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I need to take a certification by November. I'm a post partum/mother baby nurse who also works in our level 2 nursery. I have no experience in labor. I'm not sure which certification to do. Any suggestions?

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

I would probably do either low-risk neonatal or maternal-newborn.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Postpartum.

I'm a postpartum (mother/baby) nurse. My unit paid for my NRP cert. It's also now required to have ACLS, which I had already obtained on my previous critical care unit. Some of the nurses who solely work in the nursery also got their STABLE cert.

Did your unit not go over the required certs that must be obtained within a certain amount of time?

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I'm going to assume you are talking about NCC, and I would say maternal-newborn is probably your best choice.

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Specializes in OB, Postpartum, Nursery.

And NCC means?

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Um, National Certification Corporation, I believe. It's the one that gives certifications to OB nurses. As opposed to the ANCC, which no longer does.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Postpartum.

You have to have a certain amount of hours before qualifying to take it. If you have been in the specialty for about 2 years, the RNC-MNN (Maternal Newborn Nursing) cert is the route you would go, if you are talking about putting some letters after your name. Several of my coworkers have it; plan on taking it myself down the road. It's more expensive than the NCLEX, so I want to pass it the first time.

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