CPNP-AC Recert FAQs

You can access your digital wallet card at any time by logging in to Profile & Wallet Card. Your wallet card updates 15 minutes after Recert payment is processed.

No. A current, active, and unencumbered license is required to maintain your certification.

From November 1 through January 31 login to your portal to complete your application.

Log in to your Recert Dashboard to see where you are in your 7-year Recert tracking cycle.

Log in to your ReCErt Tracker to see your past Recert enrollment submissions.

Log in to Your Dashboard to see which Pediatric Updates you have completed. 

Continuing education includes lectures, seminars, conferences, online education, grand rounds, etc. that you attend as a learning exercise. Contact hours can be earned for attending a continuing education course. Review your recertification guide for more information about contact hours.

Review your recertification guide to see what other options are available to you, including Professional Practice Learning (PPL), free CE resources, academic credit, and Pediatric Updates.

Yes, you may apply the remainder to the following year as long as the contact hours are earned within 24 months preceding your Recert enrollment application date.

You must document 15 earned contact hours.

 Review your recertification guide for specific information on accepted contact hour content for your certification, as well as a list of accepted agencies.

No, you will attest that the continuing education was completed. Certificates are required when your application is audited.

If you earn less than 70% you will be given a free retest. Details will be sent to you by email.

View our Answering Your PNCB Module Online resource for more information. All answers must be submitted online. 

No. For PNCB Recert, 200 clinical practice hours can count as 5 contact hours, and 400 clinical practice hours can count as 10 contact hours.

Clinical practice hours are work or volunteer hours that involve the direct "hands-on" assessment or clinical management of pediatric patients or indirect care such as management, charting, supervision or education of other personnel or students to help achieve patient care goals. 

Yes, faculty can count direct clinical supervision of students in the same certification specialty and teaching class time that awards academic credit to students. 

Courses must be relevant to your certification specialty, and you must be the learner, not the instructor. DNP courses are accepted for CPNP Recert; however, these cannot be courses completed in the program you used to meet exam eligibility requirement

PPL is equivalent to 5 contact hours for your Recert.

No.

One CPNP Pediatric Updates module equals 7.5 contact hours. You can combine a Pediatric Updates module with documentation of 2.5 earned contact hours plus 1 PPL option.

Lectures of at least one hour in length that are sponsored by an employer, a membership or educational organization, and awards CE to attendees. Learning objectives and a reference list must have been provided and the content must be related to pediatric nursing or nursing leadership.

No, precepting must be of graduate PNP or FNP students (focused on the mastery of pediatric clinical content).

Your poster must be related to pediatric nursing or nursing practice in addition to being accepted by the organization you are presenting to.

Authorship must have been for a peer-reviewed journal article or textbook contribution and may be co-authored, and be nursing-related professional articles and use professional references.

Yes, an unpublished or published doctoral dissertation/capstone project or master's thesis meets this requirement. 

Yes, membership on a committee at a state or national level as an officer or committee member of a task force related to pediatric nursing can be used for recertification.

Yes.

Examples of awards include but are not limited to: PNCB, Society of Pediatric Nurses (SPN), or National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) annual awards, Daisy Award, Nightingale Award, GEM Award, or Magnet Nurse of the Year.  

Verification of certification is available 24x7 to all state boards of nursing. Verification will be sent to all state boards of nursing included on your recertification application.

Yes. The State Board of Nursing receives verification of certification in your name as printed on your wallet ID card. The name on your certification must be your legal name. If not, log in to Applications/Forms to complete our Name Change Application and upload required supporting documents.

Once you enter the Dually-certified AC/PC Recert Program, you begin a new 7-year cycle. Check your online wallet card for the expiration date of your newest certification. You will enter the Dually-certified Recert program between November 1 and January 31 prior to this expiration date. 

Some conferences offer content for both roles. You will need to identify which of the attended sessions you are using for each certification.

No, clinical practice hours must be relevant to the type of certification.

Yes, enter the module as CE on your CPN recertification application.

No, the CE content must be relevant to the CPN role.

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