BCEN Celebrates Certified Emergency, Transport and Trauma Nurses This Certified Nurses Day
OAK BROOK, Ill., March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the internationally celebrated Certified Nurses Day approaches (March 19), the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) has launched a Certified Nurses Day web page with nurse recognition resources plus basic information about specialty certification for patients, families and healthcare consumers. The page also features a new YouTube video with interviews with three of the more than 40,000 RNs worldwide who hold the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) credential—one of the oldest and most widely held nursing specialty credentials.
- "As BCEN celebrates the leadership, dedication to excellence, professionalism, and service of board certified nurses delivering truly exceptional care in every specialty," said BCEN CEO Janie Schumaker, MBA, BSN, RN, CEN, CENP, CPHQ, FABC, "we wanted to share why nurses working across the emergency spectrum choose to get board certified."
- Here is what several board certified emergency, transport and trauma nurses said about the importance of nursing specialty certification:
"Any specialty certification, by definition, improves patient care. - There are over 40,000 Certified Emergency Nurses (CENs), 5,400 Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurses (CPENs), 5,600 Certified Flight Registered Nurses (CFRNs), 450 Certified Transport Registered Nurses (CTRNs), and 7,200 Trauma Certified Registered Nurses (TCRNs).
- BCEN will also be introducing the world's first burn nursing certification, the Certified Burn Registered Nurse (CBRN), later this year.