Written by one of the world’s leading burn nurses, this “Specialty Spotlight” column describes burn nursing roles and settings across the patient care and recovery continuum, the challenges burn nurses face, how to advance your career as a burn nurse, and ways to connect with burn nurse colleagues.
This review article traces the path taken from the American Nurses Association recognition of burn nursing as a specialty to the collaboration between BCEN and the American Burn Association on the initial development of the Certified Burn Registered Nurse (CBRN). Research literature describing the value of specialty certification is outlined, “providing an overview for the impact of burn nursing certification on professional development, nurse satisfaction and patient outcomes.” BCEN’s inaugural CBRN Exam Construction and Review Committee Chair, and one of the world’s leading burn nursing experts, Gretchen Carrougher, is among the article’s co-authors.
Responses and comments from nearly 1,000 flight nurses to the first-ever CFRN value of certification survey are featured in this Air Medical Journal original research article. Read which value of certification categories flight nurses most associate with the CFRN, and why nurses choose to earn the CFRN. Workplace and patient demographics, flight nursing experience, transport mode type, CAMTS accreditation, and comments on flight nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic are also highlighted.
The CFRN value of certification research is a companion to The 2022 Certified Transport Registered Nurse Pulse Survey, which focused on critical care ground transport nursing.
On the Cover: BCEN 2023 Distinguished CFRN Stacey Dock, with LifeFlight Eagle. More CFRN 30th anniversary images and history appear on the inside cover. View here.
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International Society for Burns Injuries (ISBI) Nursing Committee member and South Carolina Burn Center at Medical University of South Carolina Burn Program Manager Katie Hollowed, MSN, RN, updates the global burn care community on CBRN certification milestones.
The Johns Hopkins Burn Center Burn Program Coordinator Emily Werthman, MSN, RN, and BCEN Director of Certification and Accreditation, Amy Grand, MSN, RN, provide important updates about the CBRN certification program and the significance of BCEN’s Burn Nursing Role Delineation Study.
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Based on a first-of-its-kind survey of RNs who hold BCEN’s CTRN ground transport nursing credential, this article features information about respondents’ ground transport experience and workplaces and highlights the value of certification categories they most associate with the CTRN. The article also summarizes CTRNs’ responses to questions about CAMTS accreditation, their ground transport nursing experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their reasons for earning the CTRN.
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The roles and contributions of CTRN-certified nurses in the critical care ground transport environment are described in this feature article that explains key updates to the critical care ground transport nursing body of knowledge and CTRN exam content outline and includes a patient case report.
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Article Abstract: As part of the 2019 Emergency/Trauma/Transport Nursing Workforce Survey, nurses practicing across the emergency spectrum described their biggest challenges and recounted examples of when they or an emergency, trauma or transport nurse colleague made an important impact on a human, medical or operational outcome. This article presents 10 top themes from the impact and challenges data, features verbatim open-ended responses, and highlights select quantitative data from this expansive, first ever research.
This APEX Award-winning, open-access original research article highlights the major findings of the first-of-its-kind 2019 Emergency/Trauma/Transport Nursing Workforce Survey (ETTS). The custom-designed, 60-question survey was the centerpiece of a major research initiative to profile today’s emergency nursing workforce and identify specific resources necessary to ensure a sufficient, well-prepared and well-supported future workforce.
The expansive quantitative findings — including workforce profile and qualifications, occupational profile and work environment, nurse well-being, and career goals and nursing pipeline — are presented for the emergency nursing workforce as a whole, along with select data about the emergency, trauma and transport specialties.
The research was initiated by BCEN, developed in partnership with the Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association (ASTNA), the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN), and facilitated by research project manager MedEvac Foundation International.
Volunteer exam item writers for the Certified Burn Registered Nurse (CBRN) certification meet at the first-ever CBRN Item Writer Workshop, September 2022.