Empowering Nurses Through Peer-Led Instruction to Increase Specialty Certification Rates

J Nurses Prof Dev. 2023 Sep-Oct;39(5):E103-E107. doi: 10.1097/NND.0000000000000814. Epub 2022 Jan 21.

Abstract

Nursing specialty certification is an organizational, nursing, and professional goal for many stakeholders. Several types of review courses are available to support nurses. A peer-led certification review course was designed and implemented for medical/surgical and telemetry nurses. The peer-led instruction was the crux of empowering nurses to achieve certification. Assessment of the intervention was measured by quantitative data on pass rates. Evaluative information was gathered from the participants. Certification rates increased for applicable units.

MeSH terms

  • Certification*
  • Humans
  • Motivation
  • Power, Psychological
  • Specialties, Nursing*