Nursing Process, an independent education website, used factors such as staffing levels, administrative demand, support and safety conditions to determine some of the nursing jobs with the least stress. They then used job sites like ZipRecruiter to determine the average salary for those positions.
Here are the 30 least stressful nursing jobs and their average pay:
- Postpartum care: $148,604
- Wound care nurse: $127,569
- Occupational health nurse: $115,441
- Nurse educator: $104,347
- Pre/post-op nurse: $103,422
- Informatics nurse: $100,000
- Nurse entrepreneur: $100,000
- Vaccine nurse: $96,000
- Medical supply or device educator: $95,208
- Clinical educator: $92,394
- Laser hair removal nurse: $88,341
- Nurse recruiter: $85,992
- Case management: $83,475
- Infusion nurse: $82,581
- Stress test lab nurse: $80,673
- Hospice house nurse: $80,290
- Legal nurse consultant: $78,317
- Virtual helpline nurse: $77,285
- Research nurse: $76,408
- Private duty nurse: $74,828
- College health clinic nurse: $74,616
- Community health nurse: $71,231
- Clinic nurse: $68,442
- Office nurse: $67,499
- IV team nurse: $65,925
- Health coach: $64,340
- Parenteral or enteral nurse: $61,651
- School nurse: $61,430
- Nurse writer: $56,472
- Resort or cruise nurse: $54,000
