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Nursing salary preview: What can RNs expect in 2012?

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Specialty certifications do play a role in determining salaries. The 2011 salary survey conducted by Advance for Nurses magazine indicated that nurses who have specialty certifications earn approximately $7.36 more per hour than nurses with no specialty certifications. Which certification gives you the biggest salary boost? According to PayScale, it’s “Critical Care,” with certified RNs typically earning $20.16 to $39.47 per hour. Other specialty certifications top out somewhere between $35 and $37 per hour.

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Cynthia Dusseault

Cynthia Dusseault is a professional freelance writer with both a health and an education background. A former medical radiation technologist and elementary school teacher, she realized that no matter what she did, she was drawn to any task that involved writing, so she decided, over a decade ago, to write full-time. Since then, she has written for a variety of magazines and websites including Nursing PRN, National Review of Medicine, University Affairs, Your Health, Education Leaders Today, Today's Parent, Children's Playmate, WeightWatchers.ca and many more. She has written about topics such as asthma, genital herpes, circumcision, teleradiology, body art, learning disabilities and exercise trends, and she absolutely adores the fact that writing—particularly doing the research for the articles she writes—makes her a lifelong learner.