# Registered Nurses career and wage research

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## The work

Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required.

- Occupation code: 29-1141.00
- Career family: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical
- Career data version: 31.0

## Occupation wages

- Location: United States
- Measurement period: May 2025
- Published wage group: Registered Nurses
- Currency: USD

This wage group may include several occupations or specializations. These survey wages can include commissions, tips and production incentives; they are neither employer base salary nor total compensation. Annual and hourly figures are native source measurements. Employment and sample counts are not supplied in these exports.

| Disclosed percentile | Annual wages | Hourly wages |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 10th | $68,940 | $33.14 |
| 25th | $80,330 | $38.62 |
| Median (50th) | $97,550 | $46.90 |
| 75th | $112,350 | $54.02 |
| 90th | $137,470 | $66.09 |

Missing values remain unpublished. Bounds are not exact values. We do not convert an unavailable annual figure from an hourly wage.

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- Certified Operating Room Nurse (CNOR)
- Charge Nurse
- Circulating Nurse
- Community Health Nurse
- Consultant Nurse
- Consulting Nurse
- Coronary Care Unit Nurse (CCU Nurse)
- County Nurse
- Delivery Nurse
- Dialysis Nurse
- Dialysis Registered Nurse (Dialysis RN)
- Discharge Planner
- Emergency Department RN (Emergency Department Registered Nurse)
- Emergency Room Nurse (ER Nurse)
- Emergency Room Registered Nurse (ER RN)
- Endoscopy Registered Nurse (Endoscopy RN)
- Field Nurse
- Flight Nurse
- Forensic Nurse
- General Duty Nurse
- Genetics Nurse
- Geriatric Nurse
- Home Health RN (Home Health Registered Nurse)
- Hospice Registered Nurse (Hospice RN)
- Industrial Nurse
- Industrial RN (Industrial Registered Nurse)
- Industrial Staff Nurse

## Selected responsibilities

- Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
- Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
- Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.
- Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
- Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.
- Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
- Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.
- Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
- Conduct specified laboratory tests.
- Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure proper nursing care.
- Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.
- Work with individuals, groups, or families to plan or implement programs designed to improve the overall health of communities.
- Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.
- Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
- Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices, or other forms of treatment, such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic procedures.
- Direct or coordinate infection control programs, advising or consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.
- Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.

## Skills in the occupation reference

- **Social Perceptiveness**: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- **Active Listening**: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- **Coordination**: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- **Critical Thinking**: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- **Service Orientation**: Actively looking for ways to help people.
- **Speaking**: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- **Judgment and Decision Making**: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- **Reading Comprehension**: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- **Monitoring**: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- **Writing**: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- **Active Learning**: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- **Complex Problem Solving**: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- **Instructing**: Teaching others how to do something.
- **Learning Strategies**: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- **Time Management**: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- **Operations Monitoring**: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- **Systems Analysis**: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- **Systems Evaluation**: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- **Mathematics**: Using mathematics to solve problems.
- **Persuasion**: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.

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## Data acknowledgement

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