The Essential Certification for Today's Professional Nurse
The Professional Validated Nurse (PVN) certification provides college-educated nurses with a clear professional credential that validates readiness to practice across the full scope of modern nursing practice.
Going beyond licensure, PVN bridges the gap between academic preparation and professional expectations by validating the broad knowledge, skills, and judgement required of today's nurses.
What the PVN Certification Validates
The PVN is a post-licensure professional certification designed to validate the knowledge, skills, and behaviors that extend beyond entry-level clinical safety.
While licensure exams confirm minimum knowledge needed to begin practice, the PVN certification validates professional nursing knowledge, skills and behaviors.
- Nursing education leaders
- Health systems
- Professional nursing organizations
- Knowledge for Nursing Practice
- Population Health
- Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline
- Quality and Safety
- Interprofessional Relationships
- Systems-based Practice
- Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
- Professionalism
- Personal, Professional and Leadership Development
See How It Works
Ready to earn the credential the profession has been waiting for?
Registration takes minutes. The credential lasts a career.