anyone here a nurse? is a nurse salary enough to live on?

As a regular staff nurse doing direct patient care, you could make anywhere from $25-$35 per hour as a new graduate working in a hospital. A bit less per hour if you live in rural areas, or work in a clinic or nursing home. Many nurses work only part time because the wage is good and many places offer full benefits packages with as little as half-time status in some cases.

If you are single with no dependents and you can't support yourself on a nurse's salary, you're doing something drastically wrong with your budgeting. I work part time (about 24-28 hours per week), own a home, have kids, and am essentially the main income of the household as my hubby is self-employed and business has been terrible with this weak economy. We aren't well-off, but we do make ends meet.

im not a nurse but my sister is and she makes more than enough but it also depends where you live and work..but my advice to you is don't do it if your just doing it for the money, being a nurse doesn't only have to do with how much you make you have to be a good person, understanding, and patient and have a very good heart it takes a lot to work with sick people.

YES!

I'm becoming an LPN and plan to take some sort of LPN-to-RN or LPN-to-BSN program after wards. LPNs make on average $40,000 a year and RNs make even more than that.

yes definitely. great pay. and you can work overtime to make some extra moolah

my life drastically improved after my mom became an RN. drastically!!