How do you feel on displaying your certification credentials on your badge?

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Nurses, How do you feel on displaying certification credentials on your badge or nurses who displays them on their id/work badge? I am proud of them because they were a lot of hard work and time but I also do not want to seem like a show-off.

Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology RN.
1 hour ago, Divine-LPN,BSN said:

I'm proud and satisfied with my credentials. It wasn't a waste for me. I can earn a high salary and work anywhere with my degree and nursing license combined. The earning potential and opportunities are so vast that I am back in college working on a graduate degree. There are many misconceptions about my nursing license. For any additional information regarding my credentials feel free to read content in my profile.

Kindly,

Divine-LPN, BSN

Well as long as in your job role you dont practice any skills outside of the LPN scope I guess it doesnt matter.

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Specializes in BSN, RN-BC, NREMT, EMT-P, TCRN.

You should ABSOLUTELY wear your credentials! It shows acheivement, enhanced professionalism and expertise. It causes other nurses to inquire.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
On 9/13/2019 at 5:14 AM, Rose_Queen said:

There’s an entire thread dedicated to that somewhere.

Just found it and read it. I left the thread even more confused than when I started it. I just don't understand.

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Specializes in ICU.

I have a board certification that I will probably let expire. But no hospital has let me put it on a badge. Personally, I think CCRN, CEN, PCCN, etc. should be permitted. You earned it. However, I've also seen people go overboard with it. I worked with a woman who used to answer the unit phone "Jane Doe, BSN, RN, CCRN." She said all the letters. I laughed every time she did it.

One more funny (at least I thought it was funny):

The lab at a hospital i worked at got in trouble with their accrediting board because they were releasing critical lab values to staff members without verifying who they were talking to. Criticals were to be given to RNs. So the lab blamed the trauma unit for not telling them who they were. This was all part of an ongoing feud between lab and the trauma unit. We were told we had to start answering the phones by giving our first and last names and our title. All because lab didn't ask before. We had people really dragging out the phone introductions ?

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Specializes in BSN, RN-BC, NREMT, EMT-P, TCRN.
26 minutes ago, klone said:

Just found it and read it. I left the thread even more confused than when I started it. I just don't understand.

What's confusing?

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
3 hours ago, tacticool said:

What's confusing?

Why someone would go through and complete a BSN program, and not sit for the NCLEX.

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Specializes in BSN, RN-BC, NREMT, EMT-P, TCRN.

That relates to credentials? Didn't see that.

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28 minutes ago, tacticool said:

That relates to credentials? Didn't see that.

You missed part of the conversation.

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4 hours ago, klone said:

Just found it and read it. I left the thread even more confused than when I started it. I just don't understand.

You are not alone in this.

Oh, and as for the original question I tend to agree that the alphabet soup is for other nurses and not our patients. But that's one nurse's opinion ?

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Specializes in Psych.

While I don't have any at the moment I would put on one or two that I think are important. For example I would put RN-BC or CCRN. I wouldn't want to put every single one though, but it's all preference I would assume.

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology RN.
1 hour ago, klone said:

Why someone would go through and complete a BSN program, and not sit for the NCLEX.

Maybe they couldnt pass?

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Specializes in BSN, RN-BC, NREMT, EMT-P, TCRN.

Great question!

38 minutes ago, The0Walrus said:

While I don't have any at the moment I would put on one or two that I think are important. For example I would put RN-BC or CCRN. I wouldn't want to put every single one though, but it's all preference I would assume.

I leave out the EMS soup. Just BSN, RN,-BC, TCRN on my badge.

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