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On Sept. 26, 2007, Council approved to accept a number of exams for entry into the Extended Class. The College is offering some, but not all, of the exams. It also changed the exam for the NP-Primary Health Care certificate from the Ontario-specific Extended Class Registration Examination (ECRE) to the Canadian Nurses Association’s Canadian Nurse Practitioner Examination: Family All Ages exam.

Primary Health Care specialty certificate

• The Canadian Nurses Association: Canadian Nurse Practitioner Examination.
• The American Nurses Credentialing Center: Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination. The College is not negotiating to offer this exam in Ontario. This exam was approved to facilitate mobility for nurses from the U.S. as well as for Canadian nurses who passed the exam after Sept. 30, 2001.

Adult specialty certificate

• The American Nurses Credentialing Center: Adult Nurse Practitioner Examination.

Paediatrics specialty certificate

• The American Nurses Credentialing Center: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Examination.
• The National Certification Corporation: Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Certification (writes from 1994 and onward). The College is not negotiating to offer the NCC Neonatal NP exam in Ontario. To make arrangements to write this exam, contact NCC directly by clicking here or (312) 951-0207. Once you are notified that you have passed the exam, or if you’ve successfully completed this exam since 1994, please submit to the College the notarized results. Click here for the mailing address.
• The Pediatric Nursing Certification Board: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Certification Examination (writes from December 1998 and onward). The College is not negotiating to offer the PNCB exam in Ontario. This exam was approved to facilitate mobility for nurses from the U.S. as well as for Canadian nurses who have passed the exam. If you successfully completed this exam in or after December 1998, please submit to the College the notarized results. Click here for the mailing address.
• The Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec’s Certification Examination for Nurse Practitioners Specializing in Neonatology, taken in 2006 or later.

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