Release Date: 09/24/2021
NASN staff members (all) will be required to complete the self-paced on-demand online training annually and will receive a certificate of completion once successfully finishing the content review and evaluation assessment.
If you are an admin on this website, please reach out to nasn@nasn.org to have your admin status removed temporarily while you enroll in and complete this training.
Nursing team members will have three months to complete the training from the original launch date, and all other NASN staff members will have six months to complete the training from the original launch date unless otherwise noted.
Program Overview
This education was created to bring a basic understanding to American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and its process. NASN staff will learn how everyone’s role is integral to the success of Nursing Continuing Professional Development content creation. We will go through the basic terminology, specific roles and responsibilities of the Accredited Provider Program Director (APPD), the importance of calculating contact hours, and much more. Lastly, we will discuss how quality improvement is necessary to enhance the NCPD content that NASN provides to school nurses to keep moving the profession of school nursing forward.
Learning Outcomes
As a result of participating in this educational activity, learners will be able to:
- Recognize and understand ANCC Titles.
- Describe the roles of the Accredited Provider Program Director (APPD) and the Nurse Planners (NPs)
- Explain the importance of Relevant Financial Relationship forms.
- Describe the method for calculating Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) contact hours for live or recorded webinar courses.
- Identify the forms that are required to be in every Activity File.
This education is specifically created for NASN internal staff members only.
Content Creator
Jade Slaffey, MSHCA, BSN, RN
National Association of School Nurses
Nursing Education and Practice Specialists and Lead Nurse Conference Planner
Faculty and Nurse Planner Disclosures
NASN must ensure that all educational session content is free of commercial bias and influence. The intent of this disclosure is to provide learners with information on which they can make their own judgments.
All committee members (and their spouses) with the power to control or influence the content of this training disclose the absence of relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies within the past 12 months.
Accreditation Statement
National Association of School Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Accredited status does not imply endorsement by NASN or ANCC of any commercial products discussed in this learning activity.
Commercial Support or Grant Funding
This program did not receive commercial support or grant funding.
Instructions to Complete this Activity
To receive a Certificate of Completion for this course, follow the steps below, and complete and view the full content of the program including the course evaluation.
Step 1: Enroll in the course through the e-commerce system. Select the Purchase button. You will be directed to the e-commerce system. The item should already be in your shopping cart (look for the shopping cart icon at the top of the e-commerce web page).
Step 2: Complete and view the full content of the program. Content items are indexed at the bottom of this screen. After you enroll, you will return to this screen. The first content item will be “unlocked” so that you can begin completing the course. Subsequent items will “unlock” as you complete previous items.
Step 3: Print the certificate.
NOTE: If you believe you have reviewed all the content and are unable to access the certificate of completion, please review an audit of your activity. To find this, click on your name in the upper right corner of the screen. Once directed to your activity, select "library" to review which content has not been marked as completed and which has not.