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The American Board of Nursing Specialties (ABNS) conducted a survey to determine the value professional nurses place on nursing certification as well as barriers to certification. This article presents an overview of the survey results in general and specifically the views of nephrology nurse participants.

Barbara F. Prowant, MSN, RN, CNN, is Research Associate in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. She is a member of ANNA’s Central Missouri Chapter and serves as a Commissioner of the Nephrology Nursing Certification Commission. For more information on this article, contact the author at ProwantB@health.missouri.edu.

Bonnie Niebuhr, MS, RN, CAE, is Chief Executive Officer of the American Board of Nursing Specialties.

Melissa Biel, DPA, RN, is Assistant Professor, Chapman University College, Long Beach, CA.