Effective January 1, 2007, as required by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) criteria, PLU CNE began offering the 60 minute contact hour. According to ANCC, "This change brings greater consistency with the accreditation process of other disciplines and increases the understanding and intuitiveness of the awarding of contact hours."
Pacific Lutheran University School of Nursing, PA-19/Dec/08, is an
approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Washington State
Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.
The School of Nursing is approved as a provider of inservice education
clock hours by Professional Education and Certification Division of the
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), Olympia, WA.