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?

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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.

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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.

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Specializes in ED, trauma.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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