nursing jobs, like most other healthcare occupations, carry this heavy burden of making sure you perform all of your duties well, because as a nurse, you're taking care of people's health. But on the other hand, these responsibilities are what make nursing jobs score particularly well in terms of personal satisfaction and benefit to society. You and the other healthcare professionals are in charge of someone else's wellness and whenever you see someone get well and recovered from whatever illness or injury he suffered from, the personal satisfaction and benefit to society kicks in. And just like almost all healthcare jobs out there, the job prospects for these two types of nursing practice and for the whole nursing career in general



are excellent as employment for registered nurses will continue to grow much faster than the average for all other occupations.



A career as a registered nurse also belongs to some of the top paying healthcare jobs in the United States. Along with physician assistants who earn $81,600 a year and physical therapists that earn $74,410 yearly, a registered nurse gets paid, on average, $66,530 a year. Registered nurses can specialize in many areas including critical care, trauma, transport, home health care, hospice, and radiology. This means they have many options for career diversification and growth, and the chance to earn an even better nursing salary. In terms of job security, from 2008 to 2018, there are going to be an additional 581,500 new registered nurse jobs that will be created and these need to be filled up. There are even areas in the United States now where the demand for nurses exceeds the number of applicants for the positions. This is another reason why different States can have significantly different registered nurse salary levels.



The current staffing trends are expected to continue throughout the healthcare system; specifically with registered nursing staff. The employment rate for RNs is expected to grow by over 22% within the next five years. In response to this employment rate many students have made this their study of choice. Those employing registered nurses prefer their nurses to hold, at least, an associate degree; however, they are even more likely to hire a registered nurse holding a bachelor's degree. On average 36% of registered nurses hold an associate's degree, 39% hold a bachelor's degree, 11% hold a master's degree, and 0.6% of RNs hold a doctoral degree. On the lower end of the spectrum for registered nurse's salary is approximately $44,000 which is earned by approximately 10% of all RNs. On the higher end of the spectrum are those RNs earning approximately $94,000, representing about 10% of RNs also. The remaining 80% vary between the two figures.


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