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Nurses and employers trust PNCB's high quality certification programs. Our CPN, CPNP, or PMHS credentials confirm your expert knowledge and dedication to excellence in the profession. More than 40,000 nursing professionals choose PNCB certification because we lead the way in respected validation, outstanding service, and support for promoting the specialty.
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Changes in pediatric healthcare occur every day. Make sure you're ready.

Pediatric Updates: Primary Care: 2019 Current Concepts
- Contact Hours: 7.5
- Price: $85.00
This wide-reaching module brings you recent respected articles for issues seen in primary care settings. Get an update on risk reduction for sudden infant death, transgender issues, supporting the grieving child and family, chronic/recurrent abdominal pain, enterovirus infections, community acquired pneumonia, meningococcal disease, hepatitis A, B, and C, Marfan syndrome, deformational plagiocephaly, primary care for children with CHD, and precepting NP students.

Pediatric Updates: Acute Care: Clinical Cross-Section 2019
- Contact Hours: 7.5
- Price: $85.00
Slice through a wide variety of pediatric acute care topics and age ranges in a single module with evidence-based content that includes: community-acquired pneumonia, sepsis, stroke, Kawasaki disease, rhythm disturbance, ECMO, tube feeding, refeeding syndrome, abdominal compartment syndrome, pneumothorax and pleural effusions, testicular and ovarian torsion, sexual assault, and forgoing life-sustaining medical treatment.
News & Resources
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Nov 01 2019
2020 Recertification Now Open!
Applications are now open. Read this update about your portal to recertify. Applications are due by January 31 to avoid a late fee.
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Sep 05 2019
New Benefit: UpToDate® Discount
PNCB certificants save up 23% on UpToDate! Learn about your new benefit.
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Jun 12 2019
Free CE: Pediatric Behavioral Health in Primary Care
Earn 0.5 contact hours with PNCB’s latest module! Access to behavioral healthcare for children and teens is at a crisis point in the United States, and primary care providers are increasingly...
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