Objectives & Purposes of CNOR Certification

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.
• Improve nurse’s personal job satisfaction.