Top 5 Advanced Nursing Certification Courses

The special nursing certification is a process of building multi-layered path in nursing career. The basic nursing certificate is issued by the college from where one has completed graduation. Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) is basically two-year degree course. Registered nurses normally have Bachelor’s or Associates degree. After completion of bachelor’s degree, one can go further for the course, “Master of Science in Nursing” (MSN). After completion of academic course in nursing, numbers of advanced specialist courses are also available to make one’s career brighter in the field of nursing.  The following are such specialist courses.

Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN)
Certificate of this course can be achieved by qualifying the exam conducted by most of the major and famous hospitals. The duration this certificate course is of six-months, where everything from cardio care technique to technique of detecting the drug reactions is covered. Holder of this certificate course is mainly concerned with the job concerned with Intensive Care Unit, Critical Care Unit or telemetry where constant monitoring is needed. Salaries are also quite higher as compared to other floors and the nurses in this floor have observe few patients only because constant monitoring is needed their. 

CDE (Certified Diabetes Educator)
This certified course is always in demand in most of the hospital and in the offices of doctors. Now a day’s, increase in diabetic and obesity patients have enhanced the scope of this course and also increased the opportunity of employment with this course. The main task of the workers related to this course, is to teach Diabetic patients, how to control their diet? How to inject insulin, and also how to test sugar level in blood?

ACRN - HIV/AIDS Certified Nurse
Another certification course having sadly good scope, because of dramatic increase in the patients of AIDS that is ACRN-HIV/AIDS Certified Nursing course. The nurses belonging to this course have to study about HIV/AIDS.  They have to study symptoms of disease, immunology and also have to deal with some sensitive classes that are concerned with both “Intra Venus” drug users and homosexual class. After completion of this course nurse can work in hospital or some special clinics that that are dealing with AIDS prevention and treatment program
    
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)
This is one of the difficult certification courses in the field of nursing but this course is more profitable one as compared to other courses. The Nurses completing these courses have to deal with the Anesthesia given to patient during any surgery. The duration of this course is two years and require apprentice of two years. After completion of this course, a nurse will get handsome amount of salary.

Oncology Certificate in Nursing (OCN)
The nurses belong to Oncology have to deal with radiation aftercare, chemotherapy and patients of cancer. This worthwhile certified course is completed with ability of working in hospital, local clinics or the centers for cancer treatment. The duty of these nurses is of long duration but less physical work.
Any of the above given certification course is available in major health care schools in city, which will help you to get higher pay in any hospital and also provide various future opportunities

-Bruno Auger