2,000+ Registered Nurse Jobs Near Me (Hiring Now in Aug 2026)

Searching for registered nurse jobs near me usually means wading through stale listings, duplicate posts, and roles that quietly closed weeks ago. This page fixes that. As of Aug 2026, it tracks 2,000+ open registered nurse jobs gathered directly from employer career pages, spanning hospital units, home health, skilled nursing, correctional health, and case management. Counts update as employers post and close roles, so the number you see reflects today, not last quarter.

RN hiring is national, so this list is national too. It blends staff positions at major health systems with community hospital roles, private duty home care, PRN shifts, and hybrid case management work, which means you can search by what actually fits your life: a unit within commuting distance, a per diem schedule you control, or a role that trades the bedside for care coordination. Registered nursing remains one of the most in-demand licenses in the country, and the volume here, 2,000+ live openings at once, reflects exactly that. Instead of guessing what near me means, the page puts hospital, home, and hybrid openings side by side and lets you decide.

Registered nurse pay varies by metro more than in almost any other licensed profession, so the honest answer depends on where you practice. The most reliable way to see the top of the market is public payroll data, which records what nurses were actually paid rather than what surveys estimate. In San Francisco, city payroll covering 1,705 registered nurses shows median total compensation of $242,897, and you can inspect the full distribution in Bandana's Registered Nurse salary data for San Francisco. Just across the bay, Contra Costa County's payroll covers 587 registered nurses at a median of $244,038, documented in the Registered Nurse salary data for Contra Costa County.

Read those two figures as reference points for the profession's ceiling, not as national averages. They come from public employers in the most expensive labor market in the country, where union scales, differentials, and overtime push total compensation well above base wages. Most metros pay less in absolute terms, and lower cost regions often stretch further after housing. What the reference points prove is the shape of the career: nursing pay is built from a base rate plus night, weekend, and holiday differentials, overtime, certification premiums, and unit-specific incentives, so two nurses with the same title at the same hospital can take home very different amounts depending on how they build their schedules. When you compare the listings below, weigh the whole package rather than the posted rate alone, and treat any single national average you see elsewhere with suspicion, because averages flatten exactly the differences that decide what an offer is worth to you.

Health systems and hospitals anchor the list. Ochsner Health System posts acute care roles across the Gulf South, MedStar Health hires throughout the mid-Atlantic, and University of Vermont Health recruits for its academic and community campuses. Community and regional hospitals are here in force as well: Mission Hospital, Trios Health, and Haywood Regional Medical Center all have live openings, and hospitals of that size are often the fastest movers in the market, because a single vacancy strains an entire unit's schedule and managers know it.

The rest of the list shows how far the license travels beyond the hospital. Genesis HealthCare hires RNs into skilled nursing and rehabilitation settings, where clinical leadership comes earlier than it does in acute care. Aveanna Healthcare staffs home health and private duty cases, including one-on-one pediatric care. VitalCore Health Strategies recruits nurses for correctional health, a corner of the profession with steady demand and unusual autonomy. RCM Healthcare Services places nurses across client facilities, a useful route when you want variety or a foot in the door at a system that is not hiring directly. Same license, very different weeks, and the differences show up in schedule, acuity, and independence more than in the title.

Acute care makes up the core of the list. Recent postings include Registered Nurse Trauma Spine and Registered Nurse - General Medicine positions, the specialty unit and med-surg roles most nurses train into first. For nurses early in their careers, listings like Nurse Extern Progressive Care Unit PRN offer a paid path onto a higher acuity unit while still in school or newly licensed, which remains one of the most reliable ways to convert training into a staff position on the same floor.

Outside the hospital walls, the range is wide. Private Duty Registered Nurse (RN) roles pair one nurse with one patient, often a child with complex medical needs, on shifts that home health agencies fill around the clock. Transition of Care Case Manager (Registered Nurse) positions, including hybrid schedules, move experienced nurses into coordination work that keeps discharged patients from bouncing back, part desk work and part clinical judgment. Across every setting, PRN and per diem postings trade benefits for premium hourly rates and control of your own calendar, which is why per diem lines on this list can look surprisingly rich next to salaried roles. Let the schedule keywords in each title, PRN, part time, hybrid, do your first round of filtering before you read a single description.

The national baseline is consistent even though every state runs its own board. You need a nursing degree, an associate or bachelor of science in nursing, a passing score on the NCLEX-RN, and an active license from the board of nursing in the state where your patients are located. A majority of states now participate in the Nurse Licensure Compact, which lets nurses holding a multistate license practice across member states without applying separately in each one, a real advantage if you live near a state line or want options. Most acute care employers also expect basic life support certification, with advanced certifications for critical care and emergency units, and many hospitals prefer the bachelor's degree for new staff hires even when the posting technically accepts either.

Make your application easy to say yes to. Lead with your license state and status, list certifications with expiration dates, and describe experience in concrete terms: unit type, patient population, typical ratios, and the record systems you know. For home health and private duty roles, call out independent judgment and any pediatric, trach, or ventilator experience. For case management, emphasize discharge planning and payer knowledge. Recruiters in this market move quickly, and the complete application gets the first call.

Browse the live openings below and sort by what matters most to you first, whether that is location, schedule, setting, or specialty. Each listing links directly to the employer's own career page, so your application lands in their real hiring system rather than a third party inbox. Apply to several roles at once, keep your license and certification documents ready to upload, and expect community hospitals and home health agencies to move faster than large systems. New roles post daily and close as units fill, so act on a good match rather than saving it for the weekend. Every listing on this page is verified and sourced directly from employer career pages, so each one is current and actively hiring.

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