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How to Earn Contact Hours |
To ensure the validity of this credential and its consistency with industry standards, we require contact hours earned for CNOR recertification to be related to the specialty of surgical nursing. Although the following is not an all-inclusive list, it provides a broad range of surgical-specific subjects:
- Perioperative scope of practice
- Nursing process
- Recommended practices
- Anatomy and physiology
- Surgical procedures
- Technology changes including new instrumentation
- Pre-, intra-, and postoperative patient care (patient assessment)
- Pharmacology
- Discharge planning
- Professional development
- Ethics
- Leadership/supervisory skills
- Precepting
- Critical thinking skills
- Legal issues
- Infection control
- Disease management (HIV, hepatitis, diabetes, etc.)
- Home healthcare management
- Research posters
- AORN Congress programs
- AORN Journal Home Studies
- Communication
- Pain management
Unacceptable Contact Hours for CNOR Recertification
- Any program approvers or providers not listed under Acceptable Providers.
- Handwritten accreditation statements or provider numbers.
- Certificates of attendance without an appropriate accreditation statement and/or acceptable provider number.
- Contact hours earned prior to January 1, of the year you certified or recertified.
- Provider numbers that do not state Board of Registered Nursing.
We have taken into consideration the wide range of subject areas and programs related to surgical nursing while still maintaining our commitment to the foundation of this credential.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at (888) 257-2667.
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