Salary for Clinical Nurse Specialists

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Clinical nurse specialists performing nursing functions in a clinical setting. Their duties involve developing treatment plans in cooperation with physicians, interviewing and evaluating patients to determine care requirements, monitoring patient conditions, making clinical recommendations to doctors and other medical personnel, training nursing students and medical staff, and developing and implementing nursing standards of care. A Master's degree is almost always required for this occupation.

A Clinical Nurse Specialist earns a pay level between $53,410 to $116,230 depending on the level of education. usually receive an average salary of eigthy thousand and ten dollars each year.

receive the highest compensation in California, where they receive average pay scales of close to about $120,560. This group of people are compensated most highly in Public Administration, where they can receive wages of $88,000.

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