Houston Healthcare Celebrates Certified Nurses Day to Honor Board Certified Nurses

Houston Healthcare and The Professional Development Council are celebrating Certified Nurses Day, March 19th by honoring our board certified nurses. The recognition is for professionalism, leadership, and commitment to excellence in patient care.

Board Certification plays an increasingly important role in the assurance of high standards of care for patients and their loved ones. Nursing, like health care in general, has become increasingly complex. While a registered nurse (RN) license provides entry to general nursing practice, the knowledge-intensive requirements of modern nursing require extensive education, as well as a strong personal commitment to excellence by each nurse. “Houston Healthcare is proud of our certified nurses,” states Mindy Hartley, Chief Nursing Officer and VP of Patient Care Services. “Seeking ones certification is a rigorous process and display, a higher level of expertise in a specific area of clinical expertise. Certification enhances our nurses personally, as well as professionally. It validates a nurse’s commitment to knowledge, skills and the nursing practice. We highly value certification and strongly encourage our nurses to seek this level of expertise. We are proud to provide professional and financial recognition on an annual basis when certification is received in ones area of expertise.”

The Professional Development Council encourages national board certification for all its nurses. Patients are encouraged to inquire whether there are certified nurses on staff when they visit a hospital or their primary care provider. There are many certification specialties such as medical-surgical, pediatric, pain management, cardiac vascular, oncology, hospice, case management, emergency nursing, critical care and many others. Many nursing certification bodies exist to serve the full range of specialized nursing care offered in the contemporary health care system; national nurse-certifying bodies should be accredited by either the Accreditation Board for Specialty Nursing Certification (ABSNC) or the National Organization for Competence Assurance (NOCA), or both.

Please join The Professional Development Council and the nation’s national nursing certification organizations in honoring those hardworking, dedicated nurses for their professionalism, and a job well done!

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