Summary: Numerous studies show the importance of nursing specialty certification. We have Dr. Karen Kesten, DNP, RN, APRN, CCRN-K, CCNS, CNE on to talk about why getting your specialty certificate is important for you and your patients. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it. It’s the Nursing Show.<br> The Nursing Show is a proud member of the <a title="ProMed Network site" href="http://promednetwork.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ProMed Podcast Network</a>.<br> Brought to you by <a href="http://physio-control.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Physio-Control Inc.</a> and their tools to help nurses and other health care professionals continue to innovate their patient care.<br> —-<br> Get the Free Nursing Show Mobile App – Search in your app store!<br> —-<br> Welcome to the Show<br> <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.nursingshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Female-Nurse-Thumbs-Up.jpg"></a>Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the Nursing Show podcast for nurses, by nurses. I’m your host Jamie Davis and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for checking out the show this week. In this week’s episode, I recently attended the NTI Critical Care Nurses Conference in Houston and interviewed Karen S. Kesten, DNP, RN, APRN, CCRN-K, CCNS, CNE, the chair of the AACN Certification Corporation board of directors. As Associate Professor at the George Washington University School of Nursing, Washington, DC, Dr. Kesten has experience as a bedside nurse in critical care, educator, and researcher. She most recently served as director of faculty initiatives at American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC.<br> Here’s that segment from the <a href="http://aacn.org">American Association of Critical-Care Care Nurses (AACN.org)</a> NTI 2017 conference in Houston.<br> If you want to get back in touch with me, please drop me an email. You can send those emails in to <a title="email link" href="mailto:nursingshow@gmail.com">NursingShow@Gmail.com</a>. I love to hear from you and I make sure I respond back to every email that comes in. Send me links to news items you’d like me to cover, interview suggestions with you or somebody you know.<br> <a href="http://physio-control.com"></a>Also, a special thank you to <a href="http://Physio-Control.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Physio-Control</a> for a special partnership supporting this episode of the podcast. That’s it. I will have more contact information coming up later on in this episode. Let’s get into this week’s news items coming right up!<br> —–<br> If you have any questions, links, and more reference information is available in the show notes for this episode over <a title="Nursing Show website" href="http://www.nursingshow.com">nursingshow.com</a>.<br> You can find more video segments like this one at <a href="http://nursingshow.tv/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://NursingShow.TV</a><br> —-<br> GoDaddy.com with special promo coupons for the Nursing Show audience<br> <br> * Visit NursingShow.com/deals for all <a title="GoDaddy Coupon Codes and Deals" href="http://NursingShow.com/deals">GoDaddy coupons and details</a>.<br> <br> ——<br> Don’t miss an episode! You can receive the <a title="Fill out form in upper right corner of the NS site" href="http://www.nursingshow.com/blog">Nursing Show Newsletter</a> in your email inbox.<br> Other Podcasts from Jamie Davis:<br> <br> * <a title="podcast link" href="http://mediccast.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The MedicCast</a> (for EMTs, Paramedics, EMS field work)<br> * <a title="Insights in nursing podcast" href="http://insightsinnursing.com/">Insights in Nursing</a><br> * <a title="Nursing Notes Live podcast" href="http://nursingnoteslive.com/">Nursing Notes Live</a> (for Johnson and J...
