Nurse Email Signature Generator with Credential Order
Choose your degrees, license, state designation and certifications, get them in ANCC's recommended order, and drop the result into a ready-made signature with your role, unit and facility.
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Please do not send symptoms or other medical details by email. For urgent symptoms, call 911 or your local emergency number. |
Put your nursing credentials in order
Pick what you hold. The order follows the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC): highest degree, license, state designation, national certifications, awards, then anything else.
Elena Torres, MSN, RN, CCRN
ANCC notes that one degree is usually enough, with a second when it is in another relevant field, and that journals sometimes order credentials differently. If your hospital has a signature policy, follow it.
What This Nurse Signature Includes
Each item below is already in the template. Use the credential tool above, then replace the rest of the sample details.
Credentials in ANCC order
The name line lists degree, license and certification in the order ANCC recommends: Elena Torres, MSN, RN, CCRN.
Role and unit
Your role and unit share one line, with your service or department underneath.
Facility and direct extension
Facility name, phone extension and building location, so colleagues and patients reach you without going through the switchboard.
Patient email note
A short note asks patients not to email symptoms and points them to emergency services for urgent problems.
Common Email Client Quirks (And How We Solve Them)
Email signatures frequently collapse in Gmail, Outlook, or Apple Mail. Here is how our compiled HTML prevents formatting disasters.
Issue:On laptops set to 125% or 150% display scaling, desktop Outlook can show a photo at its original file size.
Issue:A signature copied from a Word document or web page brings hidden formatting that can break the layout or push it over Gmail's size limit.
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Best practices for Nurses (RN, NP & APRN) email signatures
Degree first, then license
ANCC puts your highest degree first because it is permanent, then your license (RN, LPN) and any state designation (APRN, NP, CNS), because you need those to practice.
Drop the bachelor's when you hold a doctorate and a master's
ANCC: if you have a doctorate and a master's degree, omit your baccalaureate. With a master's alone, one degree is usually enough unless the second is in another relevant field.
Order certifications by what matters in your role
ANCC lets you list multiple nursing certifications in the order you prefer, for example the most relevant or the most recent first. Non-nursing certifications always go last.
Frequently Asked Questions for Nurses (RN, NP & APRN)
What order should nursing credentials go in?
ANCC recommends: highest earned degree, licensure, state designations or requirements, national certifications, awards and honors, then other recognition. ANCC's own example is 'Nancy Gordon, MBA, MSN, RN'.
Do I list my BSN if I have an MSN?
Usually not. ANCC says one degree is usually enough, with a second when it is in another relevant field, as in 'Anne Peterson, MEd, BSN, RN'. If you hold both a doctorate and a master's, ANCC says to omit the baccalaureate.
Where do APRN or NP go?
After your license and before national certifications. ANCC treats APRN, NP and CNS as state designations or requirements.
My hospital uses a different order. Which should I follow?
ANCC notes that journals sometimes order credentials differently and that following their style is acceptable. If your hospital has a signature policy, follow it.
Is this nurse signature template free?
Yes. It uses the free Clinical template, and free signatures carry no watermark.