Check out the timestamps below to help you navigate through the many topics we discussed.
On This Episode:
We’ve seen and heard a lot of questions about the new Maintaining Anesthesia Certification (MAC) Program from the NBCRNA so we’re going to tackle as many of those as we can head-on with incoming president Garry Brydges, PhD, DNP, MBA, CRNA, ACNP-BC, FAAN. This innovative four-year program is designed to streamline credentialing and reflect CRNA's commitment to continuous improvement in safe, quality patient care, and we’ll discuss all of the details today.
We’ll break down the new four-year MAC program, highlighting its three key components and explaining the testing process in detail. Plus, we’ll address the common concerns and misconceptions about the program so there’s a lot of great information in this episode.
As Garry recommends throughout the episode, CRNAs should log into their account on NBCRNA.com to see the accurate timelines and information for their profile.
Here’s some of what we discuss in this episode:
- The history of the CPC program and all of the dialogue surrounding it at the beginning.
- What is the role of the Board of Nursing compared to the NBCRNA?
- Why do the modules go away?
- What can you expect from the questions and how are they evaluating scores?
- Why do they want to know how confident you are in answers?
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"The focus of the NBCRNA and the mission is really to protect the public. And so that's where the outward facing component of NBCRNA is in. So we know that every single person that has gone through the training and that wears those four initials on their chest, that the public sees it as a quality credential because of how not only how we're trained, but also how our ongoing lifelong learning is."
- Garry Brydges, PhD, DNP, MBA, CRNA, ACNP-BC, FAAN
