Kredencijalno
Registered nurse licence (RN)
The licence you cannot work as a registered nurse without. Two routes lead to the same exam and the same licence — a two-year associate degree or a four-year bachelor's — and they cost very different amounts.
Koliko košta dobiti – srednja polovica opsega.
Mjeseci treninga, puno radno vrijeme, povremeno traje duže.
Mjeseci premije za plaćanje potrebno pokriti taj trošak. Ne mjesecima dok ste ukupno naprijed – vrijeme treninga dolazi prvo.
Izvor: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · Pregled
Što je ta cijena, a što nije
The low end is the 25th percentile across institutions offering the two-year associate route; the high end is the 75th percentile across institutions offering the four-year bachelor's. That range is median cumulative FEDERAL LOAN DEBT at completion, not a tuition sticker price and not total cost. It is what completers actually borrowed, so it excludes grants, savings, family money, employer funding and living costs — which makes it a FLOOR on what the credential costs, never a ceiling. The low and high figures are the 25th and 75th percentiles across the institutions that report a figure for this programme, so a quarter of institutions sit below the low end. College Scorecard pools two award years into each figure; the release used here is dated 10 June 2026.
Two years full time for the associate route, four for the bachelor's. Both end at the same NCLEX-RN exam and the same licence, and employers increasingly prefer the bachelor's — which is the reason the cheaper route is not automatically the better one.
The licence renews every one to three years depending on the state, with continuing-education requirements attached.
Koliko ljudi drži ovo, i koliko radi na terenu
Koliko ih svake godine zaradi
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Ne pretvaramo to u postotak. Ovo je godišnji protok – ljudi koji su zaradili uvjerenje u godinu dana. Brojke za zapošljavanje su stalni dionici, svi koji rade u okupljanju u jednom trenutku. Dijeljenje protoka u dionici proizvodi broj koji čita kao stopa zapošljavanja i nije jedan. Gdje držimo stajajući broj vlasnika udjela objavimo zaposleni; ovdje nemamo jedan, tako da objavimo protok i zaustavimo.
Što to broji uključuje: Everyone who passed the NCLEX-RN for US licensure during 2025 — first-time and repeat, US-educated and internationally educated. 328,443 people sat it and 226,946 passed, a 69.1% pass rate. A candidate can pass only once, so this is close to a count of nurses becoming licensable in that year. It excludes candidates sitting the exam for Canadian registration, whom NCSBN reports separately, and it is not a count of anyone holding a licence today.
NCSBN also publishes a count of active RN LICENCES — 6,062,790 as at 24 July 2026 — and we deliberately do not use it. That is licences, not nurses: a nurse holding single-state licences in four states appears four times, and NCSBN publishes no de-duplicated figure. Dividing employment into it would produce a share of about 56% that understates how many licensed nurses are working, so we publish the exam flow instead and no percentage at all.
NCSBN, 2025 NCLEX Examination Statistics, Research Brief vol. 96 (June 2026), Table 1 (People newly credentialed during one year) · Pregled
Što se dogodilo s ljudima koji su završili trening?
Četiri godine nakon završetka, iz federalnih zapisa
od 177,214 ljudi koji su završili Registered nursing, bachelor's degree i više nisu proučavali četiri godine kasnije, 4,421 nije imao nikakve zarade u zapisniku, uopće, 2.5%. Oni koji su radili zaslužuju medijan $88,910, s sredinom polovice između $67,853 Sluči $114,470.
„Nema zarade u zapisniku“ nije „nezaposlena“. Mjera je odsustvo bilo kakve plaće i pozitivan prihod za samozaposlivanje za cijelu godinu. Nitko nije pitao hoće li raditi, pa grof drži ljude koji su odabrali radnu snagu – odgajanje djece, brigu, putovanje, život na tuđem prihodu, preseljenje – uz sve koji su željeli posao i nisu imali nikakvog. Nitko ne objavljuje podijeljenje i nećemo pogoditi. Ono što utvrđuje je koliko ljudi je završilo ovu obuku i ništa nije zaradilo od toga ili od bilo čega drugog četiri godine dalje, što je točno ono što vam ne može reći brojka plaća.
Što taj programski kod pokriva: CIP 51.38 is registered nursing, together with nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing specialisms. At associate and bachelor's level it is almost entirely pre-licensure programmes leading to the NCLEX-RN, so the figure can fairly be read as being about becoming a registered nurse. At master's level and above it also carries nurse practitioners, nurse anaesthetists, nurse midwives, nurse educators and nursing administrators, which are different jobs with different pay.
This is the four-year bachelor's route. The two-year associate route is a separate federal row and comes out at 3.0% not working, against 2.5% here — the cheaper route does slightly worse on this measure, and both are among the best outcomes published.
Tko je u kohorti: potpuni koji su dobili saveznu studentsku pomoć – otprilike polovina američkih studenta, a druga polovica nisu mjerili ovdje. Ljudi koji su nastavili studiju nisu u niti jednom stupcu. Odjela potisnu institucije s kohortama premalo da bi objavili i dodaje statističku buku na ostatak, tako da je to suma dovoljno velika da bi izvijestili: 825 od njih, oporavlja se 97.1% od vlastitog nacionalnog broja za ovaj program. Ispuštanje najmanjih programa za izvješćivanje pomjera stopu po 0.0 postotni bodovi.
Izvor: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Pregled · isti broj za svaki program koji možemo objaviti
Ono što ti omogućava da radiš
Plaća pripada poslu, a ne vjerodostojnosti, već zanimanja za koje te kvalificira.
| Podrška | Je li to potrebno? | Medijan | Zaposleni |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registered Nurses | Legally required to hold the job | $97,550 | 3,379,720 |
| Nurse Practitioners Requires an active RN licence plus a master's or doctorate. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $132,300 | 323,040 |
| Nurse Anesthetists Requires an active RN licence, critical-care experience and a doctorate. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $236,590 | 51,840 |
| Nurse Midwives Requires an active RN licence plus a graduate midwifery programme. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $134,040 | 7,920 |
Medijan plaće i zapošljavanja: BLS Zaposleni Zaposleni i plaćeni statistika, svibanj 2025.
Plaća li se sama?
Posao kojim se otključava plaća medijan $97,550. Medijan u zaposlenju u kategoriji u svakom poslu koji objavimo je $50,020, Dakle, premija za držanje je o tome $47,530 godinu dana prije poreza.
Pročitajte to kao usporedbu s prosječnim poslom, a ne s vašim poslom. Što je ta osnova, i što ostavlja vani
I pretpostavlja da ćeš dobiti posao. Svaka osveta na ovom mjestu je uvjetovana da bude angažirana u posao. To je pretpostavka da broj vlasnika kredencijalnosti iznad postoji za testiranje, i to je pretpostavka svaki drugi mjesto plaća tiho čini.
Što trebate prije nego počnete
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
Ne čini to ako
- you cannot pass a criminal background check, which every board requires
- you are not prepared to work nights, weekends and holidays for years
- you cannot physically lift, turn and move adult patients
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