10 YEARS OF PERIOPERATIVE NURSING CERTIFICATION
Abstract
Operating Room nurses are commemorating 10 years of certification with the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) Certification Program and are to be sincerely congratulated in achieving this very important milestone. Our ability to celebrate this decade of accomplishment is the result of a very dedicated group of perioperative nurses who volunteered a great deal of time to working with the CNA in order to obtain a specialty designation. They then worked on the development of the first perioperative certification exam that was offered in 1995 (496 nurses obtained the first Perioperative certification credential after this exam).
Currently, in 2005, there are 1660 Canadian nurses who proudly claim the Certified in Perioperative Nursing Canada (CPN(C)) or Certifié(e) en soins périopératoires Canada (CSP(C)) credential.
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