The NSW government has offered the state's 43,000 nurses and midwives a 3.9 per cent wage increase and the union says a decision on whether it is acceptable will be made within days.
NSW Nurses Association general secretary Brett Holmes said the government's conditional offer would be detailed at a meeting of the union's council tonight, with branch meetings to follow next week.
"It's a 3.9 per cent pay increase over a one-year agreement," Mr Holmes told AAP today.
"The government has proposed an extensive number of conditions and offsets as a part of that offer and we'll be analysing those urgently.
"We're not making any judgment on it at this point."
The union lodged a claim in February calling for a five per cent wage increase every year for four years, along with improvements to night duty penalty rates and measures which recognise experienced nurses.
The nurses' enterprise bargaining agreement expires on June 30 and Mr Holmes said conditions would have to improve if the government was to meet its aim of recruiting more nurses.
"It's got to be competitive and it's got to properly reward the nurses and midwives who are holding the health system together," he said.
