A nursing union is recommending its members accept a new pay offer from the Scottish Government.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the 6.5% increase from April, coupled with a promise of other changes, would make a "positive difference" to nurses.
The government implemented a 7.5% increase last year despite it being rejected by three health unions.
While they remain in dispute, they suspended strike action pending negotiations for the 2023/24 award.
Two other unions with members working in the NHS - Unison and Unite - accepted the previous year's pay award.
The Scottish Government said it had committed an extra £568million to the 2023/24 offer to 160,000 NHS Scotland workers on Agenda for Change contracts - who includes nurses, paramedics, midwives and porters.
Uplift
Staff up to band 8a would see an uplift of at least 6.5%.
In addition, all staff would receive a one-off payment between £387 and £939 depending on banding.
Julie Lamberth, who chairs the RCN Scotland board, said the government had also promised to review the Agenda for Change grading and pay system for staff.
"We have considered the offer from the Scottish government which includes a pay increase and a review of Agenda for Change and how it works for nursing," she told the BBC.
" We believe it will make a positive difference for our members which is why we are recommending they vote to accept the offer."
The union said the mandate for strike action remained, and if members rejected the offer it would look to announce strike dates.
The consultative ballot will open on Tuesday February 28 and close on Monday March 20.
- Seven days of strikes by tens of thousands of university staff have been paused.
The planned action during February and early March will no longer go ahead, said the University and College Union (UCU).
The union said it had made "significant progress" across multiple issues during talks with employers.
Pausing walkouts over the next fortnight will enable a "period of calm", Jo Grady of the UCU said.
The dispute is over pay and conditions, while some members are also striking over pensions.
Ms Grady, UCU general secretary, told the BBC: "To allow our ongoing negotiations to continue in a constructive environment, we have agreed to pause action across our pay and working conditions and USS pensions disputes for the next two weeks and create a period of calm."
The dispute over pensions began more than a decade ago, but was reignited by the revaluation of the pension scheme used by academic staff - the Universities Superannuation Scheme.