Critical care staff nurses: empowerment, certification, and intent to leave. Crit Care Nurse. Does certification of staff nurses improve patient outcomes? Evid Based Nurs. Nursing specialty certification and nursing-sensitive patient outcomes in the intensive care unit. Am J Crit Care. Wilkerson BL. Specialty nurse certification affects patient outcomes. Plast Surg Nurs. Differences in perceptions of empowerment among nationally certified and noncertified nurses.
J Nurs Adm. All rights reserved. Membership is free and comes with many benefits. Note: You must also be a member and log in to purchase articles. Share This. They also noted that because of the expectations for re-certification, they stayed current in their specialty areas in ways that other nurses did not. The research does tell us that patient outcomes improve when a high percentage of nurses working on a unit are certified.
For organizations, having certified nurses means a stronger probability that evidence will be moved into practice more quickly. They are also more engaged in their work because they have genuine interest in learning more about their specialty areas. This power over practice and having a strong purpose is also known to promote staff resiliency. And yet we know in nursing as in life, we define what is important to us by how we spend our time and money. For example, patient injuries due to falls, hospital-acquired pressure injuries, and hospital-acquired infections decrease when facilities hire certified nurses.
Another particular benefit is the decreased rate of failure to rescue. Failure to rescue refers to when an otherwise healthy patient is hospitalized and suffers an adverse event. Think about the healthy patient going in for a simple procedure who then has a bad outcome. While more in-depth studies are needed , literature supports the benefits of nurses investing in a nursing certification. Ummm, see benefits to patients. Considering the various strains to facilities, poor patient outcomes probably cause the most tension.
Hospital-acquired infections and injuries are costly to facilities. Nurses who feel incompetent and unqualified to care for patients are likely to experience higher rates of burnout , fueling adverse events. A facility making an investment in the education of nurses invests in the sustainability of the facility itself and the community it serves. There are many reasons I chose to become certified. There are many other bonuses to obtaining and maintaining a certification.
From increased knowledge to increased confidence to career advancement. It is so easy when you start practicing to mirror your practice off of what other nurses say and do, and many times this is not rooted in evidence-based practice.
Studying for the maternal newborn nursing certification challenged my everyday practice and the information I was regularly providing to patients. I became independently knowledgeable about conditions, maternal and newborn physiology, and best practice. A certified nurse is a lifelong learner who cares about the quality of care they deliver. Nurses who are certified feel more confident that the care they are delivering is based on the most up-to-date evidence. Certified nurses are proud of their achievement and are role models for nurses and other health care professionals.
Certification shows that nursing is a profession that cares about safety, quality, and excellence of health care delivery. Board certification means that certification is required for licensure, such as in the example of advanced practice registered nurses APRN.
In this case, a board of experts at the state level in the field of nursing examines the credentials and qualifications of a nurse in order to determine eligibility for licensure. Certification in a specialty indicates that a nurse has acquired additional knowledge, skills, and expertise in a specialty area of nursing such as acute and critical care. Preparation for certification requires that the nurse meet the eligibility requirements such as gaining experience in providing direct care for a required period of time for the relevant patient population.
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