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CCRN Certified Jobs
CCRN is the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' certification for bedside care of acutely and critically ill patients, and its exam follows those patients through intensive care, cardiac and trauma units and critical care transport.
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What the dash in CCRN-CMC costs
Cardiac medicine and cardiac surgery are subspecialty exams that can't stand alone, written CCRN-CMC and CCRN-CSC. Under the dash AACN wants a current US RN or APRN license, a nationally accredited specialty certification and counted hours: one route is 1,750 hours of acutely or critically ill adult care across two years, 875 of them cardiac. For cardiac surgery those 875 have to fall inside the first 48 hours after the operation, which is a much narrower window than the letters suggest. CCRN is one qualifying certification of several; PCCN and CCNS open the same exam.
Your questions about CCRN certified jobs, answered
- What happened to CCRN-E and CCRN-K?
The AACN retired those letters on November 14, 2023 and put everyone under plain CCRN. You still qualify through a pathway, and the adult certification has 3 of them: direct care, tele-critical care and knowledge professional. The credential itself stopped saying which one you used. Start and end dates carried over untouched, so an older badge reading CCRN-E is the CCRN a posting is asking for.
- Adult, pediatric or neonatal?
The AACN certifies the 3 populations separately, with an exam each, and it counts your hours in the population you're certifying in. A pediatric intensive care posting means the pediatric CCRN and a newborn unit the neonatal one, so moving between them means sitting the other exam. The pathways differ as well: tele-critical care is written for adult patients, which leaves direct care and knowledge professional for the pediatric and neonatal versions.
- Does the CCRN survive a move off the unit?
It survives, on a different pathway. Renewing a CCRN by direct care asks for 432 practice hours across the 3-year cycle with 144 of them in the last 12 months, alongside either 100 continuing education points or a repeat of the exam. A nurse who moves into education, management or another role that shapes critical care without delivering it renews as a knowledge professional, and an adult certificant who moves to remote monitoring renews through tele-critical care.