Overview & Salary
Overview
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.
On the job, you would:
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
- Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
Education
- bachelor's degree
- certificate after high school
Salary
Annual 10th percentile $66,030
Annual median $93,600
Annual 90th percentile $135,320
Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge
Math and Science
- psychology
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Business
- customer service
- administrative services
Health
- medicine and dentistry
- therapy and counseling
Arts and Humanities
- English language
Skills
Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Social
- understanding people's reactions
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
Personality & Abilities
Personality
Social
People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
- Dependability
- Attention to Detail
- Cooperation
- Concern for Others
- Integrity
- Stress Tolerance
Abilities
Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
Visual Understanding
- see hidden patterns
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
Attention
- do two or more things at the same time