2012 NHIA Annual Conference & Exposition

Continuing Education Information

All 2012 NHIA Annual Conference Education Programs will be accredited for both pharmacy and nursing continuing education, unless otherwise noted—and will provide up to 28.5 total contact hours (2.85 CEUs) of continuing education credit when all events (including pre-conference programming) are attended and an NHIA Continuing Education Packet has been fully completed/submitted.

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians

An application is being made for continuing pharmacy education credit to the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), which is approved by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing education.

Nursing

This activity has been submitted to the Virginia Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. The Virginia Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Attention Nurses who hold the Certified Registered Nurse Infusion (CRNI®) nursing credential:

Educational sessions denoted throughout this brochure by a symbol have been approved by the Infusion Nursing Credentialing Corporation (INCC) to provide CRNI® recertification units. Nurses interested in receiving five (5) CRNI® recertification units must attend at least five of the nine designated sessions. No partial credit can be awarded. Additional information about applying for the CRNI® recertification units will be provided in the Conference Evaluation Packet received on-site at Registration.

Attention Nurses who hold the Vascular Access Board Certified (VA-BC) nursing credential:

Educational programming offered at the 2012 NHIA Conference & Exposition that relates to vascular access can be submitted to the Vascular Access Certification Corporation (VACC) for approval toward the continuing education requirement needed to re-certify for the VA-BC credential. Additional information regarding how to submit continuing education hours for the VA-BC credential can be found in the VACC Recertification Candidate Handbook, available at: www.vacert.org