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Documentation of 10 Contact Hours or Academic
Credit
May be selected for 4 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:
Contact hours earned through a previous PNCB Self-Assessment Exercise taken for Recertification cannot be used for this option.
For this Primary Care Recertification option, contact hours must be:
Earned in content areas relevant to pediatrics.
Completed prior to your enrollment in Recertification.
Earned within 2 years of the annual Recertification enrollment deadline of December 1.
Can come from a variety of agencies/providers.
Can 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.
May be CE or CME from journals, conferences, in-services, presentations, etc. 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,
earned within two years of the annual Recertification deadline date of December 1, and cannot
be the same as reported in a previous year. Coursework must be relevant to pediatric nursing.
We've listed examples below, but this isn't a complete list. Basically, if the CE you earn can be applied 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) - Cannot be used more than
once 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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