Kredibbiltà
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.
Dak li jiswa biex tikseb — in-nofs tan-nofs tal-firxa.
Xhur ta' taħriġ, full time. part time jieħu aktar żmien.
Xhur tal-primjum tal-paga meħtieġa biex ikopru dak l-ispiża. Mhux xhur sakemm inti huma quddiem globalment - il-ħin tat-taħriġ hawn fuq jiġi l-ewwel.
Sors: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · Ħarsa ġenerali
X’inhi dik il-figura tal-ispiża, u x’mhux
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.
Kemm-il persuna għandhom dan, u kemm huma jaħdmu fil-qasam
Kemm jaqilgħu dan kull sena
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
M’aħniex qed inbiddlu dan f’perċentwal. Dan huwa fluss annwali — il-persuni li kisbu l-kredenzjali f’sena waħda. Figuri impjiegi huma stokk permanenti, kulħadd jaħdem fl-okkupazzjoni f’ħin wieħed. Dividing fluss fi stokk jipproduċi numru li jaqra bħal rata kiri u mhuwiex wieħed. Fejn aħna żżomm għadd permanenti ta detenturi kredenzjali aħna jippubblikaw l-ishma impjegati; hawnhekk aħna ma għandniex wieħed, hekk aħna jippubblikaw il-fluss u tieqaf.
X’jinkludi dak il-kont: 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) · Ħarsa ġenerali
X’ġara lill-persuni li spiċċaw it-taħriġ
Erba' snin wara li tlestiet, minn rekords federali
Ta’ 177,214 nies li temmew Registered nursing, bachelor's degree u ma baqgħux jistudjaw erba' snin wara, 4,421 ma kellu l-ebda qligħ fuq rekord fil-livelli kollha — 2.5%. Dawk li kienu qed jaħdmu akkwistaw medjan ta’ $88,910, bin-nofs tan-nofs bejn $67,853 u $114,470.
“L-ebda qligħ irreġistrat” mhuwiex “min ma għandux impjieg”. Il-kejl huwa n-nuqqas ta’ kwalunkwe rekord ta’ paga u kwalunkwe dħul pożittiv minn impjieg indipendenti għas-sena kollha. Ħadd ma kien mistoqsi jekk riedx jaħdem, għalhekk il-kalkolu jżomm persuni li telqu mill-forza tax-xogħol b’għażla tagħhom — biex irabbu t-tfal, jieħdu ħsieb, jivvjaġġaw, jgħixu fuq id-dħul ta’ xi ħadd ieħor, imorru barra minn pajjiżhom — flimkien ma’ dawk kollha li riedu xogħol u ma kellhom ebda wieħed. Ħadd ma jippubblika l-qsim u aħna ma nistgħux naħsbu. Dak li jistabbilixxi huwa kemm-il persuna temmew dan it-taħriġ u ma kienu qed jaqilgħu xejn minnu jew minn xi ħaġa oħra erba’ snin wara, li huwa eżattament dak li ċ-ċifra tal-paga ta’ hawn fuq ma tistax tgħidlek.
X’jikkopri dak il-kodiċi tal-programm: 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.
Min hu fil-kohort: Il-popolazzjoni ta’ persuni li temmew l-istudji tagħhom u li rċevew għajnuna federali għall-istudenti — madwar nofs l-istudenti tal-ewwel sena fl-Istati Uniti, u n-nofs l-ieħor mhumiex imkejla hawnhekk. Nies li marru għal aktar studju mhumiex fl-ebda kolonna. Id-Dipartiment tneħħi istituzzjonijiet b’kohorti żgħar wisq biex tippubblika u żżid ħoss statistika għall-bqija, għalhekk dan huwa somma fuq l-istituzzjonijiet kbar biżżejjed biex tirrapporta: 825 ta’ dawn, irkupraw 97.1% tal-għadd nazzjonali tad-Dipartiment stess għal dan il-programm. Tneħħija tal-programmi rappurtar iżgħar timxi r-rata minn 0.0 punti perċentwali.
Sors: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Ħarsa ġenerali · l-istess figura għal kull programm nistgħu tippubblika
X'jħallik tagħmel
Il-paga tappartjeni għax-xogħol, mhux għall-kredenzjali, u dawn huma l-professjonijiet li tikkwalifika għalihom.
| Xogħol | Huwa meħtieġ? | Medjan | Impjegati |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Paga medjana u impjieg: BLS Statistika dwar l-Impjiegi u l-Paga Okkupazzjonali, Mejju 2025.
Tħallas għaliha nnifisha?
L-impjieg dan unlocks tħallas medjan ta $97,550. Il-medjan ponderat tal-impjiegi f’kull okkupazzjoni li nippubblikaw huwa $50,020, hekk il-primjum għall-pussess dan huwa dwar $47,530 sena qabel it-taxxa.
Aqra dan bħala tqabbil ma’ impjieg medju, mhux mal-impjieg tiegħek. X’inhi dik il-linja bażi, u x’tħalli barra
U dan jassumi inti tikseb l-impjieg. Kull figura payback fuq dan is-sit hija kondizzjonali fuq li jiġu mikrija fix-xogħol.Din hija l-preżunzjoni l-kredenzjali-detentur għadd hawn fuq teżisti biex jittestjaw, u huwa l-preżunzjoni kull sit ħlas ieħor jagħmel silenzjuż.
X’għandek bżonn qabel ma tibda
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
M’għandekx tagħmel dan jekk
- 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
Il-kredenzjali kollha, skont il-perjodu ta’ ħlas lura · Kif jiġi kkalkulat dan · Fittex xi ħaġa oħra