1. Are you Ready for the Certification Challenge?
Submitted by
Elizabeth A. Coyne RN, MSN,CRNP
Nancy DuBois CRNI, MSN
Lisa Caple Nurse Extern

2. Are you Ready for the Certification Challenge?

3. What is Certification? Certification: Is the formal recognition of the
specialized knowledge, skills and
experience demonstrated by the
achievement of standards identified
by a nursing specialty to promote
optimal health outcomes.

4. Being a Certified Nurse Personally:
Enhances your feelings of personal
accomplishments
Provides personal satisfaction
Provides a professional challenge
Enhances your professional
credibility

5. Being a Certified Nurse Professionally:
Provides evidence of your professional
commitment
Indicates your professional growth
Validates your specialized knowledge
Indicates attainment of a practice standard

6. Being a Certified Nurse Professionally:
Enhances personal confidence in your
clinical abilities
Provides evidence of accountability
Indicates your level of clinical
competence
Enhances your professional Autonomy
Promotes recognition from your peers

7. Being a Certified Nurse Professionally:
Increases your marketability
Promotes recognition from other health
care professionals
Promotes recognition from employers
Increases Consumer Confidence
Some hospitals increase your salary
or offers you bonuses

8. Benefits of Certification to your Employer -
It is a strong statement to the public that your staff is certified
Nurses who are certified were found to have:
A higher self esteem
Opportunities for professional growth.
What to know the latest information in health care
Take pride in the care they deliver.
This is an asset to the institution in which
they are employed

9. Benefits of Certification – To the Consumer
Provides the patient, family and extended
family the knowledge that one’s health
care provider is competent and responsible.
This translates into a stronger belief in the
ability of the nurse and credibility of the
institution