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Just received this from the National Certification Corporation (NCC). Please note for future reference. Everyone currently certified as any of the following should receive new credentials by the end of April, 2008.

Based on a need to better recognize the specialty focus of certification and to make certificates of added qualification more transparent to the public, the NCC Board of Directors has decided to change the credentials that are issued for all NCC certification specialty examinations as follows:

Core Certification Examinations

These examinations currently include those certified as RNCs in a nursing specialty area. The RNC designation will be retained but a specialty component will be added for each specialty certification as follows:

Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing — RNC–NIC

Low Risk Neonatal Nursing — RNC–LRN

The new Neonatal Pediatric Transport certificate of added qualification will be designated as follows:

Neonatal Pediatric Transport — C–NPT





Advanced Practice Certification Designation

Aligning with recent decisions of other national nursing certification organizations, NCC adopted a more universal credential to designate advanced practice that will make it more understandable to the public and to emphasize the specialty area of expertise. The previous credential was RNC. The new credentials will be:


Neonatal Nurse Practitioner — NNP–BC

The NNP will highlight the specialty and BC stands for Board certified, a shorthand terminology that is commonly used to explain certification to the public.

These new credential designations will go into effect May 1, 2008. New certificates will be issued to each NCC certified professional during February through April 2008.

The webpage is currently unavailable, but you can see the announcement here:

http://www.nccnet.org/public/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1