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About CNOR Certification |
CNOR Certification Requirements
Becoming a credentialed professional confirms that you are familiar with the scope of practice of providing care to patients before, during, and after surgery. Certification is an indicator of a higher standard and practice within the nursing profession and a mark of personal achievement.
- Requirements: two years and 2400 hours as an operating room nurse.
- Certification period: lasts for five years.
- No BSN required.
Objectives of CNOR certification:
- Recognize the individual registered nurse who is proficient in practice.
- Strengthen conscious use of theory in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care.
- Enhance professional growth through continued learning that results in broader knowledge and expanded skills.
Purposes of CNOR certification:
- Demonstrate concern for accountability to the general public for nursing practice.
- Enhance quality patient care.
- Identify registered nurses who have demonstrated professional achievement in providing surgical nursing care.
- Provide employing agencies with a means of identifying an operating room nurse's professional achievement
- Give the nurse personal satisfaction.
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