Emergency Care Nurses: Certification, Empowerment, and Work-Related Variables

Kangaroo Care Education Effects on Nurses' Knowledge and Skills Confidence

“…Another benefit of certification is the empowerment of nurses. Board-certified emergency department nurses felt more empowered and powerful than nurses who were not board certified (Fitzpatrick, Campo, & Gacki-Smith, 2014). Perinatal nurses who held any national certification in perinatal care, such as Fetal Monitoring, Inpatient Obstetric, Neonatal Care, Maternal Newborn, Lamaze Childbirth Education, or Breastfeeding, had higher empowerment scores than noncertified nurses (Samedy, Quinn Griffin, Leask Capitulo, & Fitzpatrick, 2012).…”

The Meaning and Value of Certification

“…• increased feelings of empowerment, 24,27,30,31,[39][40][41] commitment, 8 professionalism 42 (ie, self-regulation, selfdetermination, independence); and…”

“… an enhanced sense of personal accomplishment and satisfaction; knowledge validation; increased feelings of empowerment, commitment, professionalism (ie, self‐regulation, self‐determination, independence); and improved levels of competence …”

AORN Position Statement on Perioperative Nursing Certification

“…As early as 2003, the case was clearly made for the value of certification in nursing 3 . A study by Fitzpatrick et al affirmed that certified RNs report higher levels of empowerment than do non‐certified RNs 4 . A 2012 study stated that RN leaders should be “.…”