Continuing Education FAQ

• What is NAPNAP's agency provider number?
• As the presenter at a NAPNAP approved program, can I receive contact hours?
• Now that Florida is using an online system for tracking continuing education (CE Broker), are NAPNAP contact hours still recognized by the Florida State Board of Nursing?
• I had just heard that ANCC only accepts ANCC CEU's. Does this mean that my NAPNAP contact hours cannot be used for my ANCC recertification?
• Does NAPNAP have a required statement for use in promotional materials for CE programs that have pending approval?
• Can I use NAPNAP contact hours to renew my Advanced Practice Specialty Certification with the Michigan Board of Nursing?
• NEW! A drug representative that has previously provided give-aways at our CE dinner meetings has told me that he is no longer able to do this because of new industry guidelines. What are these guidelines and how do they impact our chapter CE activities?
• NEW! What are the Canadian requirements for continuing nursing education?

Question: What is NAPNAP's agency provider number?

Answer: NAPNAP's agency provider number is A10.

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Question: As the presenter at a NAPNAP approved program, can I receive contact hours?

Answer: Yes, each NAPNAP presenter who is a licensed nurse who is presenting a NAPNAP approved continuing education course (as either the lecturer of the offering or as author of the course materials) may receive credit for the portion of the offering that she/he presented or authored to the total hours awarded for the offering. Please note the NAPNAP continuing education credit may be awarded to a lecturer or author for the initial presentation of each program only; repeat presentations of the same continuing education course shall not be granted credit.

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Question: Now that Florida is using an online system for tracking continuing education (CE Broker), are NAPNAP contact hours still recognized by the Florida State Board of Nursing?

Answer: According to Paula DiBenedetto, Ph.D., M.S.N., R.N., Nursing Education Consultant, Florida Board of Nursing, the Florida State Board of Nursing Rules and Regulations reads (64B9-5.004 Procedure for Approval of Attendance at Continuing Education Courses)  All licensees may be awarded contact hours for attendance at offerings that are approved by a state or national organizations empowered to accredit nursing continuing education.  Contact hours may be awarded for offerings that are approved by a state or national organization.  Florida nurses would keep the certificate, and if audited would send a copy of the certificate to prove the CE.  CE Broker will just keep track of Florida providers.  Licensees that attend conferences outside the state, attend school and count that for credit will have two options with CE Broker: 1) Subscribe and be able to manually input CEs other than those provided by Florida providers; or 2) not subscribe, keep the certificate/transcripts and be prepared if they are picked for an audit at the end of their renewal cycle.  CE Broker is designed to let FL know at the end of a renewal cycle which nurses show less than 25 hours.  They can then audit a percentage of those nurses.   

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Question: I had just heard that ANCC only accepts ANCC CEU's. Does this mean that my NAPNAP contact hours cannot be used for my ANCC recertification?

Answer: ANCC does accept NAPNAP contact hours. When applying for recertification from ANCC the following rules apply (Click here to access this information on ANCC's web site).

The majority (51%) of the continuing education credits must be directly related to your specialty area.50% of the continuing education requirement for recertification must be from an ANCC accredited provider or from one of the following providers: American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP); American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP); American Academy of Physicians Assistants (AAPA); American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM); American Psychiatric Nurses Assn. (APNA); Emergency Nurses Assn. (ENA); National Assn. of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH); National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP). Additionally, offerings will be accepted as part of the 50% requirement that are provided by organizations accredited by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), for example: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) or American Psychiatric Assn. (APA)

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Question:  Does NAPNAP have a required statement for use in promotional materials for CE programs that have pending approval?

Answer:  NAPNAP suggests you use the following statement: "This program is pending approval by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) for ____  NAPNAP contact hours, of which ____ are pharmacology content."   However, keep in mind that not all programs are approved.  

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Question:  Can I use NAPNAP contact hours to renew my Advanced Practice Specialty Certification with the Michigan Board of Nursing?

Answer:  The Michigan Public Health Code and board administrative rules require that within the 2-year period immediately preceding the renewal application a nurse practitioner must have obtained national recertification or maintained national certification through their certification board.  NAPNAP contact hours are recognized by ANCC (When applying for recertification from ANCC the following rules apply (See: http://www.nursecredentialing.org/cert/recert/cats/info.html).  NAPNAP contact hours are also accepted by PNCB (See: http://www.pncb.org/ptistore/control/certs/cpnp/contact_hour).

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