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Eligibility for CRNFA® Certification |
You must be CNOR certified or certified as an advanced registered nurse practitioner with a BSN or MSN degree by the application deadline for the testing window selected.
Track your practice hours online, or download the CRNFA documentation form.
Without exception, you must meet ALL the following requirements by the application deadline:
- You must be currently licensed, without provision or condition, as a registered nurse in the country where you're currently practicing surgical nursing.
- You must be a CNOR or an advanced registered nurse practitioner certified in your specialty at the time of application.
- You must have a BSN or an MSN degree and a copy of your diploma must accompany your application. Even if your bachelor's degree is in another field, as long as you have an MSN, you're eligible for the CRNFA exam.
- You must have completed at least 2000 documented hours of practice as an RNFA, including pre-, intra-, and postoperative patient care. Pre- and postoperative patient care does not necessarily have to be connected to cases on which you've assisted.
- The 2000 hours may include practice in an RNFA internship or practicum but may not include attendance of classes, programs or seminars.
- 500 of these hours must have been within the two years immediately preceding application.
- The exam contains 70 percent intraoperative patient care and 30 percent pre- and postoperative patient care. Therefore, 600 of the 2000 hours required for eligibility may be pre- and postoperative patient care, and at least 1400 hours must be intraoperative practice.
- Written documentation of the 2000 hours of practice must accompany your application.
- You must have completed an acceptable formal RNFA program.
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