What is the salary range for nurses?

Answer 1

---- Grade Annual salary in Sterling (£) ---- D-Grade £17,060 to £18,830 E-Grade £18,230 to £22,015 F-Grade £20,220 to £25,250 G-Grade £23,860 to £28,070 H-Grade £26,650 to £31,960

Answer 2

Interesting question as both of us are RNs (male and female) in Ohio. When we first started work after graduation I went to the VA medical center and started out at $12.50/hour in 1992. In 2005 I was working in the cardio-pulmonary unit and occasionally doing agency nursing on the side and was making anywhere from $20.00-$45.00 per hour. depending on the type of nursing (home care, nursing home or hospital). My better half has stayed in a Dayton, Ohio Hospital in the ICU for 20 years now and makes a steady$38.25/hour. Nursing is undergoing ALOT of changes today. If you want to work in a hospital you HAVE to have an RN degree. Most hospitals like to hire RNs with at least a bachelors degree (4 years of college called a BSN degree) Ten years ago you could go a lot further with just an RN Associate Degree in nursing, not true anymore. As the practice of medicine becomes more specialized so to are the doctors and nurses.

LPNs (a step lower than the Associate RN) are basically confined to nursing homes or a more stabilized type of care. Unsure of their exact pay scale but a good guess would be mid to high teens per hour. One can usually get a LPN in 18 months (my guess).

***My advice: 1) Become a nurse because you likehelping people and not because of the pay scale. Otherwise it will catch up to you and you will run into problems down the road. 2) Get your RN degree. If you want to start at an Associate degree level...fine but then work your way up to a BSN at a minimum. You will have a lot more doors open to you at that level.....even administration work. 3) In our area there is no longer a nursing shortage, in fact we have too many nursing schools within a 50 miles radius. **However that changes with the economy. When the economy is bad (people get laid off) a lot of women enter the nursing arena, even if they do not like nursing. When the economy is good and there are other fields hiring workers the number of nurses typically will go down. ***About the schooling....The Associate's degree is 2 years and the BSN degree is 4 years, however keep in mind: the nursing field of study can be difficult and the overwhelming majority of students usually require or choose to take an extra year (or 2) to graduate! Hope this answer helps you out.