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Also called cardiac care unit nurse, cardiac nurse specialist, ccu nurse and central supply nurse.
$97,550
Median pay a year
3,379,720
People do this work
6
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Registered Nurse
1 certification
Summary
Registered Nurse assessing patient health, developing and implementing care plans, and maintaining medical records while administering care to ill or disabled patients. Monitors symptoms, provides first aid, and collaborates with healthcare teams
Experience
Registered Nurse
Where you worked
Month Year to Month Year
Administered medications to patients and monitored for reactions or side effects
Monitored, recorded, and reported symptoms or changes in patients' conditions
Provided health care, first aid, and immunizations in schools, hospitals, or industry
Consulted and coordinated with healthcare team members to evaluate patient care plans
Prepared patients for and assisted with examinations or treatments
Skills
Core Skills
Monitoring activities, Designing health programs, Recording medical histories, Informing about patient conditions, Conducting research, Monitoring patient progress, Monitoring post-surgery patients, Monitoring health or behavior, Examining patients
Checking & Planning
Testing biological specimens
Education
Bachelor's Degree Your college, Year
Certifications & Licenses
State license for this work Your state board, Year
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Recorded patients' medical information and vital signsAdministered medications and monitored patient reactionsMaintained accurate and detailed reports and recordsMonitored and reported changes in patients' conditionsConsulted with healthcare team members on patient careInstructed individuals on health education and disease prevention
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Recorded patients' medical information and vital signs, ensuring accurate documentation for ongoing care
Maintained detailed reports and records to support effective patient management and communication with healthcare teams
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Recorded patients' medical information and vital signs at every patient visit, ensuring accurate documentation for ongoing care
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Every patient visitMultiple times a dayAt each shift change
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Maintained detailed reports and records to support effective patient management and communication with healthcare teams
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Helped reduce medication errorsEnhanced communication among staff
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Monitoring activities
Designing health programs
Recording medical histories
Informing about patient conditions
Conducting research
Monitoring patient progress
Monitoring post-surgery patients
Monitoring health or behavior
Testing biological specimens
Examining patients
Assessing social environments
Evaluating patient outcomes
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What a Registered Nurse does
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Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required.
What it pays
How much does a Registered Nurse make?
Annual pay across the United States. The middle figure is the median: half earn less than that, and half earn more.
25th percentile
$80,330
Median
$97,550
75th percentile
$112,350
About 3,379,720 people do this work in the United States.
What it pays in each state
State
25th percentile
Median
75th percentile
AK
$97,700
$109,480
$129,100
AL
$63,500
$77,080
$83,380
AR
$66,640
$78,940
$90,280
AZ
$81,810
$99,500
$108,580
CA
$122,440
$140,270
$173,170
CO
$84,590
$100,260
$108,930
CT
$86,120
$102,740
$121,840
DC
$85,850
$102,540
$127,800
DE
$85,900
$99,520
$111,720
FL
$78,660
$84,190
$101,180
GA
$79,090
$93,550
$106,330
HI
$101,200
$136,320
$144,140
IA
$68,290
$78,630
$85,940
ID
$80,900
$92,460
$102,320
IL
$80,020
$95,990
$105,960
IN
$78,750
$83,500
$100,410
KS
$73,300
$79,320
$94,700
KY
$75,670
$81,040
$97,200
LA
$69,040
$80,230
$93,600
MA
$87,460
$104,550
$136,110
MD
$83,740
$99,790
$107,340
ME
$79,890
$86,990
$101,460
MI
$82,080
$94,300
$103,450
MN
$88,940
$101,510
$114,760
MO
$76,050
$81,780
$98,560
MS
$64,930
$77,090
$84,500
MT
$80,210
$85,280
$100,800
NC
$78,770
$84,350
$102,040
ND
$69,620
$80,730
$93,080
NE
$79,240
$84,730
$99,640
NH
$82,880
$99,700
$108,400
NJ
$99,710
$106,500
$127,730
NM
$80,960
$94,340
$102,750
NV
$86,850
$103,670
$120,270
NY
$94,840
$109,440
$129,660
OH
$79,200
$82,510
$99,030
OK
$77,350
$82,920
$98,910
OR
$107,220
$129,010
$134,420
PA
$80,610
$96,430
$104,730
PR
$38,170
$39,880
$49,340
RI
$81,840
$100,640
$107,100
SC
$77,320
$82,360
$97,230
SD
$65,070
$78,060
$84,280
TN
$75,460
$81,500
$95,250
TX
$79,170
$95,970
$105,100
UT
$80,050
$84,600
$105,130
VA
$80,090
$93,600
$103,030
VT
$82,210
$97,460
$105,210
WA
$103,100
$124,200
$134,240
WI
$81,920
$95,530
$102,610
WV
$68,160
$80,130
$99,770
WY
$77,890
$83,760
$101,100
Other names
Other names for this job
cardiac care unit nurse, cardiac nurse specialist, ccu nurse, central supply nurse, certified operating room nurse, charge nurse, circulating nurse, community health nurse, consultant nurse, consulting nurse, coronary care unit nurse, county nurse.
More names for this work
delivery nurse, dialysis nurse, dialysis registered nurse, emergency department registered nurse, emergency room nurse, emergency room registered nurse, endoscopy registered nurse, er nurse, field nurse, flight nurse, forensic nurse, general duty nurse, genetics nurse, geriatric nurse, home health registered nurse, hospice registered nurse, industrial nurse, industrial registered nurse, industrial staff nurse, infection control nurse, labor and delivery nurse, labor and delivery registered nurse, legal nurse consultant, LNC, maternity nurse, medical registered nurse, medical surgical registered nurse, medical surgical telemetry registered nurse, medical surgical travel registered nurse, neonatal intensive care registered nurse, neonatal nurse, nephrology nurse, nurse, nurse clinician, nurse consultant, nurse receptionist, ob gyn nurse, ob nurse, ob scrub nurse, obstetrical nurse, obstetrics gynecology nurse, obstetrics nurse, obstetrics scrub nurse, occupational health nurse, occupational nurse, oncology nurse, oncology registered nurse, operating room nurse.
If you served
Military jobs this work counts as
From the crosswalk the US Department of Labor publishes itself. If one of these was your job, this page is about the civilian work it maps to.
46F1 Flight Nurse
66N Generalist Nurse
0932 Perioperative Nurse
46S1 Operating Room Nurse
46A1 Nursing Administrator
66B Army Public Health Nurse
0944 Professional Registered Nurse
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This page is about the occupation Registered Nurses. What this job involves and what it is made of come from O*NET 30.3, the US Department of Labor's occupation database, refreshed July 2026; Rung writes those records into the plain sentences you see. Pay comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS release for 2025. Rung is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by either agency. How Rung handles accuracy is on the accuracy page, and the full data credits are on the credits page.