{"id":628,"date":"2024-04-08T20:26:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T00:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=628"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T00:26:53","slug":"6-4-1","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/chapter\/6-4-1\/","title":{"raw":"6.4.1 Credentialing","rendered":"6.4.1 Credentialing"},"content":{"raw":"All Canadian provinces and territories have established legislation for the NP role. Provincial and territorial nursing regulatory bodies are authorized to:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Set the entry-to-practice competencies<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Standards of practice<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Standards for approval of educational curriculums<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Licensure requirements for NPs[footnote]Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing, 2012[\/footnote]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThe following streams of NP registration exist in Canada:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Adult<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Paediatrics, and<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Family\/All Ages (also referred to as Primary Health Care)[footnote]Ontario Hospital Association, 2021[\/footnote]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nSome jurisdictions also register NPs in Neonatology, either as a distinct stream or as part of the Paediatrics group. Qu\u00e9bec registers four categories of NPs: First Line of Care (Primary Care), Neonatology, Cardiology, and Nephrology.\u00a0NPs can also be credentialed within the hospital systems in their jurisdictions. Hospital credentialing is quite hospital\/site specific and will require work at the local level by the interested NP.[footnote]null[\/footnote]","rendered":"<p>All Canadian provinces and territories have established legislation for the NP role. Provincial and territorial nursing regulatory bodies are authorized to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set the entry-to-practice competencies<\/li>\n<li>Standards of practice<\/li>\n<li>Standards for approval of educational curriculums<\/li>\n<li>Licensure requirements for NPs<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing, 2012\" id=\"return-footnote-628-1\" href=\"#footnote-628-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following streams of NP registration exist in Canada:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adult<\/li>\n<li>Paediatrics, and<\/li>\n<li>Family\/All Ages (also referred to as Primary Health Care)<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Ontario Hospital Association, 2021\" id=\"return-footnote-628-2\" href=\"#footnote-628-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some jurisdictions also register NPs in Neonatology, either as a distinct stream or as part of the Paediatrics group. Qu\u00e9bec registers four categories of NPs: First Line of Care (Primary Care), Neonatology, Cardiology, and Nephrology.\u00a0NPs can also be credentialed within the hospital systems in their jurisdictions. Hospital credentialing is quite hospital\/site specific and will require work at the local level by the interested NP.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"null\" id=\"return-footnote-628-3\" href=\"#footnote-628-3\" aria-label=\"Footnote 3\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-628-1\">Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing, 2012 <a href=\"#return-footnote-628-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-628-2\">Ontario Hospital Association, 2021 <a href=\"#return-footnote-628-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-628-3\">null <a href=\"#return-footnote-628-3\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 3\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":517,"menu_order":18,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-628","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":61,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/628\/revisions\/629"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/61"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/628\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}