Awards & Scholarships

Distinguished CEN Award

• Awarded at Emergency Nursing Conference (ENA)
• Call for Awards are released in June of each calendar year

• 2018 Winner
  

  Wilmar Flores

  BSN, RN, CEN Chula Vista, CA

  About Wilmar
  Wilmar has been certified for 10 years. When he became an assistant nurse manager in the ED, he demonstrated support for certification that included securing financial assistance for nurses pursuing specialty certification, flexible scheduling, and a resource library of preparation materials along with review courses. In recognition of their success in achieving their certifications, Wilmar created a wall of distinction. With his efforts, 10 nurses have successfully passed the CEN exam with another 10+ anticipated to be testing in the near future.

  

• Previous Winners

  2017
  Kathy Ingersoll, BSN, RN, CEN
  Richmond, VA

  2016
  Kara Bauman, MN, RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN
  Fairfax, VA

  2015
  Diane Branson, RN, CEN, OR-SANE-A
  Albany, OR

Distinguished CPEN Award

• Awarded at Emergency Nursing Conference (ENA)
• Call for Awards are released in June of each calendar year

• 2017 Winner
  

  Jodi Cregger

  RN, MICT, CEN, CFRN, CPEN Great Bend, KS

  About Jodi
  Jodi Cregger is a champion for excellence in the care and transport of pediatric patients.  Outside of her exemplary skills as a caregiver, Jodi is persistent in her encouragement of her peers to attain certification in an emergency nursing field. Ms. Cregger works as both a flight nurse and educator for LifeTeam Critical Care Transport and is a champion for outstanding education services.

  She is insightful as to the process involved in preparing and taking certification exams, enthusiastically promoting certification as a means of professional development. She supports her colleagues not only through the preparation and test-taking stage of the certification process but also by promoting and acknowledging those with whom she works once they have attained their goals. Jodi has been instrumental in securing the support necessary from her employer to promote certification from within the organization for which she works.

  Ms. Jodi Cregger is an admirable role model for those who wish to attain certification and provide skilled pediatric care. Her dedication to education, promotion, and completion of becoming certified in pediatrics or any of the available fields of emergency nursing is unwavering.

• Previous Winners

  2016
  Brian Johnson, RN, CEN, CPEN
  Walnut Creek, CA

  2015
  Kristen Cline, BSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, SANE-A
  Sioux Falls, SD

Distinguished CFRN/CTRN Award

• Awarded at CCTMC Conference (Critical Care Transport Medical Conference)
• Call for Awards are released in January of each calendar year

• 2018 Winner
  

  Teresa Elder

  MEd, BSN, RN, CFRN Denver, CO

  About Teresa
  Theresa has served as a primary nurse in rotor wing, fixed wing and critical care ground vehicles caring for critically ill and injured patients for over 23 years. She is a long-standing advocate for the CFRN certification and has worked many hours to ensure that the flight nurses are well-prepared for the exam and recognized for passing it. Her extraordinary work in support of specialty certification, including designing a CFRN exam preparation program with a 100 percent pass rate, is elevating patient care and safety and empowering nurses who work in the dynamic environment of critical care transport.

  

• Previous Winners

  2017
  Bambi Pish-Derr, DNP, CFRN, CCRN
  Mesa, AZ

  2016
  Kimberly Lacina, MSN, ARNP-C, CTRN, CEN, EMT-P
  Palm Harbor, FL

  2015
  Mick McCallum, TNS, RN, CFRN, CCRN, EMT-P, FP-C, CMTE
  Topeka, KS

Distinguished TCRN Award

• Awarded at Society of Trauma Nurses TraumaCon
• Call for Awards are released in January of each calendar year

• 2018 Winner
  

  June Guadalupe

  MSN, BSN, RN, CEN, CCRN, CMC, CNRN, TCRN Owings Mills, MD

  About June
  June, who was among the first in the nation to earn the TCRN when it was launched by BCEN in 2016, used his success to create a path to TCRN certification for dozens of nurses in Shock Trauma and the Emergency Department at the University of Maryland Medical Center. In collaboration with administrators and nurse colleagues, he developed and helped deliver educational resources – including a comprehensive TCRN review course whose participants have a greater than 90 percent pass rate on the exam, and removed common barriers to certification by addressing typical test-taking fears and gaining administrative approval to offer the review course for free.

  

• Previous Winners

  2017
  Andrea Wright, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN
  Roanoke, VA

Honorary Certification Recognition Award (for Health Systems, Large and Small Organizations)

• Awarded at Emergency Nursing Conference (ENA)
• Call for Awards are released in June of each calendar year

Health Systems

• 2018 Winner
  

  UCHealth Emergency Care

  Fort Collins, CO

  About UCHealth Emergency Care
  UCHealth is four emergency departments in the Fort Collins, CO region. UCHealth demonstrates support for specialty certification with financial support for up to 2 specialty certifications and renewals for nurses, a long list of review resources for preparation and recertification, and public and monetary recognition. Above all, each nurse receives a 24K gold stethoscope once they are certified!

  UCHealth is currently enjoying a 42% certification rate!

  

Large Health Care Facility

• 2018 Winner
  

  Chilton Medical Center

  Pompton Plains, NJ

  About Chilton Medical Center
  Chilton’s leadership believed that certified nurses enhance patient care and enjoy professional satisfaction and worked diligently to promote and increase certification in their facility. They identified perceived barriers to certification and sought to ease those barriers. Chilton demonstrates creative and amazing support for their certified nurses by seeking out grant funds to remove financial barriers, offering review courses and study materials, providing flexible scheduling and various forms of public and monetary recognition for the certified nurses. As a result, Chilton has increased their certification rate from 25% to  43% this year!

  

  

• Previous Winners

  2017
  Houston Methodist Hospital System 
  Houston, TX

  2016
  Avera McKennan Hospital Emergency Department
  Sioux Falls, SD

  2015
  Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital EMTC
  Indianapolis, IN

Small Health Care Facility

• 2018 Winner
  

  USC Verdugo Hills Hospital

  Glendale, CA

  About USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
  This 12-bed emergency department has increased their certified nurses from 2 to 8, with 4 more in the bullpen. Verdugo Hills demonstrates support of specialty certification by providing review courses and study materials, along with flexibility with scheduling. Group study is encouraged with a dedicated space to include the ability to video conference. Verdugo Hills participated in and won the Greater Los Angeles Chapter ENA, CEN Olympics! They round this out with public and monetary recognition for the certified nurses. Way to go Verdugo Hills!

  
  

• Previous Winners

  2017
  Bristol Hospital
  Bristol, CT

  2016
  Angel MedFlight
  Scottsdale, AZ

  2015
  IU Health Saxony Hospital Emergency Department
  Fishers, IN