Certified Nurses Day 2025

Many households, all alike in dignity. In the fair hospital (or outpatient), we lay our scene.

Yeah, that’s the beginning sentences to Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet.

Happy Certified Nurses Day 2025 to all who celebrate it.

Not all nursing specialties have certifications, but most do.

You take a band of nurses who all work in different areas of the hospital. This one works on med-surg, this one works on labor and delivery, this one works post partum, this one works in cath lab, this one works in the operating room, and this one works in the emergency room.

OB has beef with the OR. ICU has beef with med-surg. Everyone has beef with the ER.

Stop!

We are all nurses and healthcare professionals, just trying to do our best for the patients. And their families. And our work families. And our real life families. And our pets.

Whether you are interested and pursue certification is up to you and who you go home to at night.

Whether you are interested and pursue additional education is up to you and who you go home to at night.

Certified, not certified for whatever reason, we all passed the same NCLEX.

Which makes us sisters and brothers.

Ignore the bratty younger sister and brother. Also ignore the know it all older sibling.

You are enough.