Many registered nurses have advanced practice credentials, which means they're nurse practitioners, certified registered nurse anesthetists or qualified in other advanced areas of nursing. Your nurse practitioner credentials should be listed after your RN.
For instance, use "Susan E. Likewise, if you hold certification in public health nursing, your signature would be, "Susan E. Always indicate your certifications last.
Generally speaking, your nursing credentials — or, any professional's credentials — should begin with the highest credential, followed by second- and third-highest and so on. The Fitzgerald Health Education Association says that you should list your credentials beginning with your advanced degree, whether it's a doctorate, masters or bachelor's. You don't need to recertify academic degrees since they can't be taken away from you.
I think the practice of listing your license immediately after your name started to become the standard because most nurses start out in work environments where it is not the norm to list your educational level.
When charting, they were taught to just list Nurse Name, RN in their documentation as a staff nurse. As nurses got additional education, they just continued to list the RN first out of habit and just added the MSN or whatever at the end.
Over the years, it just became the norm in some places to list the RN first even though it is not technically correct. Has 26 years experience. Does it really matter? I honestly didn't care when I was a new graduate.
Even as I graduated from my BS program I thought that the extra time was a waste of money. Exception- unless you want to be an officer in the military. A good bedside nurse doesn't need a BS. A BS is good for nurses who don't really want to do hands on nursing. The nurses who can make rules and more and more paperwork for us nurses doing the real nursing. Those who without the real experience make our job harder than it needs to be.
Less and less time with the patient and more and more time on paperwork and the computer. Good luck to you. Don't ever think you are any better than another nurse who does not have a BS. Forget about your letter order. When you sign orders, write nurses' notes, you sign your name only with RN after, you don't use your degree.
Your license to practice nursing is what matters, not the coursework you chose to enable you to take the licensure exam. I'd put the whole signature in alphanumeric order, except for real estate, which is realer than imitation sheepskin. In signing, be relevant. Authority to take orders over the phone, plan care, supervise, etc is granted by the licensing state and represented by the letters RN. Related or additional credentials outside of nursing can be listed if the holder chooses.
It is important that credentials be written using the correct acronym. Always research a credential you're not familiar with to make sure you know the acronym. If the exact name of the degree is unknown, find out before you attempt to write down someone's credentials.
The American Psychological Association and the Medical Library Association recommend not using periods when writing acronyms for credentials, such as using RN for registered nurse. You can find the acronym for most credentials at resourcenurse. Write credentials in their order of importance in case some may have to be excluded. There's no firm rule dictating this; however, it's common practice.
List degrees before licenses, since degrees are earned and permanent. Licenses must be renewed and could even be revoked. A registered nurse who has earned a bachelor's degree in nursing would write her credentials as BSN RN.
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