Fanamarinana
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.
Ny vidiny hahazoana azy — ny antsasaky ny salan'isa.
Volana maro ny fiofanana, fotoana feno. Ny fotoana ampahany dia maharitra kokoa.
Volana maro ny karama voalohany ilaina mba hamenoana izany fandaniana izany. Tsy volana maro raha vao mialoha ny rehetra ianao — ny fotoana fanazarantena eo ambony no voalohany.
Loharano: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · seho
Inona no sandan'io vola io, ary inona no tsy sandan'io vola io
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.
Ohatrinona ny olona manana izany, ary ohatrinona ny olona miasa ao amin'ny sehatry ny asa
Firy ny mahazo izany isan-taona
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Tsy manova izany ho isanjato izahay. Ity dia fikorianan'ny isan-taona — ireo olona nahazo ny fankatoavana tao anatin'ny taona iray. Ny tarehimarika momba ny asa dia tahiry mitoetra, ny tsirairay miasa amin'ny asa amin'ny fotoana iray. Ny fizarana ny fikorianan'ny asa ho tahiry dia miteraka isa izay toy ny tahan'ny fivarotana asa fa tsy iray. Raha manana lisitry ny mpitondra fankatoavana isika dia mamoaka ny isan'ny mpiasa; eto tsy manana iray izahay, ka mamoaka ny fikorianan'ny asa ary miato.
Inona no tafiditra ao anatin'io fanisana io: 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) · seho
Inona no nitranga tamin'ireo olona izay nahavita ny fiofanana
Efatra taona taorian'ny nahavitana, avy amin'ny tahirin-kevitra federaly
Na 177,214 olona izay nahavita Registered nursing, bachelor's degree ary tsy mbola mianatra intsony efatra taona taty aoriana, 4,421 tsy manana fidiram-bola voarakitra mihitsy — 2.5%. Ireo izay miasa dia mahazo ny salan'isa amin'ny $88,910, amin'ny antsasaky ny afovoany eo anelanelan'ny $67,853 ary $114,470.
Tsy hoe "tsy an'asa" ny "tsy manana vola miditra". Ny fepetra dia ny tsy fisian'ny tahirin-kevitra momba ny karama sy ny fidiram-bola avy amin'ny asa tena nandritra ny taona manontolo. Tsy nisy olona nanontany raha te-hiasa izy ireo, noho izany ny fanisana dia mirakitra ireo olona izay namela ny asa noho ny safidiny — mikarakara zaza, mikarakara, mandeha, miaina amin'ny fidiram-bolan'ny hafa, mifindra any ivelany — miaraka amin'ireo rehetra izay te-hanana asa nefa tsy na izany. Tsy misy olona mamoaka ny fizarazarana ary tsy ho fantatsika izany. Ny zavatra lazainy dia ny hoe firy ny olona nahavita ity fiofanana ity ary tsy nahazo na inona na inona tamin'izany na tamin'ny zavatra hafa nandritra ny efatra taona, izay tena tsy azo lazaina amin'ny tarehimarika ambony momba ny karama.
Ny fehezan-dalànan'ilay rindran'asa: 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.
Iza no ao anatin'ny vondrona: Tsy ao anatin'ny faribolana roa ireo olona niditra tao amin'ny fianarana ambony. Manafoana ireo sekoly manana mpianatra kely loatra tsy azo avoaka ny Departemanta ary mampiditra ny feo ara-statistika amin'ny sisa, ka ity no isa amin'ireo sekoly lehibe ampy ho an'ny tatitra: 825 ny sasany amin'izy ireo, miverina amin'ny laoniny 97.1% amin'ny isan'ny firenena lazain'ny Departemanta ho an'ity fandaharanasa ity. Ny fanafoanana ireo fandaharan'asa fanaovan-gazety kely indrindra dia mampiakatra ny tahan'ny 0.0 isan-jato.
Loharano: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · seho · ny isa mitovy ho an'ny fandaharana rehetra azonay avoaka
Ny zavatra ahafahanao manao
Ny karama dia an'ny asa, fa tsy ny mari-pahaizana.Ireo asa ireo no ahafahan'ny mari-pahaizana mametraka anao ho afaka amin'izany.
| Asa | Tokony atao ve izany? | Mediana | Mpiasa |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Ny INSEE dia mampiasa ny kaodim-paositra 2B205.
Mividy ny tenany ve izy?
Ny asa izay avoakany dia manome karama eo amin'ny 1000 $97,550. Ny salan'isa amin'ny asa rehetra navoakanay dia $50,020, ka ny vola azo amin'ny fikarakarana izany dia eo amin'ny $47,530 taona mialoha ny hetra.
Vakio ho toy ny fampitahana amin'ny asa mahazatra izany, fa tsy amin'ny asao. Inona no fototra, ary inona no tsy ahitana
Ary mihevitra izy fa hahazo ny asa ianao. Ny isan'ny vola azo amin'ny alalan'ny tranonkala rehetra dia miankina amin'ny hoe apetraka amin'ny asa ny olona tsirairay. izany no heverina fa misy ny isan'ny mpitondra ny taratasy fanamarinana eo ambony mba hanandramana, ary izany no heverina fa ny tranonkala rehetra mitady vola dia manao izany am-pilaminana.
Ny zavatra ilainao alohan'ny hanombohanao
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
Aza atao io raha
- 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
Ireo famantarana rehetra, araka ny vanim-potoanan'ny fandoavam-bola · Ahoana no fomba fandalinana izany · Mitady zavatra hafa