Retirement

I'm not aware of any minimum or mandatory retirement ages for nurses. I personally will work until the bitter end ...

The age of the company pension is essentially over, if that's the retirement to which you are referring. I don't know of any nursing positions in the area that provide a pension after working for a set number of years for that hospital, clinic, or facility.

Your retirement age will depend on how much you put away while you're working, how well it performs in the financial ventures in which you invest, and how much you need to live at a level of comfort that is acceptable to you.

There ARE nursing jobs that offer a retirement package at 20 years. They are in the military. And if you are already a nurse with a BSN, you stand a good chance of being accepted into one of their nursing programs. They'll even pay off your student loans in most cases or, if you don't have outstanding student loan balances, you'll be eligible for a signing bonus.

The downside is that you'll certainly be deploying away from your home for months (sometimes a year or more) at a time, you will relocate about every 3 to 4 years on average, and you're subject to more stringent physical fitness requirements than in the public sector. There's also the fact that you'll be in the military, which is a non-starter for a lot of people.

Hope this was helpful.

There are more "military" nursing positions that don't require uniforms. You can be a Civil Service employee and then you don't have to worry about deploying, et. al. They also have a retirement program. For me, I would get a head start. My military years + my prior Civilian Service years would shorten my work-to-retirement time down to 15 years.