Tips from BESD: Assessing the link between certification, patient outcomes, and nursing behaviors
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, December 31, 2010
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As educators, we place great emphasis on the effect of continuing education and training and on the pursuit of specialty certification. We recognize individuals for their knowledge and skills, but it's also important to investigate whether there is a link between certification, improved job performance, and enhanced patient outcomes.
To date, most of the research on certification has focused on nurses' attitudes about the value of certification (Drenkard, 2010). However, a recent Journal of Nursing Administration (JONA) special supplement examines the issue and contains seven previously published articles that "portray the state of the science of research about nursing certification" (JONA, 2010).
Editor's note: Subscribers to Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development can read the rest of this article in the December 2010 issue.
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