The percentage of uninsured U.S. adults has dropped from 18 percent in 2013 to 13.4 percent, as of midway 2014, according to a survey by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Thatâs the lowest quarterly rate in more than six years of tracking the uninsured.
The salary prospects for clinical nurse leaders are very good, with a national median annual wage of $84,000. However, the role is reasonably new and currently focuses on the improvement of patient outcomes.
According to PayScale.com, the average nurse salary today is somewhere between $38,000 and $78,000 per year ($20- $37 per hour with $26 being the average). There can be huge differences in pay from place to place. There are several things that will affect this base rate of pay in your nurse salary. Some of these are: