81. May 8th is National Student Nurses’ Day.
82. According to a 2001 World Health Organization report, the number of psychiatric nurses in developed countries is about 33.5 per 100,000 persons.
83. The first week of May is National Hospital Week and Health Care Administrators’ Week.
84. In the various U.S. Military branches, approximately one-third of all nurses are male.
85. In 2000, there were 57,954 school nurses looking out for the health of 52 million students.
86. The Nurses Registration Act of 1919 established the first oversight of nursing training and standards in Great Britain.
87. There were 885 existing associate’s degrees for nursing programs in the U.S. in 2002, comprising 32.0% of all registered nurses.
88. According to the latest data available to the World Health Organization, the United States has a ratio of 972 nurses per 100,000 people, or about the same as Germany and Uzbekistan.
89. In a 2001 survey done by the ANA/NursingWorld.com, 51% of nurses said they worked an average of 41 to 60 hours per week.
90. Mary Seacole, a self-taught nurse, was famous for establishing a hotel for invalids close to the front during the Crimean War.
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Im doing a project on nurses and this helped me a lot!!!!!!
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“95. The average annual earnings for licensed practical nurses was $29,440 in 2000″
I’ve been a RN since 1992 and, I hate to say, in 2000 I was making $28,000 in Missouri. There seems to be something wrong with that. Guess that’s one reason I left the area.
Some of these facts were very interesting. Thanks
Ok I,m a LPN in Rhode Island and I make WAYYYYY more than 29,000.00 dollars who the hell looked that stat up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I,m close to 60,000.00 and I have 35 years experience
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I believe it is a national average. In Rhode Island, where there is a higher cost of living compared to places like Mississippi, the salaries are higher. I can tell you from experience that as an LPN, I earned $10.25 an hour as a new grad in Ohio in 1996. I earned $30.00 an hour as an agency nurse in Connecticut in 2003. I earned $23.00 in North Carolina as a staff nurse in 2008. Salaries vary greatly, depending on the region you live in.
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