Among biggest jobs, nurses' salaries stand above
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If the job security promised by a projected shortfall of 1,800 registered nurses by 2010 is not enough to persuade Rhode Islanders to go into the field, consider this: among occupations with employment of more than 2 million, the national average salary of registered nurses ($65,130) is more than double that of its closest competitors, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Monday. To help boost Rhode Island's nursing ranks, a special legislative commission recently proposed a $3,500 tax credit for nursing school instructors, Providence Journal writer C. Eugene Emery Jr. has reported. 
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