Maintaining Certification

We are to write our plan of care or action toward obtainin/maintaining our certification in our chosen line of practice.  I have chosen the ER to  be my speciality of choice so therefore my biggest certification will be the CEN which is the Certified Emergency Nurse.  I have heard that this is a substantial accomplishment so my primary goal is to gain the knowledge base that I will need over the first few months of working within an ER and hopefully obtaining this certification within a 2year time frame from when hired.  I hope that I will be able to get all the qualifications accomplished in a timely matter though if hired into an ER.  Classes such as ACLS and PALS are huge in the ER and will help me be the efficient nurse that I want to be. I will actually try to go above and beyond and certify in multiple areas if possible so that I will create a better knowledge  base and also continue to push myself so that I can value my job for as long as possible, and continue to love what I do.