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# Working as a nurse in Romania

In Romania, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 1,038 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Nurse is a regulated profession in Romania. Foreign qualifications go through: Specialist Nurse. In Romania, nurses are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals": ≈ 1,038 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: Specialist Nurse; General care nurse; General system of recognition - primary application; For the sectorally regulated general-care nurse/midwife route, apply to the competent nursing authority for qualification recognition; the automatic EU/EEA/Swiss recognition system is distinct from other-origin procedures. Frozen nursing-associate codes are not assigned this route by title alone.
- Recognition authority: Order of General Care Nurses, Nurses and Midwives in Romania (OAMGMAMR) for general-care nurse and midwife titles; nursing-associate roles are not assumed to share this route.
- Shortage list: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission

## Sources

JSON list[].id=657855; list[].name; list[].country; list[].directive; list[].qualification; list[].qualification_level — https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/regprof20/prodmigration/regprofs?lang=EN&id_country=27&pagenum=1&maxrows=100&sort_col=1&sort_dir=ASC
Current national directory of sectoral and other regulated-profession authorities and named professional titles. — https://cnred.edu.ro/en/competent-authorities/
NCO.json key=1; A=AT; B=2025; C=2143; D=Environmental engineers; E=Shortage; F=Low — https://eures.europa.eu/living-and-working/labour-shortages-and-surpluses-europe_en
Structure of Earnings Survey 2022 (earn_ses22_25) — https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/earn_ses22_25?lang=en&format=JSON&freq=A&sex=T&indic_se=ERN&sizeclas=10-49&unit=EUR&geo=RO

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Nurse in Romania: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version fdb33c55cb22354e2f054dd00cc15068]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/romania/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

### BibTeX

```bibtex
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_nurse-in-romania-salary-recognition-and-shortage-status_bdd2778b7dc7,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Nurse in Romania: salary, recognition and shortage status},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {fdb33c55cb22354e2f054dd00cc15068},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/romania/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

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