Administrator Registered Nurse vs Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse has 63.6 times as many registry records as Administrator Registered Nurse: 148,485 against 2,336. Each count is the NPPES records whose primary taxonomy is the specialty, so it measures how providers describe their main practice, not everyone trained in it.

CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census population estimates · method

Administrator Registered Nurse: 2,336 records in 51 states

California303
New York229
Texas178
Florida112
Ohio105

Administrator Registered Nurse nationwide →

Registered Nurse: 148,485 records in 56 states

New York25,740
California13,506
Ohio9,656
Texas8,921
Washington5,708

Registered Nurse nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Administrator Registered Nurse	Registered Nurse	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
New York	229	25,740	1.2	131.5
California	303	13,506	0.8	34.7
Ohio	105	9,656	0.9	81.9
Texas	178	8,921	0.6	29.2
Washington	56	5,708	0.7	73.1
Michigan	90	5,589	0.9	55.7
Pennsylvania	47	5,372	0.4	41.4
Massachusetts	60	4,985	0.9	71.2
Florida	112	4,722	0.5	20.9
Colorado	68	4,610	1.2	78.4
Wisconsin	24	4,628	0.4	78.3
Minnesota	48	3,418	0.8	59.6
Georgia	87	3,284	0.8	29.8
Tennessee	32	3,269	0.4	45.9
Arizona	64	3,124	0.9	42.0
Illinois	52	2,628	0.4	20.9
Maryland	47	2,453	0.8	39.7
Oregon	50	2,449	1.2	57.9
North Carolina	53	2,100	0.5	19.4
South Carolina	59	1,761	1.1	32.8
New Jersey	27	1,613	0.3	17.4
Missouri	51	1,586	0.8	25.6
New Mexico	21	1,554	1.0	73.5
Indiana	42	1,480	0.6	21.6
Alabama	14	1,486	0.3	29.1
Oklahoma	25	1,456	0.6	35.9
Nevada	15	1,458	0.5	45.6
Virginia	54	1,282	0.6	14.8
Arkansas	16	1,216	0.5	39.6
Alaska	9	1,201	1.2	163.8
Kansas	24	997	0.8	33.9
West Virginia	15	1,003	0.8	56.7
Utah	20	990	0.6	29.0
Delaware	8	967	0.8	93.7
Nebraska	23	909	1.2	45.9
Hawaii	12	891	0.8	62.1
Kentucky	23	864	0.5	19.1
Louisiana	17	869	0.4	19.0
North Dakota	9	856	1.1	109.2
Iowa	13	833	0.4	26.0
District of Columbia	18	812	2.7	119.6
Rhode Island	5	813	0.5	74.2
South Dakota	17	799	1.8	86.9
Connecticut	15	751	0.4	20.8
Maine	7	612	0.5	43.8
Mississippi	12	596	0.4	20.3
Montana	6	524	0.5	46.3
Idaho	10	395	0.5	20.1
New Hampshire	6	377	0.4	26.9
Wyoming	16	367	2.7	62.8
Vermont	0	201	0.0	31.0

Source: CMS NPPES (NPPES files on CMS.gov), primary NUCC taxonomy by practice state; 2023 population estimates (census.gov).

Common questions

How many Administrator Registered Nurse providers are there vs Registered Nurse?

There are 2,336 Administrator Registered Nurse and 148,485 Registered Nurse records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Registered Nurse has records in 56 states and territories, against 51.

Where is the data from?

Provider counts are from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Per-capita rates use 2023 Census population estimates.

Two specialties are not substitutes: scope of practice, training and the conditions treated differ. More comparisons →

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of the NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026.