West Virginia Nurse Informatics Certification - WV

By Allison Skoglind, allied health world contributing writer
Published: February, 22 2010

To receive West Virginia nursing informatics certification, health care professionals must contact the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) via phone, mail or website and obtain an “Informatics Nursing Certification Application” form.

This form will request the following:

1. Personal identifying information
2. Current employment details
3. Education and work experience eligibility qualifications including two years of experience as a registered nurse and 2,000 hours of nursing informatics practice or 1,000 hours of nursing informatics practice plus 12 academic credits from an approved graduate nursing informatics program or graduation from a program in nursing informatics consisting of at least 200 hours of supervised practical training
4. Documentation showing the completion of 30 hours of continuing education in nurse informatics activities
5. Transcripts from the formal education program graduated from, copy of RN license, and copy of professional membership card (if applicable)
6. Initial certification fee ($390 non-members, $340 ANI members, $270 ANA members)

If the ANCC approves the certification application, the applicant can then sit for a national competency examination in nursing informatics. If examination is successfully passed, the ANCC will issue a nursing informatics certificate valid for five years.

ANCC
P.O. Box 791333
Baltimore, Maryland 21279
(800) 284-2378