As the health sector evolves through the waves of the pandemic and digital transformation coupled with skillset shortages on the frontline, the need for comprehensive, specialized skillsets in the sector is being felt and nurses have a huge opportunity to step up. While the sector reforms to create a more supportive environment for nurses, nurses themselves can take steps to support their own professional development and also improve the impact they make on their own practice, health service and patients. 

In this talk, Leyden De La Cruz, QEII Hospital’s newest certified Credentialed Gastroenterology Nurse, highlights how credentialing has helped her in her own endeavours to grow as a nurse and elevate the value she brings to models of care, patients and the hospital:

• Why nurses must explore the value of credentialling programs
• How credentialing helped her improve alignment with evidence-based practices and research to improve care quality
• How credentialing opened new opportunities from a career and professional development standpoint