Certification for Nurses Across the Emergency Spectrum
Advance Your Career with Nationally Recognized Nursing Certifications
BCEN provides ABSNC-accredited nursing certifications to empower adult and pediatric emergency, flight, critical care ground transport, trauma, and burn nurses, and improve patient care.
Nursing Certifications
Choose Your Certification
Find board certifications that reflect your expertise and help you move toward the roles and opportunities you want next.
Certified Emergency Nurse
The Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN®) is the cornerstone credential for adult/mixed emergency care and ED nursing excellence. It validates the broad clinical judgment RNs need to treat any patient who walks through the door and supports long-term professional growth across the full emergency spectrum.
Certified Flight Registered Nurse
Earning the Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN®) prepares a flight nurse for the complexities of delivering care in flight, whether they are responding to the scene of an accident, a natural disaster, or an inter-facility transfer.
Certified Transport Registered Nurse
Designed for the demands of critical care ground transport, the Certified Transport Registered Nurse (CTRN®) recognizes the skill it takes to care for patients in unpredictable environments, often providing essential support when air transport is not an option.
Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse
From neonatal and infant care all the way through childhood and adolescence, the Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse (CPEN®) prepares RNs to handle pediatric emergencies for every age and stage with expertise and confidence.
Trauma Certified Registered Nurse
Built for trauma nurses providing injury prevention education, prehospital care, acute care, rehabilitation and reintegration into society, the Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (TCRN®) validates mastery across the trauma care continuum.
Certified Burn Registered Nurse
The Certified Burn Registered Nurse (CBRN®) validates advanced knowledge and expertise across burn care, including initial management, critical and acute care, patient and family support, and recovery and rehabilitation.
The CEN®, CFRN®, CPEN®, CTRN®, TCRN®, and CBRN® certification programs are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Specialty Nursing Certification (ABSNC) and Magnet-accepted.
Why Certification for Nurses Matters
You have the skills and competence. Certification helps you put it on record.
Patients, providers, and communities rely on emergency, trauma, transport, and burn nurses to act with skill, precision, and up-to-date clinical knowledge. Specialty certification helps affirm that readiness, and many emergency nurse leaders look for it when building confident, capable teams.
of leaders say it matters to have Certified Emergency Nurses (CENs) in their organization.
view the CEN as an asset to the emergency nursing profession.
emphasize the importance of maintaining certification over time.
I have been certified since my first year working in the ER.
I have always believed that board certification signifies a level of professionalism and excellence that says to the world, and to myself, that I am dedicated to my profession—but more importantly, I am dedicated to my patients.
A Supportive Path to Certification, No Matter Where You Are In Your Journey
Start Your Path to Certification
Interested in how to become a certified emergency nurse? Our Candidate Experience Specialists are available during business hours and ready to help every step of the way.
Get Recertified
Keep your knowledge current and strengthen the expertise you already rely on—renew your credential by exam or CE attestation.
Certify Your Team
Support your nurses as they grow, expand their skills, and deliver consistent, high-quality care.
Invest in Your Profession, Invest in Yourself
Certification takes real commitment, and the nurses who pursue it on their own often discover it becomes one of the most valuable steps in their careers.
BCEN Learn
Support Your Career Growth With Continuing Education Courses
BCEN Learn helps you prepare for your certification and earn CE credits with courses built for your specialty. You can learn at home or study on-the-go through a state of the art learning tool built to elevate your expertise.
Helping Nurses Achieve Life-Long Excellence
At BCEN, the why behind what we do is as important as what we do.
Nurses who hold a BCEN certification feel a sense of pride, honor and fulfillment in their calling, which results in better-functioning, highly efficient emergency departments, burn units, transport and trauma programs and, most importantly, better outcomes for patients.
BCEN Updates
Raising the Bar for Emergency Nursing
BCEN continually updates exams, education, resources, and recognition programs so you always know what is new and relevant in emergency nursing.
Take the Next Step Toward Certification
You have the skill. You have the experience. We offer the resources that help you take the next step with clarity.