How to Earn Contact Hours

• 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

Unacceptable Contact Hours for CRNFA 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, 2001.
• Provider numbers that do not state Board of Registered Nursing.