The nursing shortage is so critical that someone graduating with only a two-year nursing degree has his/her choice of nursing jobs at relatively high salaries. The average starting salary for RNs is $56,000.
The New York Daily News featured a story on the nursing job market and cited statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the American Nurses Association. The average nurse is 50 years old, and nursing schools have had to turn away students because there weren’t enough faculty to teach. I wrote about this last month is Over 41,000 Qualified Nursing School Applicants Rejected in 2005.
The nursing profession is a goldmine. As baby boomers enter retirement and require long term care, nursing school graduates will be able to command a lot more than $56,000 a year.
