March 19th - National Certification Day - Share your Story!

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

March 19th is Nurses Certification Day - a time to celebrate YOUR certification. What certifications do you have? Are they part of your current job? Do you keep certifications from old jobs?

AACN (where many nurses earn their certifications) celebrates with this press release, congratulating all certified nurses.

So, back to YOU - did your job encourage certification?

Please share what makes you proud to be a certified nurse......and congratulations to all our certified nurses.

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Specializes in Critical Care and ED.

I have the CDN certification (Certified Dialysis Nurse) but I will probably have to abandon that this year as I no longer do dialysis and don't have enough hours in that specialty. I also have my CCRN which I do maintain as I work in an ICU per diem and I am in the acute track of the APRN program so I want to hold onto that one. I also have Epic certification as I work in informatics so I'll keep that one until I graduate and become an APRN. It won't be needed after I graduate.

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Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.

Certified School Nurse and looking at becoming certified in ambulatory care because, although my district didn't acknowledge my certification with a bonus, I know that other businesses and organizations do.

The person who was most impressed by my passing the NCSN (besides myself) was the principal. Educators like certifications. They know what that means.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

I have three certifications. ANCC in Pediatric Nursing. CCRN (Peds) and Certified Nurse Educator.

I will likely have to drop the two peds certs as I am no longer working in a patient care capacity. Which is sad, because the CCRN is the one I am most proud of.

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I have three certifications. ANCC in Pediatric Nursing. CCRN (Peds) and Certified Nurse Educator.

I will likely have to drop the two peds certs as I am no longer working in a patient care capacity. Which is sad, because the CCRN is the one I am most proud of.

Have you looked into the CCRN-K?

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
Have you looked into the CCRN-K?

I have, just not sure at this point how much money I want to spend renewing all of these things.

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Specializes in Geriatrics w/rehab, LTC, hospice patient.

Oh wow you're all incredible

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

Orthopedic certified nurse. We have certification as a requirement to climb clinical ladder. It really helps. The CE hours are usually really interesting too: dealing with chronic pain, alternative approaches to pain management. dealing with the geriatric population as they are a large part of our population (hip fx).

I am preparing to sit for for my CDE (diabetes educator). I get frustrated at the lack of knowledge of nurses and providers regarding diabetes. We see many diabetic pts with with amputations. I also have 2 children with Type 1 diabetes and it seems NO one knows about T1.

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Specializes in NICU.

I have Neonatal NCC,and IBCLC,I am probably going to drop one not worth the cost to keep it up.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

ANCC certification in Psych-Mental Health Nursing. I did it to make myself more competitive in the job market (ADN arriving in California). And also because I enjoy psych nursing and want to keep developing my knowledge base.

I'm rather proud of it. It doesn't make me any better than my non-certified coworkers, and that's something I have to remind patients about when they see the name tag and remark about my being certified (they go on with "oh, so you must know more/be a better nurse/etc." I set them straight). But it's both a professional and a personal accomplishment.

I maintain my certification because I never want to take that **** certification test ever again. I'd rather do the 150 CEUs every 5 years, thank you :)

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Specializes in Hematology-oncology.

I have the med-surg certification from ANCC. I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to renew that cert, become an Oncology Certified nurse instead, or opt to have both. Time will tell!

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I wanted to get the Advanced Public Health Nurse - Board Certified (APHN-BC) certification, but they retired it before I could finish graduate school and be eligible. So I have nothing. I'll look at other public health certifications (CPH, CHES) in time, but now there are no nursing-specific ones that exist to get anymore, which is sad.

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