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Attention Nurses, and Clinical Research Personnel! Please visit our Self-Study Options listed on the left for a listing of available courses for you to earn Contact hours or CEUs towards your license. You can also click here to take courses online. Take classes and print your certificate from your home computer. Yes, it’s that easy!!
FAQs about CEUs & Contact Hours
What states in the U.S. accept Corexcel’s ANCC Contact hours to satisfy mandatory nursing continuing education requirements?
Corexcel programs are good for nursing credit in all 50 states.
Corexcel is an approved Florida provider #FBN2479
Corexcel is an approved California provider #CEP 13687
Corexcel is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).
If you need information about re-certification or re-licensure contact hour requirements, please contact your certification board or state board of nursing.
What are Contact Hours?
"Contact Hours" is the term used by the American Nurses Credential Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC) to define a unit of nursing continuing education in nursing. A contact hour for all courses accredited on or after January 1, 2007 is defined as:
"Sixty minutes of an organized learning activity, which is either a didactic or clinical experience."
To estimate the number of contact hours for an educational activity, total the minutes spent in didactic or clinical experience and evaluating the activity and divide by 60. For example, 60 minutes = 1 CH, 150 minutes = 2.5 CH, etc.
What other healthcare disciplines accept ANCC contact hours?
ACRP:
ACRP members can take nursing credit courses and apply them to their ACRP recertification.
NCBDE:
In June of 2005 The National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators (NCBDE) announced that ANCC Accredited and Approved Providers have been approved by the NCBDE as providers of continuing education. Individuals seeking re-certification from the NCDBE can use continuing education contact hours received through attendance at an activity provided by an Accredited or Approved Provider of ANCC to meet the continuing education requirements for re-certification established by the NCDBE. Corexcel is an ANCC provider.
What are CEUs?
In 1970 a national task force of volunteers met to establish a form of credit for continuing education different from the semester system used in higher education. That credit was named the "Continuing Education Unit" and has come to be known as the "CEU". A CEU is defined as:
"Ten contact hours of participation in an organized continuing education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction, and qualified instruction."
The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) is the founder and guardian of the CEU and determines the criteria for awarding CEUs. Corexcel is an authorized provider of the CEU.
Corexcel is accredited as an authorized CEU provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
What states in the U.S. accept CEUs to satisfy mandatory continuing education requirements?
Many states, and countries, accept CEUs to satisfy mandatory continuing education requirements. Check with your local licensing board to verify their policies. Click here for a list of organizations that accept CEUs from the IACET web site
Educate Your Customers and Award CEUs or Contact Hours
Often organizations want to provide their customers with an educational offering and to provide the participants with CEUs or Nursing Contact Hours. Corexcel can jointly sponsor a program with you and award those participants who successfully complete the program with CEUs or contact hours. If you have a program you would like to make web based we can do that as well. We work with your team to put the program on the web and attach the appropriate credits.
Our educational experts will work with you to:
- Identify your audience’s learning needs
- Develop learning outcome measurements
- Identify a qualified instructor
- Create measurable objectives
- Determine how to measure learning
- Evaluate the program and provide credit
You can choose the best way to deliver your education!
- Web-based or Webinar
- Written self-study
- Instructor-led
- CD-ROM or DVD
- Audio-taped
If you have questions about CEUs or Contact Hours, e-mail us today! learn@corexcel.com
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