Accreditation, Certification. and Licensure issues.
You may be aware of an emerging certification dialogue. FYI at this point.
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Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:04 PM -0400
From: Marianna Staroselsky
To:
Subject: DNP Certification Exam
Dear Nursing Deans and Directors:
I am writing on behalf of the newly-created American Board of Comprehensive
Care. In order to distinguish DNP graduates who have achieved a high level
of competence in comprehensive care, the Council for the Advancement of
Comprehensive Care (CACC) and the National Board of Medical Examiners
(NBME) have agreed to offer a certification examination that will validate
the advanced clinical competency of these graduates. CACC, founded in 2000,
has established the American Board of Comprehensive Care (ABCC) as its
certifying body.
Advanced practice nurses with national certification in an advanced
practice nursing specialty, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, are
eligible to sit for certification. The exam is derived from the test pool
of the USMLE Step 3 exam for MD licensure candidates. Successful DNP
candidates will be designated as Diplomats in Comprehensive Care by the
American Board of Comprehensive Care.
The first exam will be offered on November 10, 2008. The application
deadline is June 16th, 2008. For further details, please see the ABCC
website: http://www.abcc.dnpcert.org/index.html
We are interested in contacting DNP graduates from your program who might
be interested in taking this certification exam and ask if you would
forward this email to them or provide us with their contact information.
Please contact me if you have any questions. Thank you.
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Sincerely,
Marianna Staroselsky
Administrative Assistant
212-305-3254
abcc@dnpcert.org
American Board of Comprehensive Care
4 comments:
I was under the impression that getting my Doctorate in Nursing Practice from the University of Virginia was the validation of my clinical competency!
My first thoughts when I saw this was .... not another certification to keep up. I already have to keep up both the CNS and NP certifications. Would this one certification combine the two and would the DNP then be recognized by the insurance industry for billing purposes. There will be a lot to work out if this becomes a requirement.
An editorial yesterday in the Wall Street Journal
Doctoral nursing programs aim to help fill gaps in primary care provision
04/02/2008
In an effort to offset the shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs), nursing schools are launching doctorate of nursing practice (DNP) programs designed to endow graduates with a skill set comparable to that of PCPs, the Wall Street Journal reports. The two-year programs-which include a one-year residency-aim to create a "hybrid practitioner" with more skills, knowledge, and training than a master's-level nurse practitioner; DNP programs also place a greater emphasis on care coordination across multiple specialties and various health care settings than physician training programs. In addition to their grounding in diagnosing and treating patients, DNPs can have hospital admitting privileges, administer preventive care, and manage complex patient illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease. Although DNP programs are still relatively new-with just over 200 nursing schools currently offering or planning to add them to their degree offerings-the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) estimates that 1,874 students are currently enrolled in DNP programs, up from 862 in 2006. To standardize the programs, the not-for-profit Council for the Advancement of Comprehensive Care plans to today announce that the National Board of Medical Examiners will develop a voluntary DNP certification exam based on the test physicians take to qualify for medical licensure; the board plans to begin administering the exam-which will be smaller in scale than the three-part exam that physicians take-in the fall. To encourage participation in DNP programs, meanwhile, the AACN by 2015 intends to make the doctoral degree the standard for all new advanced practice nurses, including nurse practitioners. Reflecting on these plans, however, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners has expressed concern that doctoral programs "might be raising the bar too high for their profession." Other medical professionals, meanwhile, worry that the programs may lure nurses away from bedside care and further exacerbate the national nursing shortage, while still others caution that "blurring the line between [physicians] and nurses will confuse patients and jeopardize care." Responding to these concerns, DNP program advocates say that an increase in practicing DNPs would benefit the health care landscape two-fold by increasing the number of primary care providers, as well as the number of faculty candidates available to train nursing students
Dear Marianna Staroselsky--
Currently, I am a board certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and DNP student at the University of Virginia. I am curious as to how the American Board of Comprehensive Care would influence my credentialing. Who are members of this board? Why is the national board of medical examiners developing a competency for the highest level of advanced nursing practice? I appreciate your input.
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