I Passed! Zee_RN,CCRN!!

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I passed, I passed, I passed!!!! Oh my word, I cannot tell you how excited I am!!!

It was so scary, it was so hard. By question #147 I thought, "I'll never get through this, I'll never pass this!" When the computer shut down and said "Report to the supervisor for your results" I thought it meant I failed...I had been told the computer gives you results on the last screen. I was shaking like a leaf! There was an older woman supervising the place and she was so sweet! She went back to get my results and before she even emerged from the hallway she called out "CONGRATULATIONS!" I gave this woman I've never seen before in my life such a big hug!

The testing center was over an hour away from my house and it's 85 degrees and muggy today and the A/C in my car is on the blink! I gave myself two hours to get there and only made one wrong turn.

Now I'm gonna go find that website where I can order myself a CCRN pin!

:kiss

:balloons: :balloons: Congratulations!! That's wonderful! :balloons: :balloons:

Congratulations!

Ceritfication in any specialty is a major accomplishment.

CCRN exam is a difficult test.

For those interested here are links to the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) and the CCRN certification corporation.

http://www.aacn.org/

http://www.certcorp.org/

And the updated version of the book I used.

http://www.greatnurses.com/index.php?content=books.php

Specializes in Hospice, Critical Care.
originally posted by christian nurse

congratulations on becoming a ccrn!!! :roll

by the way, how do you become a ccrn?? an inquiring nursing mind wants to know.:saint:

you have to work in a critical care setting as a direct care provider rn for so many hours (i have it written down somewhere) over the last two years. you have to send in $300 (or $220 for aacn members). then you register for and sit for the 200-question, 4-hour exam. i took a 2-day review course, used the dennison textbook and the laura gasparis-vonfrolio audio tapes to study.

codebluechic, thanks for the link! i'll do that.!

3rdshiftguy, i know what you mean. i didn't have a good feeling either .... but i think that's the way they make those darn tests. you just can't come out of them feeling good. be sure to let us know when you get those positive results!

Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

:balloons: :biggringi Way to Go!!

I'm waiting on my CCM test results...keeping my fingers crosssed:chair:

Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

:balloons: I got my test results and passed!!...Sharing a high-five !

Specializes in OR,ER,med/surg,SCU.

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Wow, I can feel how excited you are, it's just popping right through my computer screen. AWSOME JOB

Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

I AM excited, Chrissy....this is the first credentialing exam I've PASSED since I took the boards back in '81!

George Carlin is a hoot....:rotfl:

Specializes in Hemodialysis, Home Health.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!

So very happy for you, Zee ! Big hugs and congrats from ALL of us! wave.gif

And you too, Case Mgr.1 !!! ;)

Specializes in LTC, ER, ICU,.

zee, congratulations!

Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.
Originally posted by jnette

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!

So very happy for you, Zee ! Big hugs and congrats from ALL of us! wave.gif

And you too, Case Mgr.1 !!! ;)

Thank you, jnette:kiss

Specializes in Hospice, Critical Care.

Congratulations, Csemgr1,CCM!! What a great feeling, eh? Did you plenty of accolades at work?! What a relief to be done...and best of all, passed! Great work, Csemgr.

Does it help you in your position? (CCRN does *nothing* for me at work besides get me plenty of pats on the back...but I did it just for my own satisfaction so I didn't expect anything from that quarter.)

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