What type of nurses are highly paid?
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Advanced Practice Nurses.. Reaad on, i have a lot of info :)\n\nLicensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) are also known as Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVNs) in California and Texas. These individuals usually have eighteen months to two years of training in anatomy and physiology, medications, and practical patient care. They must pass state or national boards and renew their license periodically.\n\nLPNs can perform simple as well as complex medical procedures but must operate under the supervision of either a Registered Nurse or a physician. They can administer most medications (usually with the exception of IV push medications), perform measurements (blood pressure, temperature, etc.), keep records, perform CPR, maintain sterile and isolation conditions, and administer basic care.\n\nLPNs are often found working under the supervision of physicians in clinics. In long term care facilities, they sometimes supervise nursing assistants and orderlies.\n\nThe Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were about 700,000(1) persons employed as Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses in the U.S. in 2004.\n\nRegistered Nurses (RNs) are professional nurses who often supervise the tasks performed by LPNs, orderlies and nursing assistants. They provide direct care and make decisions regarding plans of care for individuals and groups of healthy, ill and injured people. They have a Diploma, Associate Degree, or Bachelors Degree in Nursing at entry level, and after passing state board examininations are granted the title Registered Nurse. Regardless of degree, RNs have many hours of clinical experience before they are graduated.\n\nRNs are the largest group of healthcare workers in the U.S. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were about 2.3 million (1) persons employed as Registered Nurses in the U.S. in 2004.\n\nResearch has shown that RNs are the first-line defense of hospitalized patients against disability or death from infection, cardiopulmonary arrest, and other serious complications. Higher ratios of registered nurses to patients have been shown to decrease certain complications of illness and mortality rates. Registered Nurses are educators, managers, executives, therapists, intensive care experts, symptom managers, professional mentors, researchers and community members. In hospitals, registered nurses perform diverse roles such as writing policies, responding to emergencies, managing professional, technical and ancillary staff, determining budgets, performing strategic planning, and supervising construction projects.\n\nAdvanced practice nurses (APNs) are Registered Nurses with advanced education, knowledge, skills, and scope of practice. APNs possess a master's or doctoral degree in nursing and may also sit for additional certification examinations. APNs may function as a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), nurse practitioner (NP), clinical nurse specialist (CNS) or Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). They perform primary health care, provide mental health services, diagnose and prescribe, carry out research, and educate the public and other professionals. Some APNs diagnose illness and prescribe medication.\n\nAll advanced practice credentials have requirements such as continuing education and periodic re-examination to maintain the credential.\n\nAdvanced Practice Nurses can expect to earn above-average salaries, especially as the population of ages and the demand for highly-skilled healthcare workers grows proportionally.\n\nGood Luck! :)
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It depends on where you live.  An RN can make anywhere from $30 to $50 per hour.  Not to include overtime.  Plus you can work for other companies part time and increase your pay two-fold.  Normally 40 hrs per week with a bonus upon signing up every year...\nCalifornia rates would be higher than say Texas or New Mexico.  The cost of living is figured into pay if you didn't know...\nWhat is a WOCN RN btw?
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Check out\nhttp://www.bls.gov\n\nClick on the Occupational Outlook Handbook link.  It's in the left-hand column towards the middle.  From there you can find info on salary- national and state statistics.\n\nRegistered nursing would most likely make you the most money.  You can get your ADN in about 2 years, after your prerequisites, of course.  Every shcool is different.  Thay make around $18 - $25 per hour, depending on experience and whether you work in a hospital, doctor's office, etc.
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Charge nurse's oversee  the duties of other nurses.
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depends what kind of nurse butt,,any where between $17/ 50.00 hr
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The U.S. Department of Labor has published the median income for RNs as $48,090 in 2002. The range was $33,970 to $69,670 based on geographic location and work experience. Nurse managers made the most money, while care facility nurses made the least on average at $43,850.
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My friend is an RN and the salary is very good.  She just started as an RN and the starting pay is great!  Also, there is a lot of need for RN's right now so she pretty much has her pick of any job.  Most hospitals will offer some incentives, like a sign on bonus or even pay off some of your student loans.  I definately suggest going for an RN degree.
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I would say nursing. You can do the lpn program or the rn.  The pay is good and there seems to be a big demand for nurses all the time.\n\nI should have went that route--dumb me--I became a teacher.  Cripes--talk about low pay.  I finally gave up teaching and now just do telemarketing (with a Master's Degree lol). I now make $10,000 more a year than I did teaching.  Sad, isn't it?\n\nBe a nurse.
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doctors taking a pay-cut as nurses start to do their jobs.
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A "sugary" nurse? Sounds like a "sweet" job
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Nurses that I have talked to here in USA find it the most wanted job skill at the present time, and well paid.  They are all suggesting that if they had to do it over they would specialize...radiology,  trauma, office management, etc. as dealing with a bunch of females, and a few men, all day, who argue over time off and holidays, is a pain. Pain management is another good field! good luck.
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Helpful Tips on Starting a Nursing Career\n\nGraduates completing their nursing program can look forward to entering a profession that is in great demand.  Across the country, there are over 20,000 openings for staff nurses to work in hospitals, clinics, home care, private practice, schools, military service, occupational settings, and health and wellness centers.\n\nEntry-level nursing positions start in the range of $35,000 to $50,000 with additional compensation for overtime, night and weekend work.  Given the nationwide nursing shortage, employers often “sweeten the pie” by providing sign-on bonuses of $3,000 to $6,000 along with up to $5,000 in reimbursed relocation expenses. In addition to competitive salaries, employers typically offer benefits packages that include health insurance, vacation and holiday pay, college tuition reimbursement, childcare allowance, flexible scheduling, and pension plans.\n\nThe nursing profession offers many challenges and significant rewards to those who enter the field devoted to the calling of relieving human suffering and dedicated to advancing their career.  Although it is not difficult finding a job as a new graduate, it does take careful planning to carve out a career as a distinguished Registered Nurse.  Here are some practical pointers to accomplish that goal:\n\nProvide quality patient care.  This is what your training has prepared you for as a personal caregiver and valuable member of a medical team.  Be diligent in establishing a reputation for providing quality patient care and supporting your health organization’s mission.  Along with demonstrating core competencies, develop the “people skills” required for you to work comfortably with all types of patients, physicians and other medical staff. \nStay on the cutting edge of medical knowledge.  To maintain state licensure and remain in good standing with your employer, you will need to accumulate a number of Continuing Nurse Education credits (CNE’s) each year.  In addition to acquiring CNE’s through formal classroom instruction, why not take advantage of the numerous online opportunities for CNE training?  (As one example, check out what’s offered on Nursingcenter.com:  www.nursingcenter.com/ce/index.cfm). \n\nTo stay abreast of medical advancements, trends and social issues that impact the nursing field, take time to regularly read professional publications like Nursing 2001, RN Journal, NurseWeek, RN Magazine, and Journal of the National Black Nurses Association.  Some have online versions that you can easily access at your leisure and convenience.\n\nBecome more “culturally competent.”  Nurses, like physicians and other health practitioners, are challenged to provide care to patient populations that are becoming increasingly culturally diverse.  One way to achieve this goal is to take advantage of any in-service training related to heightening cultural sensitivity, working with language translators, and so on.  More ambitious RN’s might also consider learning “medical Spanish” in order to better relate to the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States—persons of Hispanic/Latino background.  (One example of a medical Spanish program is found at www.idrama.com/MedSpan.htm). \n\nNetwork with other medical professionals. Topping the list would be other RN’s who have distinguished themselves in their field.  Networking contacts can also include nurse educators, career strategists, and nurse entrepreneurs (such as Nurse Legal Consultants), who can all provide valuable perspectives on career advancement issues.  Another important avenue for networking is to become involved in one or more professional associations, such as the American Nurses Association and the National Black Nurses Association.  The contacts, information sharing, and career resources these associations offer are invaluable for RN’s who are serious about career advancement. \nMake yourself more marketable.  Like other professi
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Nurses do not stay in one job, they move. If the pay or benefits are better elsewhere, they will leave, and go there. \nConsider that hospitals in the past were happy to have the experienced, older nurse on staff, and retained their staff until retirement. One reason was cost. A new nurse, just out of school, takes about four years to learn the profession, and her job, and become skilled at it. The money to train a new nurse was well spent, since she would stay until she retired. Now, hospitals look at the bottom line, how much the salary and benefits are costing.  They want cost effectiveness at the basic salary and benefit level. \nThey dump anyone over a certain age, they do not want to pay retirement benefits, and they do not care if the older nurse is there to run the division, and train newer staff.  \nIt has changed the nurse's psychology. They used to dedicate themselves to the hospital, become one with it. Now a job is looked upon as just a stop-gap until the good job comes along.\nThere is a nursing shortage, and it will get worse. No one wants to enter the profession, it costs a lot in time and money to enter it, a lot to practice in it, and the pay, while a little better  than it used to be, is not great. I started as an LPN in 1976. I made $3.62 an hour, with benefits. My cousin took a job as a check-out grocery clerk, the scanner check-out machines were brand new then . She started out at over $7 an hour, with benefits. She had a bachelor's degree, but not in business. She is now a manager for a grocery store, and will be retiring next year, about ten years before she turns 65. She has had no further formal education. I went back to school, got an RN, and I am still a staff nurse, on the division. I do not know what she makes, but considering her lifestyle, a lot more than I do.\nAnother sign of the times is benefits. Used to be, everyone got the same, part time or full time. Now, part timers get less, and hospitals are  less likely to hire full time employees. I wanted full time, can't get it. Now the hospitals offer money for nurses and other jobs to go back to school. Why? It's a benefit, it looks good in the employment brochure, and it is a lot cheaper than paying health care benefits. And it is usually given in exchange for a commitment to work for X many years at that hospital. During that time, the hospital has the nurse at their mercy. If she quits, she has to pay back the money.\nHas this changed the quality of care given by the nurses? No, nurses are still dedicated to the profession, I do not see any more, or any less goof-offs. \nDid it change the quality of care the patient recieves? Yes. In those corporations who dump the older, experienced nurses, and hire younger, less experienced nurses, there is no one to teach the less experienced, no role models, no been there, done that person  to call and ask what is wrong with the patient.\nProbably the biggest problem to patient care is that bottom line. Health care costs are high, the patient does not go to the hospital until they are dying. There is a nursing shortage, and staffing nurse to patient ratios are high because of the shortage, and because of the hospital budget. . There is likely a less experienced nurse there. Patient costs can sky rocket, when that nurse does not know what supplies the patient will need, and brings the wrong things to the bedside. The patient pays for the wrong items as well as the right ones. \nOne new trend. Owning, maintaining, and buying gas for an automobile costs have also sky rocketing. Many nurses are choosing jobs closer to home, taking a cut in salary, knowing it will be at least partially made up in less gas purchases, and less wear and tear on the car. My friend just took a $10 cut in pay to work close to home, for her family's benefit as well as  to cut her driving costs. I chose to look for employment  closer to home, a less than 20 minute drive, as opposed to a 50+ minute drive. I took a $
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there is quite a bit of paper work in nursing....percedures depend of what type of nurse you are... Example...nursing home vs ER
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No.  sorry.  I go to school with people studying to be nurses and they all have to pay.
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I left nursing a few years ago and I write now. But, your math and science and degree can be used to teach.  Pay isn't as good, though. If you are single, investigate how much you can make as a nurse in Saudi Arabia. Just for the adventure of it. Even though legal nursing is a certification/specialty field, attorneys are always looking for RN's.  And, they pay better than hospitals. Good luck.
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Very good money.  My sister-in-law has been doing it for several years and enjoys it very much.  She has worked her way up to head of the department at a big hospital.