Hot Button Issues

ABPANC believes CPAN® and CAPA® certified nurses and potential candidates should have access to as much information about the certification process as possible. To achieve this goal, ABPANC updates and publishes, ABPANC Hot Button Issues. The document summarizes key ABPANC decisions and provides a rationale for the decisions made. The latest summary discusses the following questions/subjects:

• Why the change to clinical practice requirement for initial certification?
• Why was a public member (ABPANC's Public Member) elected as President-Elect?
• Why don’t practice examinations give answers and rationale?
• No computer to register for an examination or apply for recertification online?
• Why can’t we recertify online? You can, beginning with certificants due to recertify in fall 2009.
• Why don’t we have a retired status?
• Why aren’t CPAN® and CAPA® examinations given internationally?