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Eligibility for CNOR Recertification |
Without exception, you must meet ALL the following requirements by the application deadline:
- You must be currently certified in surgical nursing.
- You must be currently licensed, without provision or condition, as a registered nurse in the country where currently practicing.
- You must have been employed as a part-time or full-time registered nurse at some time within the two years immediately prior to application. This employment must be in surgical nursing and can be in an administrative, teaching, research, or general staff capacity.
- You must have worked a minimum of 500 hours in perioperative nursing within the five-year recertification cycle.
The following registered nurses are considered ELIGIBLE for CNOR recertification:
Surgical services positions that include, but are not limited to:
- Staff nurse
- Surgical services administrative nurse manager
- Surgical services nursing coordinator
- Assistant surgical services supervisor
- Surgical services director
- Surgical services information technology specialist
- Surgical services budget and finance manager
- Surgical services central processing manager
- Surgical services materials manager
- Surgical services quality assurance coordinator/auditor
- Surgical services head nurse
- Surgical services assistant head nurse
- Surgical services team leader
- Surgical services charge nurse
- Perioperative educators or staff development director (whether teaching registered nurses, student nurses, or surgical technologists)
- Private RN scrub nurse
- RN first assistant
- Perioperative administrative supervisor
- Medical-surgical instructor in perioperative nursing
- Perioperative clinical nurse specialist or nurse clinician
- Full-time students who meets applicant status requirements
- Perioperative nurse consultant
- Individual who handles the perioperative role in a noninvasive/invasive procedure setting, such as a radiology suite, a cardiac cath lab, an office surgery setting, or an endoscopy suite
- Clinical education consultant (who provides in-service programs to operating room staff)
- Case manager
The following registered nurses are considered INELIGIBLE for CNOR Recertification:
- Nurse anesthetist (eligible only if functioning as a perioperative nurse)
- PACU nurse or manager (eligible only if relieving in the operating room as needed or has responsibility for operating room/surgical services)
- Preoperative holding or patient check-in nurse or manager (unless relieves in the OR as needed, or is responsible for OR/surgical services, then eligible).
- Emergency room nurse
- Operating-room labor and delivery nurse (eligible only if surgical procedures such as Caesarean sections are done in delivery room)
- RN sales representative (eligible only if performing the role of perioperative nurse part-time or the role of perioperative educator, i.e., providing in-service programs)
- Director or assistant director of nursing service (eligible only if directly responsible for the operating room)
- RN hospital administrator/assistant administrator (eligible only if directly responsible for operating room/surgical services)
- Nurse in surgical care or surgical rehabilitation units
- ICU or coronary-care-unit nurse
- Infection control nurses/nurse epidemiologist (eligible only if directly responsible for operating room/surgical services)
- Veterinary operating-room nurse
- Cardiopulmonary perfusionist (eligible only if performing the role of perioperative nurse)
- Nurse with inactive licensure and/or graduate nurse status
Graduate nurse operating-room experience cannot be considered equal to professional (RN) operating-room–nurse experience.
Nationality, race, creed, lifestyle, color, sex and age play no role in determining eligibility for certification or recertification through CCI. In the event of ineligibility, application and fee are returned along with explanation.
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