Working as a nurse in Romania
What official sources say about working as a nurse in Romania: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
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
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals" in Romania: ≈ 1,038 EUR/month (gross, 2022), from Eurostat. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of nurses alone.
Regulation and recognition
Nurse is a regulated profession in Romania.
- 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
An exact current shortage-list record is published for nurse in Romania: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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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 citation
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