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About CRNFA Recertification |
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 CRNFA recertification methods are available:
- By contact hours: 1000 clinical practice hours and 200 contact hours, 500 clinical practice hours and 300 contact hours
- By points: 1000 clinical practice hours and 400 points, 500 clinical practice hours and 500 points
- By exam: 1000 clinical practice hours to recertify by exam
Objectives of Recertification:
- Recognize the individual registered nurse first assistant (RNFA) who is proficient in practice.
- Strengthen conscious use of theory in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care.
- Enhance professional growth through continued learning, which broadens knowledge and expands skills.
Purposes of CRNFA Recertification:
- Demonstrate concern for accountability to the general public for nursing practice.
- Enhance quality patient care.
- Identify RNFAs who have demonstrated professional achievement in providing care for patients during surgical intervention.
- Provide employing agencies with a means of identifying professional achievement of an individual RNFA.
- Identify professional nurses practicing in an expanded role.
RNFA-Specific Subject Matter for CRNFA Recertification
- Scope of practice
- Nursing process for RNFAs
- Asepsis, infection control, and epidemiology
- Surgical anatomy and physiology
- Intraoperative RNFA nursing behaviors
- Assisting considerations and procedure management (including specific surgical procedures and assisting techniques)
- Surgical hazard recognition and intervention (including lab values and EKG interpretation)
- Communication skills (including professional writing and presentations)
- Professional development (ethics, mentoring and precepting, leadership skills, self-care issues, critical-thinking skills, practice management, entrepreneurship, marketing, reimbursement issues, negotiation, and contract skills)
- Pre- and postoperative patient care (rounding, patient education, etc.)
- Trauma and physical assessment
- Pharmacology
- Patient safety issues
- Pathophysiology
- Discharge planning
- Medical record dictation
- Legal, policy, and practice issues
- Home healthcare relating to RNFA practice
- Technology changes/advances and their effect on the RNFA role
- Healthcare reform
- CRNFA review
- Managed care (critical pathways, utilization review, outcomes)
- Invasive and noninvasive diagnostic procedures
- Surgical complications
- Wound management
- Materials management/product review
- Bioterrorism
Grace Period Policy for CRNFA Recertification
Your application must be postmarked on or before July 1st 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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