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Q. Are any of the items, listed, tax deductions for RNs? A. No. Regular W-2 employees are no longer (since 2018) allowed to deduct job expenses, including education.   Regular W-2 employees are not allowed to deduct job expenses, including any of the items you listed. If you're self employed, you can deduct expenses, as a business expense, on schedule C.   Deductions on the state return may be allowed  in AL, AR, CA, HI, MN, NY or PA.  If so, this will come up in the state interview, in TurboTax.   Even in the "old days" , job expenses were only a misc. itemized deduction.  You only got to deduct that portion of  your misc. itemized deductions that exceeded 2% of your AGI,  and then only if your total  itemized deductions exceeded the standard deduction (which was doubled under the 2018 tax law. .  (2% rule explained: https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2902781-what-is-the-2-rule ).    For Continuing education and training: if the courses were taken at a recognized college or vocational school (educational institutions eligible to participate in the student aid programs administered by the Department of Education),  you may be able to  take the Lifetime Learning Credit (but not the  more generous American Opportunity credit).

@user17591658047  agreeing with my colleague @Opus 17 , under article 19 para1, your govt. pension for services rendered to India, the pension distribution is only taxable by India Your passive earnings  ( interest / dividend etc. ) are however taxable in US.  India may also tax these incomes. If India taxes these incomes and you wish to avail of  foreign tax credit, then you have to file a return. Additionally if the gross world income ( exclusive of  Govt. pension) is above the deduction ( itemized ), you probably have to file a return. My general sense is that  ( especially given the current political environment) it is probably better for you to file a 1040 return showing your world income ( pension, passive income etc. ), excluding the pension income ( as  negative "other" with notation  " US-India Tax Treaty article 19 " and claiming Foreign Tax Credit ( if there is any passive/interest earning taxed by India ) --- note that because of  US and India tax calendars being different , you may have allocate the incomes according to US tax Calendar.  This should result in nil to very little  US taxes. Assuming that your GoI pension and interest earnings are deposited into an Indian bank account, as a US person ( citizen/GreenCard/Resident for Tax purposes ), you do come under FBAR  ( ONLY on-line form 114 at FinCen.gov) and FATCA  ( form8939 along with your  form 1040 ) -- see requirements  here  --> Comparison of Form 8938 and FBAR requirements | Internal Revenue Service I am assuming from your post so far that  you are living here with GreenCard with  family and therefore may not be moving funds between India and US.  However, note  that  any movement of US$10,000 or more  ( domestic or international) always result in SAR ( Suspicious Activity Report )  being raised by US bank as a matter of course -- no impact on anything. Is there more one of us can do for you ?  You can post here or PM me ( just NO PII -- Personally Identifiable Information)   Namaste ji