Top skills for Staff Nurse jobs
Based on 343 active Staff Nurse postings · updated Oct 8, 2026.
Skills employers ask for
The share of Staff Nurse postings that list each skill. Text that appears in almost every posting — equal-opportunity and benefits sections — is left out.
- Nursing87%
- Life Support55%
- Regulations37%
- Health Care32%
- Critical Thinking30%
- Microsoft Office25%
- Anatomy23%
- Occupational Safety and Health23%
- Physiology23%
- Teaching20%
- Acute Care18%
- Critical Care18%
- Professional Nursing17%
- Science17%
- Accountability16%
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)15%
- Nursing Practice14%
- Oncology9%
- Ethics8%
- Intensive Care8%
- Pain Management8%
- Periodicals8%
- Neonatal8%
- Resuscitation7%
- Radiology7%
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