Nurse Practitioners, do you have the best job in America? – Nurse Recruiter

Nurse Practitioners, do you have the best job in America?

Shout out to all our Nurse Practitioners out there! Did you see this, and do you agree? Is #NursePractitionerLife the best possible life?⁣

Every year, U.S. News & World Report releases new rankings of the Best Jobs in America, and this year NPs aren’t just listed as the best job in health care … they’ve got the best job, period, in the whole country!

Nurse Practitioners rank #1 in the 100 Best Jobs in America, and have the #1 Best Healthcare Job

For each job, the publication weighs up the profession’s future prospects, wage potential, employment, job safety and stability, and work-life balance. NPs do especially well on future prospects: as an NP your upward mobility is high, and they decided that this more than makes up for an above-average stress level.⁣

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Wait, what about all the other nurses?

It’s good news for Nurse Anesthetists, who also rank in the top 20 of America’s 100 Best Jobs. That makes it the fifth-best job in healthcare, thanks to outstanding wage potential and high upward mobility.⁣

Registered Nurses collectively come in at a less favorable, but still pretty decent #18 in healthcare and #54 overall. Better than being a sports coach, dentist or art director apparently!⁣

Personally, we think RN careers are too diverse to be done justice in a ranking like this, though, as the huge variety among the thousands of RN openings on our job board demonstrates. Depending on your specialty and where you live, nurse wages will range from top-paying jobs to undervalued, and there’s an enormous gap between the most stressful and least stressful RN jobs.

Things look more unambiguously grim for our valued LPN and LVN colleagues, however, whose much-needed hard work remains shamefully under-appreciated. Facing an above average stress level, below average upward mobility, and a low work-life balance score, they are left being ranked #30 in healthcare and #88 overall by U.S. News & World Report.

That’s no reflection on your skills or efforts, but a wake-up call for your employers to improve your working conditions! We can’t force them to give you your due, but if you’re not getting recognized for your work, the best way to improve your prospects is to always keep exploring your options.

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