Planning an Educational Activity
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
The Accredited Provider Program Director must be directly involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating an educational activity. As an accredited provider we cannot approve educational activities that have been planned by other organizations or without the involvement of the Accredited Provider Program Director.
IMPORTANT: Provider Units are responsible for developing individual education activities and awarding contact hours to nurses for use in fulfilling their own goals for professional development, licensure, and certification. Each educational activity is led by a Nurse Planner in collaboration with at least one other planner. Contact hours may not be awarded for CNE activities developed without the direct involvement of a Nurse Planner. Provider Units may jointly provide activities with other non-commercial interest organizations. Provider Units may not approve educational activities that have been planned by other organizations or individuals or without the involvement of a Provider Unit Nurse Planner. Failure to comply with ANCC accreditation criteria can result in probation, suspension, and revocation (ANCC Primary Accreditation Provider Application Manual, Current Edition, p. 11).
We can help you plan, implement and evaluate a continuing education (CE) activity. Planning begins with identifying when CE might be a desired intervention to address a change that has been made to a standard of care, a problem that exists in practice, or an opportunity for improvement. UTHSA HOP Policy on CE Events
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If you have a program that needs approval and has already been put together, you can reach out to an approver for continuing education:
Ohio Nurses Association (approver of nursing continuing education)
Montana Nurses Association (approver of nursing continuing education)
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