Documentation of 5 Contact Hours & Clinical Practice or Preceptor Hours
May be selected for 4 years of your 7-year cycle

Acute Care CPNPs® may document 5 acute care pediatric-related contact hours in combination with either clinical practice or preceptor activity. Scroll down to learn more about each component of this combined documentation option.

Contact Hours Component:

The same policies apply for 5 contact hours as for the 10 contact hour option. For acceptable content, agencies, and more, click here.

Clinical Practice Hours Component:

Follow these guidelines for acute care clinical practice activity:

The clinical practice must have occurred within the past 12 months prior to submission of your Recertification enrollment.
A minimum of 200 hours of direct acute care clinical practice is required.
All clinical practice requirements must have been met while the CPNP® held an active PNP license or authorization in the state or territory in which the acute care clinical practice occurred.
Clinical practice hours should reflect direct "hands-on" assessment and clinical management of children. Practice time does not include the management, supervision or education of other personnel or students to help achieve patient care goals.
Clinical practice hours may be volunteer time spent providing direct acute care pediatric nursing care.

Preceptor Hours Component:

Follow these guidelines for acute care preceptor activity:

A minimum of eighty (80) hours of preceptor activity with graduate pediatric nurse practitioner or family nurse practitioner students focused on mastery of pediatric acute care clinical content is required.
All preceptor requirements must have been met while the CPNP® held an active registered PNP license or authorization in the state or territory in which the acute care precetorship occurred.
Preceptor hours cannot be used to meet any clinical practice recertification option.
Preceptor hours must have occurred within 24 months prior to submission of your Recertification enrollment.