You can add your credentials to your username

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You can now add your earned credentials (nursing degree, licensure, certifications) so they will be visible beside your username.

Go to your settings and click on the appropriate boxes.

P.S. What do these different colored dots by our names mean?

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Hover over the dots and they will explain themselves. Green means the person is online. Blue, brown, and grey are supposed to align with bronze, silver, and gold from before according to post count. If you are not "visible", your dot will be red instead of green, meaning you are not visible online to others.

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That may or not be the true on this site. In any case, I don’t feel it translates to the real world. In the real world, some of the most competent and most respected nurses I’ve worked with have been diploma nurses. Perhaps by default you could opt out.

I just feel that to be fair, you need to include diploma nurses for education level. It is not true that the only nurses worth mentioning have associate degrees and above. If I were a diploma RN, I would feel at least left out, if not insulted. This site is supposed to be for ALL nurses.

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

While my credentials behind my user ID are ASN, RN, EMT-P, I can't post all of my formal education as it would be ADN, BS, RN, EMT-P. The BS isn't in nursing but an allied healthcare field. It might get a bit more confusing after I finally get a BSN for it would end up being BSN, BS, RN, EMT-P. ;)

Had things gone according to plan from the beginning (rarely do plans survive reality...) my postnomials would have read (as of now): ASN, BS, RN, EMT-P, ATC. Perhaps one day I'll figure out how I can qualify to sit for the NATABOC exam and (finally) earn ATC.

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Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

What about app support for this feature?

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Hover over the dots and they will explain themselves. Green means the person is online. Blue, brown, and grey are supposed to align with bronze, silver, and gold from before according to post count. If you are not "visible", your dot will be red instead of green, meaning you are not visible online to others.

thank you.

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I just feel that to be fair, you need to include diploma nurses for education level. It is not true that the only nurses worth mentioning have associate degrees and above. If I were a diploma RN, I would feel at least left out, if not insulted. This site is supposed to be for ALL nurses.

Agree. A community is not a real community if some members are excluded.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Just to be clear, AN is for ALL nurses - we are NOT excluding anyone. Simply we are offering the option of adding your degree and credentials.

We are not saying in any way that diploma nurses are NOT nurses - please don't read that into this.

Here is our reference:

http://www.nursecredentialing.org/DisplayCredentials-Brochure.pdf

What Is the Preferred Order of Credentials?

The preferred order is:

Highest earned degree

Licensure

State designations or requirements

National certifications

Awards and honors

Other recognitions

Simply due to space constraints we can't add ALL certifications. Hope this explains it. Thanks for asking.

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
If diploma is not good enough as a level of education because it is not a degree, perhaps in fairness, education level should be left off for all. As previously stated, and believed by many, RN is enough of an identifier.

​It's sad that nurses need to be reminded that diploma grads who pass NCLEX are RNs, not "dips."

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
I just feel that to be fair, you need to include diploma nurses for education level. It is not true that the only nurses worth mentioning have associate degrees and above. If I were a diploma RN, I would feel at least left out, if not insulted. This site is supposed to be for ALL nurses.

If you're a diploma grad, then you just check "RN." I didn't use this option because my certification and nursing license level (RN) are incorporated into my user name.

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Can u add CRRN?

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Oy, AN did a nice thing and offered the OPTION of the ability to add some degree letters to their user names and STILL "we" aren't happy. "Can you add this"? "Why isn't THIS on the list"? "What about MY degree"?

Maybe just hit rewind and take it all away! If you want every degree/certification/title/award you've ever earned to show up, make it part of your user name!

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