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JOURNAL OF NURSING CARE QUALITY
Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages E1-E5Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000397
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certification; clinical outcomes; literature review; nursing certification; systematic review
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Background: Certification of nurses has been identified as a strategy to improve health care quality. However, the impact nursing certification has on clinical patient outcomes remains unclear. Purpose: The purpose was to examine the relationship between nursing certification and clinical outcomes. Methods: A systematic review of the literature was conducted through the search of relevant bibliographic databases (CINAHL Plus, PubMed, Medline, and Cochrane Collaboration). Results: Nursing certification was found to have a significant inverse relationship to patient falls and health care-associated infections. Significant correlations were not established in outcomes such as pressure injuries and mortality. Conclusions: The validation of knowledge through nursing certification has an impact on specific outcomes such as patients falls and health care-associated infections.
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