Overview of Nursing Careers
Average Salary:
$70,000
What is nursing? Registered nurses with bachelor's degrees provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public, and provide advice and emotional help to patients and their families. Nurses also hold leadership, research, and administration positions in health systems.
Average Salary:
$45,030
What is nursing? Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) are a type of nurses who provide basic nursing care. LPN’s monitor patient health, basic nursing health, and ensure the basic comfort off patients. Licensed practice nurses most often work in long-term care and nursing homes.
Average Salary:
$110,930
What is nursing? Nurse Practitioners are Advanced Practiced Registered Nurses, who with greater education, provide higher levels of care, conducting physical exams, ordering tests, diagnose disease, provide treatments, and prescribe medications.
Average Salary:
$170,000
What is nursing? Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA’s) are Advanced Practice Registered Nurses who specialize in providing anesthesia care to patients during surgery, child birth, and other procedures. CRNA’s have broad responsibilities to take care of the patient during surgery.
Average Salary:
$24,000
What is nursing? A Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) performs the basics of personal care for patients, assisting in feeding, dressing, and bathing patient. A CNA may be responsible for taking a patient’s temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, or blood pressure.
Average Salary:
$110,930
What is nursing? A Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) is a specialized Advanced Practice Nurse who specializes in treating women, assisting in delivering babies, and providing prenatal care. Nurse Midwives also provide health education and counseling to women of all ages.