The VALUE OF CGRN Certification
For registered GI nurses
Achieving the Certified Gastroenterology Registered Nurse credential demonstrates your commitment to the gastroenterology and endoscopy nursing specialty and nursing profession, while validating your knowledge and ultimately helping to improve patient care.
With CGRN certification, you can:
- Expand your role in providing patient services
- Demonstrate your commitment to your profession
- Improve patient care
- Achieve greater satisfaction in your chosen profession
- Accelerate career growth
Through improved performance, GI nursing professionals with CGRN certification are positioned for accelerated career growth and a greater role within their unit, clinic or facility.
For gastroenterology and endoscopy nurses, CGRN certification validates the skills and competencies that help them improve the quality of patient care and delivery of services, while increasing confidence, decision making skills, job satisfaction and advancement opportunities.
Facilities and healthcare systems that encourage certification:
- Recruit and Retain the Best: Institutions and facilities that promote certification through higher salaries, bonuses or other incentives will have an easier time recruiting the most qualified nurses. Once recruited, these nurses will also stay in their jobs longer. Nursing research studies show that certified nurses enjoy greater job satisfaction, which leads to better retention rates for their employers.
- Promote Superior Care to Patients: Advances in technology have led to a much more savvy patient population. The public understands the value of certification and is more likely to choose a facility with more qualified nurses. CGRN-certified nurses also support your facility's application for the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet Recognition Program, a globally recognized designation of excellence in health care.
- Strengthen Their Reputation: Advances in technology have led to a much more savvy patient population. The public understands the value of certification and is more likely to choose a facility with more qualified nurses.
- Support Continuous Education: Institutions and facilities that support certification will be seen as dedicated to superior patient care. Passing the CGRN exam is just the first step; nurses must then maintain their certification through continuing growth in the specialized field of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy through a variety of educational and practice opportunities.
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