title: ANCC clarifies specialty criteria for CM credential.
abstract: The Washington, DC-based American Nurses Credentialing Center has revised its controversial eligibility requirements for the nursing case management credential. The revised requirements allow nurse case managers who lack a core specialty to take the examination if they already hold an active RN license and a baccalaureate degree in nursing, and have functioned as a registered nurse for 4,000 hours, with at least 2,000 of those hours as a nurse case manager within the past two years. An additional requirement is that, besides taking the nursing case management exam, those lacking a core specialty must also take and pass a 50-question test based on the American Nurses Association's Standards of Clinical Practice Nursing.
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000592:standards*; D003406:Credentialing; D003422:Critical Care / Q000592:standards; D004521:Educational Measurement; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D013044:Specialty Boards; D014481:United States