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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.
Yini izindleko ukuthola — ingxenye ephakathi kwesigaba.
Inyanga yoqeqesho, isikhathi esigcwele. Isikhathi esincane sithatha isikhathi eside.
Amasonto emali edingekayo ukukhokhela le zindleko. Akufanele kube amasonto kuze kube udlule phambili ngazo zonke — isikhathi soqeqesho esiphezulu siqala kuqala.
Umsuka: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · isithombe
Yini lenani lemali, nokuthi yini engasekho
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.
Ingabe abantu abaningi bagcina lokhu, futhi bangaki abasebenza kule ndawo
Ngabe kukhona abathola lokhu ngonyaka ngamunye
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Sizoqhubeka nokwenza lokhu. Le yi-flow yeminyaka - abantu abathola igunya ngonyaka owodwa. Izithombe zokuqashwa ziyi-stock ehlala, wonke umuntu esebenza emisebenzini ngesikhathi esisodwa. Ukuhlukanisa i-flow ibe yi-stock ikhiqiza inani elifundeka njenge-rate yokuqasha futhi aliyona elinye. lapho sigcina khona ukubala okuhlala kwe-credit holders sishicilela i-share esebenza; lapha asinayo enye, ngakho sishicilela i-flow futhi si stop.
Igama le-akhawunti: 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) · isithombe
Yini ekwenzeke kubantu abaqedile ukuqeqeshwa
Iminyaka emihlanu ngemuva kokuqedwa, kusuka ku-
noma 177,214 abantu abaqedile Registered nursing, bachelor's degree futhi bebengafundanga iminyaka emine ngemuva kwalokho, 4,421 ayikho imali engenayo ebhalwe phansi — 2.5%. Abasebenza bathola umphakathi we-R1 100 000 $88,910, ngengxenye ephakathi phakathi $67,853 futhi $114,470.
“Akukho inzuzo ebhalwe phansi” akuyona “imisebenzi engasebenzi”. Umbiko we-2015 we-National Statistics Office (NSO) ukhombisa ukuthi i-10% yabasebenzi base-Afrika abasebenza ezweni lonke basebenza ngaphansi kwe-10% yemali ekhokhwa yi-NHS. Umbiko ubonisa ukuthi i-NHS ikhokhela i-10% yabasebenzi base-Afrika abasebenza ngaphansi kwe-10% yemali ekhokhwa yi-NHS. Umbiko ukhombisa ukuthi i-NHS ikhokhela i-10% yabasebenzi base-Afrika abasebenza ngaphansi kwe-10% yemali ekhokhwa yi-NHS. Umbiko ubonisa ukuthi i-NHS ikhokhela i-10% yabasebenzi base-Afrika abasebenza ngaphansi kwe-10% yemali ekhokhwa yi-NHS.
Igama lephrojekthi: 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.
Obani abakhona: completers abatholayo usizo lokufunda i-federal - cishe ingxenye yabafundi base-US, futhi enye ingxenye ayilinganisiwe lapha. Abantu abaye bafunda kabanzi bakhona emkhakheni othile. I-Isikhungo sicindezela izinhlangano ezinezinhlaka ezincane kakhulu zokushicilela futhi singeza umsindo we-statistics eqenjini, ngakho lokhu kuyinani elingaphezulu kwezinhlangano ezikhulu ngokwanele ukukhombisa: 825 100% 97.1% i-10% yemali ekhokhwa yi-IFP ezweni lonke Ukususa ama-program ancane kakhulu olwazisa ahamba nezinga 0.0 amaphuzu
Umsuka: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · isithombe · isithombe esifanayo sohlelo ngalunye esikwazi ukushicilela
Izinto ezikuvumela ukuthi ukwenze
Imali ihlobene nemisebenzi, hhayi negunya. Lawa msebenzi akusho ukuthi ufanele usebenze.
| Imisebenzi | Ingabe kudingeka? | I-median | Abasebenza |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Imali ephakathi nemisebenzi: I-BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
Ingabe ikhokhela ngokwayo?
Umsebenzi ovula lokhu ukhokha umphakathi we $97,550. I-median elinganiselwe ngomsebenzi esuka kuwo wonke umsebenzi esiwushicilelayo $50,020, ngakho ipremiyamu yokuphatha lokhu kukhulunywa $47,530 unyaka ngaphambi kwezimali.
Funda lokhu njengelinganiso kumsebenzi ojwayelekile, hhayi kumsebenzi wakho. Yini le sisekelo, nokuthi yini eshiya ngaphandle
futhi icabanga ukuthi uthola umsebenzi. Wonke umbhalo wokukhokha emuva kule sayithi uhambisana nokusebenza. Lokhu kuyisinqumo sokuba umsebenzisi ogunyaziwe uthola ubalo phezulu ukhona ukubheka, futhi kuyisinqumo sokuba wonke amanye amasayithi okukhokha akwenza ngokucophelela.
Odingayo ngaphambi kokuqala
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
Ungayenzi lokhu uma
- 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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