AACN Membership/CCRN

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Specializes in Cardiac.

Any reason to maintain AACN membership or keep up with CCRN and other certs as an SRNA/CRNA?

Specializes in critcal care, CRNA.
Any reason to maintain AACN membership or keep up with CCRN and other certs as an SRNA/CRNA?

The prestige of having extra initials. Everyone I work with have let their CCRN expire.

Specializes in SICU / Transport / Hyperbaric.

I wouldn't think so, unless you are one of those credential junkies that has everything possible listed behind their name. Just my opinion.

Specializes in ED, trauma.

Maybe for the alphabet soup at the end of your name?

Nope.

One of my instructors said it best; by the time you've graduated, you're a master at all of the material on the CCRN, so there's no need to prove it once you're a CRNA.

The AACN does have an advanced critical care journal, don't they (beyond just the American Journal of Critical Care & Critical Care Nurse)? Maybe the AACN and their journals aren't necessarily for you after you are a CRNA, but then you should be doing something else to keep your practice current. Maybe an anesthesia association or journal, conferences, etc. While I think a lot of the alphabet soup stuff is dumb, I actually do have respect for the medically-oriented certifications like the CCRN. I actually have more respect for those certifications than I do for the worthless paper-writing BSN, or even worse, the MSN based in pseudo-religious mystical "energy field" theories.

Specializes in Cardiac.
The AACN does have an advanced critical care journal, don't they (beyond just the American Journal of Critical Care & Critical Care Nurse)? Maybe the AACN and their journals aren't necessarily for you after you are a CRNA, but then you should be doing something else to keep your practice current. Maybe an anesthesia association or journal, conferences, etc. While I think a lot of the alphabet soup stuff is dumb, I actually do have respect for the medically-oriented certifications like the CCRN. I actually have more respect for those certifications than I do for the worthless paper-writing BSN, or even worse, the MSN based in pseudo-religious mystical "energy field" theories.

Haha! I love this.

Thanks all. CCRN-CSC-CMC..... sorry but you are all expiring in 1.5 years.

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