History
In 1966 The American Nursing Association amended its bylaws to allow the creation of certification boards for nurses in various areas of practice.
Two years later, the ANC's Nursing Practice Department published a paper promoting certification standards. From the ideas presented in this paper, the Congress for Nursing Practice drafted guidelines for the certification process in 1969. Within a few years, several nursing practice divisions had drafted certification processes based upon these guidelines.
In 1973 the ANA announced a national certification program for nursing practice. By 1974 the first certification examinations were administered.
Over the following seventeen years the ANA continued to expand its nursing credentialing exams to cover more areas of practice and administration. The ANA decided in 1990 to create the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a subsidiary non-profit corporation, through which it would sell its certification services and exams.
In 1999 the ANCC created an international branch of the organization in order to provide its services outside of the United States.
Primary Accreditation Established in 1974, Primary Accreditation recognizes organizations (or components of organizations) that offer high quality continuing education for nurses. This accreditation contributes to health care quality and professional nursing practice by defining standards for the development and delivery of continuing education and by providing a voluntary peer review process to assure compliance.
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