Welcome to Your CPNP ® Perspectives.
This edition of CPNP Perspectives shares changes for 2011 Recert, Certification Advocate Award Winners and how you can apply, the Kudos Corner, plus updates to the Child & Adolescent Behavioral & Mental Health Specialty Certification Exam.
If you have questions or comments at any time, please contact us at pncb@pncb.org so we can help.
Changes for Recert
We're offering new options and making Recert more flexible for you! Visit Recert Updates on the web to learn more about:
Enrollment Date Changes. Recert enrollment will be October 1 to December 31, 2010 to align with the calendar year.
Paperless Enrollment. In our continuing efforts to support the environment, Recert will become completely paperless for 2011.
More than 95% of all PNCB-certified nurses used online Recert last year.
New Options. Beginning with 2011 Recert, you can now combine contact hours with a Professional Practice Learning (PPL) option if you'd like. PPLs include:
• Lecture presentations at national, regional or local conferences
• Scholarly posters accepted for conference or hospital presentation
• Authorship of a journal article or a textbook contribution
Plus those that you may already be familiar with:
• Clinical Practice: 200 hours within 12 months of Recert enrollment
• Academic Credit: 1 semester or credit hour
• Preceptorship of graduate nursing students
Changes for SAEs. The SAEs will now be called Standards Assessment Exams and...
• Become smaller modules (35-40 questions for 7.5 contact hours)
• Offer more choices with targeted clinical topics
• Will be exclusively online with reduced fees
• Primary Care CPNPs can now take Acute Care SAEs
• Will be due 90 days from date of purchase
If you did not take the 2010 Primary Care SAE for 2010 Recert, this final printed edition will be offered again for 2011 Recert. Answers will be submitted online by participants, and are due 120 days from date of purchase.
Banking SAE CE for future Recert: With the new smaller, topic-focused SAEs, you can take more than one in a Recert year.
Each year, CPNPs may enroll to complete additional SAE modules, and the contact hours you earn can be "banked" for future use.
While the number of SAE contact hours required over the 7-year cycle will be the same (45 if PC or AC, and 60 if dually certified PC/AC), CPNPs may
now purchase multiple SAEs and apply this earned SAE CE to a future Recert enrollment. Banked SAE CE is valid for 24 months after completion.
CPNPs will have the flexibility to plan ahead in meeting their SAE requirements within their 7-year cycle.
Your current 7-year tracking cycle will not change. The number of SAEs you'll take is equivalent to the contact hours earned from SAEs required in your 7-year cycle.
Strengthening CE Requirements. Beginning with 2011 Recert, you'll need to document 15 contact hours of CE. This change meets new national competency standards for nursing professionals and is consistent
with state board of nursing requirements. PPL is equivalent to 5 contact hours, and can count toward this requirement. The PNCB website currently features
free CE links, plus we're developing no-cost online CE activities.
A New Benefit. The PNCB is developing a way for you to archive CE from any source... any time. My ReCErt Tracker will be available year-round starting this fall and can be used as your personal
portfolio that you can email or print for yourself, employers or state boards.
New benefit for those holding both CPN® and CPNP® certification. If you want to maintain both certifications,
we're combining both Recert programs for you to streamline enrollment and reduce costs. Instead of fulfilling CPN® and CPNP® Recert requirements separately,
the SAE requirements will merge into one Recert program, and your CE-related options will not be duplicated. This will substantially reduce your Recert fees.
If you have any questions about these changes, please contact us at recert@pncb.org so we can help.
Kudos Corner!
Rebecca Kajander, CPNP was awarded a Distinguished Nurse Award from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, which recognized 100 nursing professionals in celebration of its centennial year.
Rebecca received the award for promoting the nurse practitioner role in Minnesota and her work with special needs children. In April, she published Be Fit, Be Strong, Be You with Timothy Culbert, MD
to help tweens take a positive, holistic approach to their well-being.
Monika B. Pis, PhD, CPNP a full-time pediatric clinician in Taylor, Michigan, has co-founded the e-parenting magazine Plugged In Parents (PIP).
She serves as the health editor-in-chief for PIP and writes about various parenting issues. Last year, Plugged In Parents was selected by Real Simple magazine as one of the best
parenting websites with practical information.
Ruth Roeder, CPNP and colleagues published Depression and mental health help-seeking behaviors in a predominantly African American population of children and adolescents with epilepsy in the
August 2009 issue of Epilepsia.
Kudos to each of you! Have you published an article or book related to advanced pediatric practice or given a presentation?
We'd love to tell your CPNP colleagues all about it! Email feedback@pncb.org to share your news so that we can feature it here.
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Special Announcement:Child & Adolescent Behavioral & Mental Health Specialty Exam
The content outline for this historic exam to recognize primary care APRNs who have added knowledge, skills and expertise in the early identification,
intervention and collaboration of care of children and adolescents with mental and behavioral health concerns is now available at
www.pncb.org/bmh.html.
Eligibility recommendations and FAQs for this new specialty exam have also been posted. Visit the website frequently for updates.
The exam development committee met in August, and exam launch is expected in spring 2011.
Certification Advocate Award Winners
Congratulations to Anna Tielsh Goddard, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC and Shari Simone, MSN, RN, CPNP-AC for their outstanding performance in
promoting CPNP® certification and advancing the profession of pediatric nursing!
To nominate a Primary Care CPNP®, Acute Care CPNP®, or CPN® colleague who is an outstanding advocate
for certification at a local/hospital level, regional or national level, download an application. Self-nominations are accepted, and submissions are due December 1, 2010.
A Pittsburgh native, Anna completed the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program at Yale and works in the Advanced Practice Services Department at Children's Medical Center of Dallas
with over 180 nurse practitioners and physician assistants. She has authored several publications and has presented at regional and state levels while in Connecticut. Anna has served as a clinical preceptor for Yale School of Nursing and is an active member of the Greater Texas
NAPNAP chapter. Anna has been involved with the PNCB as an item writer and serves as a member of the Primary Care CPNP® Exam Committee.
Shari is the Lead NP for Women's & Children's Services at the University of Maryland Medical Center and holds a clinical faculty appointment at the University of Maryland School of Nursing in
the Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program. As the first PICU NP at the University of Maryland, she developed the model of care and continues to participate in shaping NP
practice within the organization. She has published extensively on pediatric critical care topics, and is an experienced nurse researcher and national presenter.
Shari participated in the development of the PNCB Acute Care CPNP® examination and continues to serve on Acute Care CPNP® Exam Committee.
She is currently in the DNP program at the University of Maryland.
We hope you enjoyed this edition of CPNP® Perspectives.
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