By the Numbers
Three terms: ANCC Contact Hours, ANCC CNE Credit, or ANCC NCPD Contact Hours
What terminology must be used when referring to contact hours in accredited education?
These are known and provided to guide the development of learning outcomes and ensure relevance for the target audience
What are established professional competencies?
Expiration date and all required disclosures before the learner engages with the content
What must be included in disclosures for enduring activities?
By space and/or time, with no marketing in the educational space within 30 minutes before or after the activity
How must marketing by ineligible companies be separated from accredited education?
It includes what documents or attachments to submit with your activity files
What is the final page of the planning form?
The adoption of the ANA manual as the primary guide for nurse planner work
What is the first new policy?
A detailed agenda specifying time allocations
What is required for activities longer than 3 hours?
They are based on the type of educational need—knowledge, skill, or practice—and designed to engage learners
What are active learner engagement strategies?
It tracks all offerings and summative evaluations for multiple workshops
What is the recurring spreadsheet?
Provide evidence that accredited education is separated in space and/or time from marketing or nonaccredited sessions
What is the new requirement for documenting ancillary activities in the planning form?
This document must be submitted that reveals the criteria for awarding contact hours, relevant financial relationships, and accreditation statement
What are disclosures to learners?
To guide and inspire the nursing profession by delivering expertly designed, evidence-based continuing professional development to foster excellence in nursing practice
What is a summary of ANA Accredited Provider’s mission statement?
At least once every 3 years, or more frequently if needed
How often must enduring materials be reviewed for accuracy and relevance?
Polling, multiple choice, true or false, reflection prompts, written tests, or self-report
What are assessment methods for a knowledge gap?
The need to identify a content expert on the planning committee
What documentation requirement was removed from the planning form to reduce redundancy?
They must be involved in planning when there is non-accredited education happening alongside accredited education
Who is the nurse planner?
Three documents that contain a place to document the summative evaluation
What are the planning form, recurring spreadsheet, and series spreadsheet?
Review all content for compliance with integrity standards, copyright law, and accessibility best practices
What is the role of the Nurse Planner in content integrity and accessibility review?
The mathematical calculation used to determine the number of contact hours
What is no longer required for activity documentation?
Documents like the ANA Scope and Standards or ANCC Leadership Scope and Standards
What are two resources the ANA Accredited provider supplies for finding competencies?
Accreditation statement, criteria for awarding contact hours, and presence/absence of relevant financial relationships for clinical activities
What must be disclosed to learners before a clinical activity begins?
Explicit consent from the learner
What must be obtained before sharing learner contact information with an ineligible sponsor?
This is no longer required to be submitted with activity files even if not excluded due to the ANCC firewall
What is the content of the accredited education activity?
ANA Accredited Provider
What term refers to the program that accredits educational activity for the ANA?
Three years from the start date
What is the maximum expiration date for enduring activities?
Q&A activity
What is NOT considered an active learner engagement strategy?
Start date of enduring/prework and date(s) of live portion
What must be included for blended activities in the planning form?
Implement mitigation strategies and disclose to learners that the relationship has been mitigated
What must be done if a relevant financial relationship is identified?
Emails, nursingworld.org page, and/or registration page of accredited activities
What are the marketing materials that are no longer required to be submitted as part of the activity files?
Planning committee members and speakers attending a concurrent session as learners, but not for sessions they present
Who can earn contact hours for a session at a conference?