CPNP-PC Recert FAQs

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

Licensure is needed to maintain your certification. You'll need to hold a current, valid registered nurse license to practice as a registered nurse or...

During annual Recert enrollment (November 1 through January 31), you will complete an online application. Payment is by credit card, ACH electronic ch...

We no longer offer paper forms. Our online Recert application for processing credit cards and electronic checks meets the highest industry standards f...

Public libraries offer free access to computers. You might also want to ask your employer, a relative, or friend if you could use a computer. 

Log in to your Recert Dashboard to see your past Recert enrollment submissions. This tool will tell you where you are in your 7-year Recert tracking c...

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

The easiest way to keep track of what you've done in the past is to log in to Your Dashboard and review which Recert options you've already completed...

Continuing education includes lectures, seminars, conferences, online education, grand rounds, etc. that you attend as a learning exercise. Contact ho...

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

If you attend a conference earning more than the required amount of contact hours, you may apply the remainder to the following year as long as the co...

You must document 15 contact hours earned prior to submission of your application. Contact hours must have been earned within 24 months of enrollment...

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

When you select a documentation option that includes contact hours, academic credit, or PPL, the hours you document must be earned within 12 (clinical...

Please do not send copies of any documentation. We'll only need to see these if you are selected in our annual random audit. You will attest that the...

Certificants who do not earn a 70% or greater on their Pediatric Updates will be given a free retest opportunity. Retest details will be emailed to th...

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

No. You may choose this option if desired. Review your recertification guide for details about using clinical practice for Recert. For PNCB Recert, 20...

Clinical practice hours are work or volunteer hours that involve the direct "hands-on" assessment or clinical management of pediatric patients or indi...

Yes.

If you have 400 clinical practice hours, you can count this as 10 contact hours.

Yes, faculty can count direct clinical supervision of students in the same certification specialty (advanced practice faculty must have direct supervi...

Courses must be relevant to your certification specialty. You must be the learner, not the instructor. The course can be either a semester or quarter...

PPL is equivalent to 5 contact hours for your Recert. You can combine PPL with either 10 contact hours or 1 semester or quarter hour of academic credi...

No. You must document 10 accredited contact hours with a PPL, or 1 semester or quarter hour of academic credit with a PPL.

One CPNP Pediatric Updates module equals 7.5 contact hours, so you can combine a Pediatric Updates module with documentation of 2.5 earned contact hou...

For non-academic lectures, you can use a lecture of at least one hour in length that is sponsored by an employer, a membership or educational organiza...

Precepting must be level-appropriate for your certification type. CPNPs must precept graduate PNP (or FNP students focused on mastery of pediatric cli...

You will need to be able to demonstrate that your poster was juried (accepted and presented) by the organization to which you presented. Content of yo...

Authorship must have been for a peer-reviewed journal article or textbook contribution and may be co-authored. There is no set length or word count fo...

Yes, unpublished or published doctoral dissertation/capstone project or master's thesis meet this requirement if completed within the past 24 months p...

Yes, membership on a committee within the past 24 months at a state or national level as an officer or committee member of a task force can be used fo...

Yes, advanced practice nurses can use committee membership on a pediatric nursing practice committee or task force as PPL. You must have served in the...

Examples of awards include but are not limited to: PNCB, Society of Pediatric Nurses (SPN), or National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (...

Verification of certification is available 24x7 to all state boards of nursing. A Board can verify or re-verify information on-demand and as many time...

Yes. The State Board of Nursing receives verification of certification in your name as printed on your wallet ID card. If either your PNCB record or l...

Only one per year. For details on maintaining both Primary Care and Acute Care certification, review your recertification guide. As an example, if you...

Once you enter the Dually-certified AC/PC Recert Program, you begin a new 7-year cycle. This allows for tracking your new Dually-certified Recert requ...

Some conferences, such as NAPNAP, offer content for both roles. You will need to identify which sessions you attended and which of the attended sessio...

Clinical practice hours must be relevant to the type of certification. The CPN and CPNP roles are different and include different competencies. Recert...

Yes, enter the module as CE on your CPN recertification application. Some PNCB Pediatric Updates modules are relevant to both nursing roles and there...

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

You can use Pediatrics in Review for your CPN recertification if the review is of a disease from diagnosis to follow up. If the content is only releva...

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We hope you enjoy your retirement! Visit our Retirement page for information about notifying us. We want to be sure to keep you from getting Recert re...

Should you need to consider an appeal concerning Recertification, please consult our Appeals Policy and Procedures.