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Registered Nurses
$81.22K Median Salary 194.5K Job Openings (Annual Projection) 9% Job Growth
About This Career
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.
Reported Job Titles
Certified Operating Room Nurse (CNOR), Charge Nurse, Emergency Department RN (Emergency Department Registered Nurse), Oncology RN (Oncology Registered Nurse), Operating Room Registered Nurse (OR RN), Psychiatric RN (Psychiatric Registered Nurse), Relief Charge Nurse, School Nurse, Staff Nurse, Staff RN (Staff Registered Nurse)
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Skills You'll Need
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Abilities
Deductive Reasoning
Problem Sensitivity
Inductive Reasoning
Oral Comprehension
Oral Expression
Written Comprehension
Information Ordering
Near Vision
Speech Clarity
Speech Recognition
Written Expression
Category Flexibility
Flexibility of Closure
Arm-Hand Steadiness
Far Vision
Finger Dexterity
Fluency of Ideas
Manual Dexterity
Memorization
Perceptual Speed
Selective Attention
Speed of Closure
Time Sharing
Trunk Strength
Mathematical Reasoning
Multilimb Coordination
Number Facility
Originality
Static Strength
Visualization
Knowledge
Psychology
Customer and Personal Service
Medicine and Dentistry
English Language
Administrative
Mathematics
Therapy and Counseling
Administration and Management
Education and Training
Public Safety and Security
Biology
Skills
Social Perceptiveness
Active Listening
Coordination
Critical Thinking
Service Orientation
Speaking
Judgment and Decision Making
Reading Comprehension
Monitoring
Writing
Active Learning
Complex Problem Solving
Instructing
Learning Strategies
Time Management
Operations Monitoring
Systems Analysis
Systems Evaluation
Technology Skills
Medical software
Word processing software
Data base user interface and query software
Electronic mail software
Cloud-based data access and sharing software
Human resources software
Spreadsheet software
Categorization or classification software
Video conferencing software
Video creation and editing software
Office suite software
Operating system software
Business intelligence and data analysis software
Time accounting software
Presentation software
Web page creation and editing software
Project management software
Calendar and scheduling software
Information retrieval or search software
Tools
Peripherally inserted central catheters PICC
Medical or surgical suction or vacuum appliances
Acute care fetal or maternal monitoring units
Endoscopic hemostatic balloons or needles or tubes or accessories
Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment
Medical oxygen masks or parts
Glucose monitors or meters
Manual resuscitators
Reflex hammers or mallets
Diagnostic or interventional vascular catheters for general use
Enteral feeding administration sets
Electronic blood pressure units
Clinical incubators or infant warmers
Surgical clamps or clips or forceps
Cardiac output CO monitoring units
Hypodermic needle
Surgical drains or drain sets
Leg traction supplies
Intravenous or arterial tubing adapter or connector
Phacoemulsification or extrusion or vitrectomy equipment for ophthalmic surgery
Therapeutic heating or cooling blankets or drapes
Flow sensors or regulators or components
Infusion pump kits
Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
Enteral feeding infusion pump tubing sets
Mobile medical services torso immobilizers
Ventilator accessories
Intubation laryngoscopes
Eye charts or vision cards
Arm traction supplies
Mobile medical services automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
Patient lifts
Cardiac pacemaker generators or cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers CRT-P
Restraint vests and jackets
Gait belts for rehabilitation or therapy
Medical gas cylinders or related devices
Respiratory humidifiers or vaporizers
Pulse oximeter units
Vascular sequential compression devices or tubing
Tuberculin syringes
Medical head hoods
Respiratory manometer kits
Intravenous syringe infusion pumps
Hand or finger traction supplies
Hand held dopplers
Lancets
Non invasive continuous positive air pressure machines
Clinical hydraulic lifts
Arterial blood gas monitors
Spirometers
Medication or pill dispensers
Intraaortic balloon pumps
Vascular or compression apparel or support
Intracranial pressure ICP monitoring units
Perfusion oxygen or hematocrit saturation monitors
Ventricular assist devices
Endoscopic or surgical light sources
Colposcopes or vaginoscopes
Head or neck traction supplies
Mobile resuscitator or aspirator kits
Medical acoustic stethoscopes
Non invasive bi level machines
Electronic encyclopedias
Intravenous or arterial extension tubing
Continuous passive motion CPM devices
Extremity restraints
Autotransfusion units
Gastric decompression tubes
Cervical collars or neck braces
Patient bed or table scales for general use
Enema kits
Endotracheal tubes
Surgical needle holders
Benchtop centrifuges
Vaginal exam speculas
Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines
Holter or wearable EKG monitoring systems or accessories
Sputum collection apparatus or containers
Surgical suction machine or vacuum extractor or ultrasonic surgical aspirator
Radio frequency transmitters or receivers
Medical or surgical suction sets or kits
Patient controlled analgesia infusion pumps
Multiparameter vital sign units
Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits
Vision testing stereoscopes
Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
Restraint straps or buckles or supplies
Spill kits
Hemodialysis dialyzer reprocessing systems
Urinary catheterization kits
Tracheostomy accessories
Anesthesia nerve block kit or tray
Intravenous infusion pump analyzers or sensors
Pelvis or back traction supplies
Lap mayo trays or mayo stands for surgical use
Walkers or rollators
Sexual assault determination kits
Urological procedure trays or packs or kits
Clinical trapeze bars
Ultraviolet UV lamps
Heating or drying equipment or accessories
Surgical retractors
Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
Suture removal kits or trays or packs or sets
Blood warming or transfusion systems
Orthopedic splint systems
Patient motion sensors or alarms
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units
Patient care beds for general use
Respiratory aspirator products
Esophagogastroduodenoscopes or gastroduodenoscopes or gastroscopes
Urinalysis analyzers
Sigmoidoscopes
Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs
Orthopedic traction hardware or weights
Colonoscopes
Personal computers
Mobile medical services head immobilizers
Medical syringes without needle
Skin staple removers or kits
Oxygen therapy delivery system products
Medical nasal cannulas
Electrocardiography EKG transmitters or telemetry devices
Lower extremity prosthetic devices
Audiometers
Canes
Arterial line catheters
Apnea monitors
Surgical drapes
Nasogastric tubes
Electrocardiography EKG units
Blood collection needles
Upper extremity prosthetic devices
Crutches
Nebulizers
Medical tuning forks
Notebook computers
Mobile medical services spine boards
Intubation stylets
Tourniquets
Laser printers
Suture needles
Umbilical catheters
Urinalysis test strips
Tablet computers
Binocular light compound microscopes
