Cindy Bradshaw, ACC
NCCAP Administrator

There have been several articles written on this subject; non which have been as simply stated as the following:

If you are getting ready to submit your Certification RENEWAL application keep in mind...

1. Check your certificates to make certain they contain the necessary information — YOUR name, the session title, the date, the number of actual clock hours, the name of the speaker(s) AND their credentials, and a SIGNATURE of the sponsor.
   IF it is NOT on the certificate, WRITE it on the certificate OR attach the information — like a portion of the registration brochure, etc. — that indicate the necessary information.
2. As indicated on the renewal form, WRITE the name of the session, the dates and the number of hours on the provided lines.
   EXAMPLE:
   Documentation; June 1, 2001; 6.0 hours.
3. IF the session is more than a day long — typically 8 hours — the time outline MUST be included to show the number of hours would NOT be acceptable UNLESS it has an NCCAP pre-approval number on it indicating it has already been reviewed for the time outline.
   EXAMPLE:
   June 1, 2001; 32 hours
4. As indicated, the continuing education MUST come from the past 2 years.
   EXAMPLE:
   If your expiration date is June 1, 2001, then your qualifying continuing education must come from June 1, 1999 - June 1, 2001. Hours from 1991 will NOT qualify.
5. SIGN YOUR APPLICATION. Not signing delays the processing time.
6. ONLY submit sessions for continuing education you have taken. Stating “PENDING” on the form with a future date does NOT qualify.
7. It MUST be found in the NCCAP Body of Knowledge. Not everyone knows it by heart — but a guideline would be that, in order to qualify, it be RELATED to the field. “Debreeding Maggots from Skin Wounds” then would NOT qualify, nor would “How to Potty Train a Child.”
8. It is NOT necessary to submit 275 hours of continuing education; but rather closer to the number needed, having checked to see that it contains all the necessary materials.
9. It is NOT necessary to send in ALL the handouts from the sessions you attended. While the reviewers enjoy reading them, the speakers and sponsors may object to sharing their materials.
10. IF you have previously submitted the continuing education hours in a previous renewal, DO NOT send it again. NCCAP does keep the records from ALL the renewals, and with little effort can determine that it had been used in three different renewal applications.

While some of these items might sound exaggerated or “off the wall”, these are things that have actually been submitted to the NCCAP office on a routine basis.

PLEASE review the application, follow the checklist, and the process should go much more smoothly and much more quickly. NN

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