Nurses confirm their skills, knowledge, and abilities through certification and meeting ongoing learning and practice requirements through their certification. The advantages of being certificated are that patient, families, employers, and nurse’s benefit all from the certification. In the health care field nurses need to have knowledge and awareness of taking care of patients and taking care of someone else’s loved one. Registered nursing licensure measures a potential nurses competence in the ability to be proficient in the health care field. The rules and regulations viewed on the Maryland Board of Nursing website are strict and very well organized (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, n.d., para 1). It seems that now-a-days patients are sicker and need more critical care than ever better. Hospitals are just like any other business it has competitors and needs validation to open the doors. Certification is a vehicle for hospitals to say “Hey look at me!” It demonstrates to the public that we have skills and experienced professionals. Personally, I’m still working through which area of field that I would want to see my future in. I would …show more content…
. In order to be able to practice outside of your home state it must be one of the 24 compact states that exist. Nurses will obtain a license by their home state meaning that they no longer need any additional licenses to practice in a nursing compact states. Nurses are responsible for complying with the licensure requirements in their home state. However, working in a compact state you can also be held accountable for the nurse practice act of the state where the patient is. The nurse will not have to pay additional fees or applications from compact-to-compact