Contact Hour Process 2 | VUMC ANCC Accredited Provider Unit

Eligibility for Contact Hours

Activities are eligible to provide ANCC NCPD contact hours when the activity is designed to address a gap in knowledge, skill, and/or practice for the professional registered nurse. Content must be based on the best-available evidence and planned independently from the influence of an ineligible company.*

*An ineligible company is defined as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Click here for examples.

REQUEST FORM PROCESS

You must submit a contact hours request form. On an annual basis, a one-time request form will be required for all activities seeking to provide contact hours.
The request must be submitted 45 days prior to the proposed activity date.
It may take up to 5 business days to process your request.
The activity request is reviewed for eligibility by the Accredited Provider Program Director (APPD).
When the APPD deems the request eligible, a Nurse Planner from the Provider Unit will be assigned to your activity. All required documents must be completed prior to your activity date, ideally at least two weeks prior to the event. You will work with your assigned Nurse Planner to identify the deadlines. If there are additional dates to offer your activity beyond what was identified on your request form, you will need to communicate those directly to your assigned nurse planner. Late add-on dates or date changes (less than two weeks out) are not guaranteed to be awarded contact hours.