Each issue of the Journal for Nurse Practitioners includes one article with a continuing education activity. The CE activities are provided by Nurse Practitioner Alternatives (NPA). NPA is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Maryland Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. The authors and the CE providers work together to develop questions and evaluations for each CE activity.
Each CE exercise consists of a single exam with short questions followed by a brief post-test evaluation. To start an exercise, select an exercise below. We recommend that you read the program description before taking a test. You may complete the exercise in one sitting or you may save your work in progress and complete it at a later date. You may create a free personal account to return to your work in progress and track your progress through the program.
Online System
Minimum System Requirements
486 Pentium 1 level computer (PC or Macintosh)
Windows 95, 98 2000, XP, NT or Mac OS
Netscape 4.x or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x and above
16 MB RAM
56.6K modem
RECEIVING CE CREDIT
Credit for the CE activity may be received through one of two ways:
After reading the article, complete the multiple choice examination and evaluation online. A score of 70% must be achieved to pass the exam. The exam may be taken more than once. A certificate with the credit awarded may be printed from the online website. This CE activity is free.
After reading the article, complete the multiple choice examination and evaluation found in the Journal and mail to NPA, PO Box 540, Ellicott City, MD 21041-0540 along with a $10 check made out to Elsevier. A score of 70% must be achieved to pass the exam.
ACCESS TO THE ONLINE VERSION OF THE JOURNAL FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERS
As of February 1, 2007, full online access of the Journal for Nurse Practitioners is available only to members of the American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) and Premium Qualified Subscribers. If you are already a member of ACNP, you may sign in through the ACNP Website for seamless access to JNP. If you are not an ACNP member, you may become a Premium Qualified Subscriber by going online at www.npjournal.org and following the links at About JNP Online to register for both the hard copy and online subscription. These subscriptions are free. If you have taken the test online but have not been able to print out a certificate, you are not yet a Premium Qualified Subscriber.
EXAM LIST FOR THE JOURNAL FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERS
Click on an exam title to access the CE activity. Activities are active for 2 years from the first date of publication.
Activating Your Subscription
If you are a journal subscriber but have not activated your online subscription, you will be required to activate it upon successful completion of an exam in order to receive your Certificate of Credit.
Overall objective
Continuing education learning activities are designed to augment the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of nurses and therefore enrich the nurses’ contributions to quality health care.
Target Audience
These activities are designed for nurses and nurse practitioners.
ABOUT OUR NEW EXAM PROCESS FAQs If you had a previous account on our old system and have completed online CE activities before:
CLICK on an exam title of interest from the list below.
At the next screen, if you have an account with access to the journal content on this site, LOGIN to that account with your existing Username and Password and skip to Step 4. If you do not, please REGISTER.
Click CONTINUE on the registration confirmation page to pass through to the new CE site.
Click CONTINUE to complete the one-time CE profile and then SAVE.
On the next screen, when prompted to import your CE history from our old system. Click YES and provide your username and password from our old system. Once the initial import process is completed, you will have the opportunity to import additional subscriptions and certificates. If you had more than one account in our old system, you should continue to input the User Names and Passwords of any and all accounts until all records have been imported.NOTE: You must import to retain access to all of your past subscriptions, exam history and certificates. You will not be askedor given this opportunity again.
Click CONTINUE to take the exam.
If you are a new user and have not completed online CE activities with us before:
CLICK on an exam title of interest from the list below.
At the next screen, please REGISTER.
At the registration confirmation page, click CONTINUE to pass through to the new CE site.
Click CONTINUE again to complete the one-time CE profile and then SAVE.
Click CONTINUE to take the exam.
If you get a blank screen when clicking on an exam, you need to enable pop-ups in your browser:
Scroll to the top and click on the message regarding "pop-ups."
Agree to allow pop-ups (for this program only) and follow the additional prompts.
The exam will then appear.
If your browser is Safari, follow these steps to enable pop-ups : 1) open the Safari window; from the top menu click Safari; Unselect the option (if selected) - "Block Pop-Up Windows." NOTE: Enabling pop-ups for this CE activity will not enable pop-ups for any other applications.
Exam List for
The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
Click on an exam title to access an exam. You will be asked to verify your CE account. If you do not have a CE account you
will be asked to create one. Your CE account is different and separate from your Journal Subscription account.
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Nurse Practitioner Alternatives, Inc.
