About ANA Online Independent Study Modules

ANA is pleased to offer these online continuing education independent study modules (ISMs) to nurses who are interested in broadening their skills, knowledge, and abilities in the changing field of health care. By completing these ISMs, nurses will be able to:

• Earn continuing nursing education contact hours.

• Meet mandatory requirements for license renewal, certification, or promotion in their workplace.

• Pursue their career goals within the profession.

ANA's Mission for Continuing Nursing Education and Professional Development

ANA's mission: ANA and Nurses: A lifelong partnership for professional learning.

The planning, implementation, and evaluation of ANA's Continuing Nursing Education activities are guided by the following:

• ANA's Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Professional Development (2002R)

  The American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation Manual for Accreditation of Continuing Nursing Education 2006

• ANA's Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretative Statements (2001)

According to ANA's Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Professional Development, "Nursing professional development is a life-long process of active participation by nurses in learning activities that assist in developing and maintaining their continuing competence, enhancing their professional practice, and supporting achievement of their career goals."

Nursing professional development builds on the basic education and experience of nurses throughout their professional careers for the ultimate goal of ensuring the quality of health care to the public. Although professional nurses remain ultimately responsible for their ongoing professional development, ANA, as the professional association and a provider of continuing nursing education, shares in this responsibility of providing continuing education activities that assist professional nurses in accomplishing this task.

The American Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP6178.

ANA's Goals for the Independent Study Modules (ISM)

1. To enable the participants to learn and retain knowledge by selecting this method of participation through completion of the ISM at their own pace, within their own time frame, and at the computer location of their own choice.

2. To engage the participants more fully through:
   • Self-testing and immediate correction of the test.
   • Providing immediate feedback by explaining the rationale for the correct response to each test question.
   • Permitting re-reading of the article and re-taking the test as many times as necessary until a pass grade of 75% or more is achieved.
   • Requesting their evaluation of the ISM.

3. To immediately provide the Continuing Nursing Education Attendance and Contact Hour Certificate to participants who successfully complete the ISM so they can meet their professional goals and the requirements of their employer, professional association, and credentialing and licensing boards.

4. To assure that the content of the ISM is current, relevant, and important to nursing as a profession, individual nurses in different practice roles, specialties, and settings, and to ANA.

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