BCEN National Certification Champion Award Nominations

BCEN National Certification Champion Award Nominations

BCEN’s National Certification Champion Award recognizes healthcare facilities and health systems that:  

  • Exemplify excellence in supporting emergency RNs who pursue BCEN certifications
  • Show achievement in designing effective and innovative programs supporting emergency nursing specialty certification
  • Demonstrate the impact of board certified emergency nurses on patient, nurse and organizational outcomes through data-based examples

.NEW in 2025: BCEN invites burn centers and burn center networks to apply. Nominations for the 2025 award cycle will be accepted May 2 – June 16, 2025.

Category Criteria

One winner will be recognized in each of the following categories:  

  • Small Healthcare Facility: single hospital emergency department, trauma program or freestanding emergency center with less than 30,000 visits per year, OR a single flight and/or critical care ground transport base, OR a single burn center/burn unit
  • Large Healthcare Facility: single hospital emergency department, trauma program or freestanding emergency center with more than 30,000 visits per year
  • Health System: a group or system of 2 or more of the following: hospital emergency departments, trauma programs, freestanding emergency centers, critical care ground transport and/or flight bases, OR burn centers/burn units
Eligibility Requirements  

To be eligible for the National Certification Champion Award, a facility or organization must:

  • Currently employ BCEN-certified emergency, trauma, transport and/or burn nurses
  • Be actively engaged in supporting their nurses in obtaining and maintaining one or more of BCEN’s specialty certifications, with data provided to demonstrate growth in the number of specialty certified nurses, plus practices and policies showing the facility’s or organization’s commitment to supporting specialty certification.
  • Serve as a model for advancing board certification for the nursing profession

*Please note that “organization” is a catch-all term covering facility, program, center, base, system, etc. throughout any references to this award. 

 

Nominations for the 2025 NCC Award will open on May 2, 2025.