The Vital Role of Professional Certification

Schmal, Barbara A.; Derrevere, Shiela Kay

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“… increased patient confidence in nursing care; greater respect and recognition from the employer, nursing peers, and other health care professionals; the ability to expand professional responsibilities; greater earning potential and professional advancement opportunities; reimbursement for the certification examination; and increased collaborative practice …”

Section: Personal and Professional Rewardsmentioning

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The Meaning and Value of Certification

Dunn¹

2019

AORN Journal

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Section: Personal and Professional Rewardsmentioning

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“…• decreased pressure injuries and improved accuracy in pressure injury staging, 20,21 • earlier intervention for the initiation of rescue of a failing patient, [22][23][24][25] • improved patient outcomes, 15,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32] • decreased mortality rates (unique to certified OR nurses), 22,33 and…”

Section: Quality Of Carementioning

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The Meaning and Value of Certification

Dunn¹

2019

AORN Journal

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“…Certification may be desirable when hiring a potential employee as it demonstrates that the employee has already achieved a proven knowledge base. For the profession, certification may be very important, as it is associated with nurses who stay actively engaged in clinical practice (Schmal & Derrevere, 2012). For the profession, certification may be very important, as it is associated with nurses who stay actively engaged in clinical practice (Schmal & Derrevere, 2012).…”

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“…Certification usually is a voluntary process (Schmal & Derrevere, 2012), and the benefits to the certified nurse should not be overlooked. Those include increased personal confidence, enhanced job satisfaction, autonomy, credibility, empowerment, and accountability (Schmal & Derrevere, 2012;Watts, 2010).…”

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“…Certification has become a comparable benchmark for institutions to demonstrate competence and expertise within professional staff (Boyle, Gajewski, & Miller, 2012;Schmal & Derrevere, 2012), and surveyors for both of those organizations consider the total number and percentage of certified nurses in their decision making (ONCC, 2013). Certification has become a comparable benchmark for institutions to demonstrate competence and expertise within professional staff (Boyle, Gajewski, & Miller, 2012;Schmal & Derrevere, 2012), and surveyors for both of those organizations consider the total number and percentage of certified nurses in their decision making (ONCC, 2013).…”

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Increasing Certification Through Unit-Based Education

Fischer-Cartlidge

Mahon

2014

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing

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Certification has been identified by multiple organizations as an important component and means of elevating the level of nursing care provided to patients and demonstrating to the public that the nursing staff has subspecialty knowledge. Certification may lead to improved patient satisfaction and outcomes as well as increased nurse satisfaction and retention. Despite the known potential benefits associated with certification, institutions struggle to improve certification rates. One possible method to overcome system barriers to certification is the implementation of a unit-based study course to prepare nurses for the Certified Breast Care Nurse (CBCN) examination. Data collected by an author-developed tool as one institution created and executed a unit-based study course suggest that such an approach increased certification rates and improved disease-specific knowledge and confidence among the staff, despite no official data existing on the tool's reliability and validity. Implementation of similar programs may be successful in improving certification at other institutions seeking to raise certification rates.

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Midwifing the End of Life: Expanding the Scope of Modern Midwifery Practice to Reclaim Palliative Care

Hoover¹,

Holt²

2016

J Midwife Womens Health

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Historically, midwives held an important role in society as cradle-to-grave practitioners who eased individuals, families, and communities through difficult transitions across the life span. In the United States, during the first half of the 20th century, physicians assumed care for people during birth and death, moving these elements of the human experience from homes into the hospital setting. These changes in practice resulted in a dehumanization of birth and death experiences and led to detachment from what it means to be human among members of society. There is a current movement across the United States to incorporate palliative care and hospice care into both the home setting and the inpatient setting. Through their education and training, certified nurse-midwives/certified midwives (CNMs/CMs) are well equipped to serve as hospice and palliative care clinicians. Current midwives, skilled in assisting women and families through the transition of pregnancy to motherhood, can use their education and skills to help individuals and their families through the transition from life to death. The similarities between these states of the human experience (pregnancy to birth and terminal illness to death) allow for a fluidity between these experiences from the midwife perspective. The many parallels between these 2 elements of the human condition include stress, anxiety, and pain. Training in holistic approaches to symptom management and supporting individuals through difficult experiences (eg, birth) gives midwives a unique perspective that is readily translatable to assist individuals and families through the passage between life and death.

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The Vital Role of Professional Certification

Cited by 4 publications

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The Meaning and Value of Certification

The Meaning and Value of Certification

Increasing Certification Through Unit-Based Education

Midwifing the End of Life: Expanding the Scope of Modern Midwifery Practice to Reclaim Palliative Care

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