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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nursing always gets mentioned as a good "second career".  However, it's not exactly lucrative.  The average RN makes $60-75K.  (check the web for about a zillion salary surveys that attest to this).  You can make more in certain states (California being #1--nurses are unionized and make more than anywhere else in the US).  You can also make more by working more hours (a previous poster makes "six figures" working three 18 hour shifts per week).  The problem is, hospital nursing is physically demanding work.  As an RN, I can't imagine working these hours  as a 25 year old, let alone as a "40 something".  More power to the poster who does!!  Then you can make more as an Advanced Practice Nurse (NP or anesthetist), especially in more lucrative specialties like orthopedics and nurse anesthesia (although salaries are falling in anesthesia as the market is currently saturated).  However, working as an NP or a nurse anesthetist requires a master's degree and in anesthesia it's a full-time 3 year masters.

Nursing can be a great career and provides a comfortable standard of living in much of the US.  However, the salaries don't go far at all in DC.  All the RNs I know that work in DC hospitals are 1) married to someone who makes significantly more money or 2) are young and live in apartments or 3) commute in for work from some very far flung suburb.

[/quote]Not all nursing is bedside.  There is Utilization Review, Case Management which covers everything from renal to workers' comp, medical records review, OR, radiology nursing, recruitment, etc.

You do a disservice to the profession by giving the impression that all nursing is back breaking though there definitely are areas that have more physically demanding work.  There are many areas that accommodate different types of nursing.  Agency and travel nurses can make six figures easily but no benefits (many nurses ride on a spouse's benfits).

And, yes, I am a 25-year administrative RN.  We graciously agree to disagree on some points.  [/quote]

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