American Nurses Credentialing Center

Renee, I hate to interrupt you because Deanna

won't tell you this, but the ANCC just reaccredited our PTAP yesterday with distinction, and they actually called out the work that they've done in this interprofessional simulation as one of the best practices.

And it truly is because so many of our younger generation are less comfortable with that conflict and they're putting them in that situation.

They're saying, practice how you're going to manage this conflict and do it together.

And so I wrote the course.

It was accredited with distinction through ANCC.

I thought they would be coming in droves to learn.

Nope.

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Welcome to this week's episode.

We're going to be talking about preoperative exams.

And so I put my name in.

So I have been a commissioner and now I'm also past chair of the Commission on Pathway to Excellence with the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

I've served for eight years, actually, that my role ends this December.

So this is my last year on the commission, but it's been an amazing journey.

And we were able to work with our partners.

We are an improved provider of nursing continuing professional development through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

And so we were able to work through that process and ensure that we give.

So there's stackable micro learnings.

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Well, hello there.

This week's episode, I'm going to be talking about starting insulin therapy and type 2 diabetes.

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Welcome to this week's episode.

We're gonna be talking about COPD exacerbations.

So this is the hours of nurse coaching delivered inside of a single health system in a single year.

MedStar Health earned the inaug-inaugural ANCC Wellbeing Excellence Credential in May of 2025, one of the five health systems globally to do so.

They did not pilot a program.

They built a department and coached their own nurses.

The credential followed the outcomes.

They were able to reach the ANCC Wellbeing Excellence Credential, which is something that's being really pushed right now with how bad nursing morale is.

But these 1,100 hours were paid coaching hours for it to be coaching staff.

And the number one employer of nurse coaches in the country is the VA.