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BECOMING A CERTIFIED NURSE LIFE CARE PLANNER
The Certified Nurse Life Care Planner certification exam was first offered in 1999. Since 2003, the Certified Nurse Life Care Planner Certification Board (CNLCPCB) provides oversight of the certification exam for Nurse Life Care Planners. A passing score on the certification exam allows a Registered Nurse to utilize the designation of Certified Nurse Life Care Planner (CNLCP). The CNLCP credential is renewed every five years with sixty proven continuing education credits. The exam is specific to the field of nursing in that the nursing process, nursing diagnosis, anatomy and physiology as well as nursing care needs are incorporated into the exam questions.
Criteria for sitting for Nurse Life Care Planner certification exam includes:
- Licensed Registered Nurse for at least five years.
- RN license must be active without restrictions.
- RN experience must include at least two years of full time or the equivalent (4,000 hours) of case
management experience or the equivalent in nursing demonstrating experience in the continuum of care.
- Five hundred hours of life care planning experience within two years of application OR a minimum of sixty
continuing education units or its equivalent in contact hours specific to life care planning from a university or certificate course. Demonstrated experience in Medicare Set-Aside Allocations is eligible for a maximum of one hundred hours towards the five hundred hours of life care planning experience.
Effective 2008, candidates will be required to submit a sample life care plan for peer review or proof that
completion of a life care plan occurred during an approved life care planning course. .
Recognized university or certificate courses in life care planning include:
Canadian Institute of Life Care Planners
Capital University Law School
Kaplan University
Kelynco
University of Florida
The certification examination for Nurse Life Care Planners is administered for the CNLCPCB by the Professional Testing Corporation (PTC), 1350 Broadway, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10018, (212) 356-0660, www.ptcny.com.
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