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About CNOR Recertification |
Starting in 2010, CNOR applicants for recertification must be currently certified in perioperative nursing, and have been employed as a registered nurse in an administrative, teaching, research or general staff capacity in perioperative nursing (either full time or part time). Applicants must have worked a minimum of 500 hours in perioperative nursing within the five year recertification cycle. (Click here to view eligible perioperative roles.)
CNOR Recertification Requirements
As a credentialed professional, you have confirmed your familiarity with the scope of practice. Certification is an indicator of a higher standard and practice within the nursing profession and a mark of personal achievement.
Three CNOR recertification methods are available:
- By contact hours: 125 contact hours (75 of them related to peripoerative practice.)
- By points: 300 points
- By exam
Objectives of Recertification:
- Recognize the individual registered nurse who is proficient in practice.
- Strengthen use of theory in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care.
- Enhance professional growth through continued learning, which broadens knowledge and improves skills and practice.
Purposes of CNOR Recertification:
- Demonstrate concern for accountability to the general public for nursing practice.
- Enhance quality patient care.
- Identify registered nurses who have demonstrated professional achievement in providing surgical nursing care.
- Provide employing agencies a means of identifying an operating room nurse's professional achievement.
- Bring the nurse personal satisfaction.
Grace Period Policy for CNOR Recertification
Your application must be postmarked on or before July 1, of the year you are due to recertify, to avoid a $75 late fee.
Late applications for recertification will be accepted for six months after the July 1 recertification application deadline with a $75 late fee added to the application fee. Applications must reach the CCI office no later than December 31 of the recertification year. This extended grace period is not an extension of the time allowed to accrue contact hours. If your application is received by December 31 with the $75 late fee, and you have met all the requirements for recertification, you will be recertified with no lapse in your certification status. Applications received after December 31 will be declared ineligible.
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