California Nurses and Nursing Education

The University of California, San Francisco's Center for California Health Workforce Studies, notes that nursing school graduates have increased 73 percent during the last five years.  In California, nurses average a 9.6 hour workday and 45 percent of nurses in California are over 50 years old according to the Board of Registered Nurses.  The average nurse in California is estimated at a salary of approximately $73,500.