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Documentation of 10 Contact Hours or Academic
Credit
May be selected for 6 years of your 7-year cycle
Looking for an approved contact hour agency? Need to calculate CMEs to CEUs? Scroll down to find out more about
this Recertification option.
Basic Guidelines:
Please read the following to help you determine acceptable content for this CPN® Recertification option:
- Contact hours or coursework must be in content areas relevant to pediatric nursing or professional growth and development in nursing.
- Contact hours can come from a variety of agencies/providers.
- Contact hours may be provided by employers or state boards, and may be awarded from other health disciplines, such as social work and physical therapy, if applicable to pediatrics.
- CE or CME from journals, conferences, in-services, presentations, and grand rounds are all valid.
- Contact hours earned through a previous PNCB Self-Assessment Exercise (SAE) taken for Recertification cannot be used for this option.
- Academic credit course work must be successfully completed.
- Academic credit or contact hours can't be the same as reported in a previous year.
- Academic credit or contact hours must have been earned within
two years of the annual Recertification deadline date of December 1.
On your online Recert application, you'll need to share the following with us:
Program Name
Dates Attended
Contact Hours
Eleven sections are available on your online Recert application, should you need that many to add up to 10.
We've listed examples below, but this isn't a complete list. Basically, if the CE you earn is applicable to pediatrics, you may use it.
- Advanced Pediatric Life Support (APLS) 5 contact hours only accepted
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) 5 contact hours only accepted
- Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) 5 contact hours only accepted
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
- American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
- American Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) - Category
1 (AMA)
- American Nurses Credentialing Center
- (ANCC) Association for Woman's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal
Nurses
- (AWHONN) Basic Trauma Life Support (BTLS) 5 contact hours only
- Center for Disease Control (CDC) Emergency Nurses Association
(ENA)
- Emergency Nurses Pediatric Course (ENPC) 5 contact hours only
accepted
- International Board of Lactation Consultants (IBLC)
- National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN)
- National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP)
- National League for Nursing (NLN)
- Nurse Practitioner Associates for Continuing Education (NPACE)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - Can be used no more than
twice during a 7-year Recertification Program
- State Nurses Associations/State Boards of Nursing (SNA/SBN)
- Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
Can I use the CE hours earned from SAEs?
If a PNCB SAE was used as a former Recertification activity,
the contact hours earned by completing the SAE for Recertification
cannot be used for documentation strategy in another Recertification
year. Feel free to use these contact hours earned for a state board of nursing or employer.
Do you need to see documentation?
Please do not mail us copies of your documentation. We'll only need to see this if you are selected in our annual random audit. When you fill out your online or paper application, you'll complete a signature line
attesting that the information you submitted is true.
Calculating Contact Hours
1 (CEU) = 10 contact hours
1 contact hour = 0.1 CEU
1 contact hour = 50 minutes
1 CME = 60 minutes or 1.2 contact hours
1 AMA credit = 60 minutes or 1.2 contact hours
1 academic credit = 10 contact hours
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