Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN)

12/11/2025

Please join BCEN in wishing Director of Strategy & Operations Brigid Flood a very happy retirement! 🥳🎊🎉

Since 2016, Brigid's strategic leadership and tireless commitment to operational excellence and customer satisfaction has helped advance BCEN's mission and vision of supporting RNs across the emergency spectrum. Congratulations Brigid, and thank you for nearly 10 years in service to BCEN's nursing community! 🙌

12/09/2025

Thanks for tuning in to BCEN & Friends this year! With Season 6 now complete, let's review our top-streamed episodes of 2025:

🥇 Compassion is a Universal Language (Marvin Delfin)
🥈 CFRN Roundtable: Get to the Chopper! (Jonathan Baxter, Caroline Levin, & Jacob Miller)
🥉 Don't Let Your Dreams Just be Dreams (Adam Vilander)
🏅 Start Doing What You're Meant to Do (Reginald Santiago)
🏅 Gratitude in Every Line I've Ever Read (Jacki Roland)

We had many memorable conversations about nursing and learning with some outstanding thought leaders, BCEN certified nurses, and industry professionals—all to create value and insight for professional RNs across the emergency spectrum. Stay tuned for Season 7, coming in 2026!

🎧 Listen to the podcast: https://ow.ly/1zGv50XGt5u

12/08/2025

🚨 With an 8% increase in emergent cases projected over the next decade, EDs across the country are getting busier and more complex. According to a recent article from Becker's Hospital Review, high-acuity patients now spend an average of 5.3 hours in emergency departments.

Specialty certified RNs bring the expertise and skillset needed to deliver exceptional care in high-pressure, high-acuity settings. And facilities hiring these highly competent nurses will be most prepared as emergent cases continue to rise.

Is your ED equipped with a staff of specialty certified nurses? Find support for nurses and leaders:

Be your best self. Learn how an emergency nursing specialty certification with BCEN can set you up for advancement & optimal career success.

12/07/2025

🔴LIVE Q&A January 14: Rebecca Garber, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, APRN, CBRN, FAANP

Tune in from 12-1pm CST for a free CE webinar and live Q&A session exploring electrical burn injuries! 🔌

Showcasing real patient cases, we'll follow the full continuum of burn care, from emergent resuscitation to reconstruction and long-term effects.

⚡ Describe mechanisms of electrical burn injury, associated injuries and chronic considerations
🏥 Discuss emergent treatment of burn injuries
🔍 Review a couple of cases: one clinic reconstruction and another personal testimonial

Attend free (1 CE): https://ow.ly/vTJa50XE8LI

12/06/2025

Huge thanks to the CTRN Exam Construction Review Committee for braving the snow to meet with us in-person this week! ❄️ BCEN is powered by the generous contributions of volunteer RN subject matter experts who help maintain rigorous, up-to-date certification programs.

See our latest updates to the CTRN critical care ground transport nursing certification 👉 https://ow.ly/srYb50XE8vL

12/05/2025

Every five years, BCEN convenes a panel of critical care transport nursing experts to lead a CTRN role delineation study (RDS), a rigorous process that helps ensure the CTRN certification exam remains accurate, current and valid. As a result of the 2025 CTRN RDS, a revised CTRN exam content outline will go into effect March 30!

💡 Find out what's new and meet the volunteer CTRNs who brought 139 years of nursing experience and 70 years of ground transport specialty experience to the role delineation process: https://ow.ly/Eu4Q50XCMP2

12/01/2025

Invest in Yourself: Leading from the Bedside, Leading by Example 💪 https://ow.ly/16IQ50XyknF

“Investing in yourself is doing something today that will benefit you tomorrow.”

Two years into being an ED nurse, Wilmar Flores, MS, BSN, RN, CEN, NEA-BC decided to challenge himself and take the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) exam.

When a leadership opportunity arose early in his career, Wilmar credits being nationally board certified with making him stand out as a candidate.

“It became the catalyst of how I led my career as a bedside nurse and as a leader in our profession.”

Investing in yourself isn’t just about earning credentials and taking courses—it’s about shaping your future every day so you can thrive. Hear Wilmar's formula for investing in personal and professional growth in our latest Invest in Yourself interview: https://ow.ly/16IQ50XyknF

11/28/2025

Who motivated you to get board certified? Tag them in the comments to share your gratitude! 🙌

Far more than just an individual achievement, specialty nursing certification has a ripple effect that uplifts entire teams. See the impact: https://ow.ly/Mlra50Xyk0k

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11/26/2025

As a result of BCEN’s 2025 trauma nursing job analysis, an updated TCRN exam content outline goes into effect on November 29, 2025. The exam passing score will also be updated to reflect the latest exam content outline, as determined by the 2025 TCRN Passing Point Study (PPS).

✅ Updated TCRN Passing Score: 96/150 questions
🗓️ Effective Date: November 29, 2025

Peek into BCEN's research-based certification maintenance process and meet the volunteer RNs behind the latest exam update: https://ow.ly/oFXU50XwZqz

11/24/2025

🔴LIVE Q&A December 3: Shari Flores, DNP, MBA, MSN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN, SCRN, CHFN

Learn to spot inferior MIs, manage AV blocks, and apply key cardiac interventions fast in BCEN's upcoming webinar, The Flipside: The Coolness Found in Exploring an Inferior MI.

🫀 Identify the territories of the myocardium.
💊 Formulate a pharmaceutical plan for the inferior infarct patient.
🩺 Differentiate the four heart blocks.

Attend free (1 CE): https://ow.ly/BIiL50XuWcf

11/22/2025

Yesterday BCEN was honored to film an interview with Gretchen Brown Carroll at University Health KC. 🎬 We look forward to sharing her incredible story of resilience, a personal tragedy shifting the trajectory of her life's work and culminating in an extraordinary career as a board certified emergency and trauma nurse, in our next video.

Gretchen joins several BCEN certified nurses sharing their stories at the intersection of personal growth, professional development, and nursing specialty certification. Watch our video series to hear real RNs share their motivations and journeys to practice at the top of their specialty: https://ow.ly/N5o750Xw0JB

11/20/2025

The results are in! 📊 The 2025 BCEN Culture of Certification Support Survey findings are now live.

Hear what emergency, trauma, transport and burn nurses said about where they feel most supported by their workplaces—and where support for specialty certification could be strengthened.

BCEN thanks the thousands of nurses who responded to the survey and made their voices heard.

📖 Check out the survey highlights and key insights: https://ow.ly/JlBi50Xuq8P