Previously Asked Questions

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Hi, I am an NP and opened up my own small WOC business. For PGP- I placed this under the "Establish a WOC Nursing Service." Does this sound correct? Thanks, Morgan Womble

Question:
first-time applicant. ive been an RN case manager full time and have been performing/managing wound care patients in home health setting for 4 years. this includes post-op patients, pressure ulcers/unstageable wounds/dtis, wound vacs, foley catheters, ostomies, diabetic ulcers, etc. Does that suffice as clinical hours in the field necessary to take the wocn course for certification?

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do you have to have an PA or a Dr over you to be able to have the feet certification? Or are you able to do it without a physican over you?

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Hi. Clarification please. If precepting a total of 20 different RNs for 3 hours a day, 2 RNs each time over a 9 month period, once a week, for a total of 60 hours, would that be 60 hours divided by 10 to yield 30 points, or would it be only 1/2 that because it was 2 each time together? Thank you.

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Hello, are there any nurses around Santa Clara, CA that would be interested in teaching a wound care session at the California Nursing Student Association convention that takes place In November.

Answered July 22, 2024
Hello, The WOCNCB does not have this type of service. You may want to use our social media links to reach others. There is also the WOCN Society's website, www.wocn.org that may have resources.

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I am interested in pursuing the PGP route for recertification of wound certification. As a member of my local WOCN Society chapter, how would meeting attendance count? Also, I precept students in my acute care organization but do not accrue additional pay. I volunteer to precept nursing students. Would this count as well?

Answered July 17, 2024
There are not PGP portfolio points for attending chapter meetings. If you were appointed to a chapter Committee, such as a one-year term on a "Marketing Committee" or other similar, and you volunteered your time to be on that committee, you would earn points per year from Category 3 as Member of a Local Committee, for 10 points per year served on the committee. There are points for any precepting you do, also in Category 3, worth 5 points for each 10 hours.

Question:
I am applying for recertification for the Certified Foot Care Nurse Certification but the application has my old name. How can I change this on the application? It will not let me change it and only allows a place for my maiden name.

Answered July 17, 2024
You can contact our testing agency to request they do your name change, and you would also need to attach a legal document to the exam application showing the old/new information, such as marriage license. You can reach our testing agency, Meazure Learning at: candidatesupport@meazurelearning.com or (919) 572-6880.

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Greetings wocncb board. I asked for an extension back in. I believe it was January due to the fact that I found my husband deceased on Christmas Day. I just found out that I may have vulvular cancer. I scheduled for Wednesday but I have a feeling I'm going to fail these tests just with everything that's going on. Can we take things? Also, may I please ask your suggestions and what I might do.

Answered July 16, 2024
You may email us directly regarding your credentials at: info@wocncb.org

Question:
What is the difference between specialty and CEU? I enter either specialty or PP and CEU# are listed. Then the numbers of points do not align with the requirements. Hereto, in gleaning PP from volunteer both WOCN ventures & other wound foot care related projects the number is greater than 40, so find I have to delete points earned. What am I doing incorrectly? Thanks.. sorry have spent hours and hours on this trying to meet the system requirements

Answered July 15, 2024
Within the portfolio, you are to identify each activity/project/CE entered and included - as to whether each item relates to the Specialty or whether it relates to Professional Practice. In other words, how does the item's content relate to the clinical Specialty (or not). Then, when you are using CE's and if they pertain to the clinical Specialty, they should be marked as "Specialty" (using the Specialty checkbox). Keeping all this in mind, for your entire portfolio must contain at least 80 points (but no more than 90) -- and at least half of the 80 total must pertain to the Specialty, although the entire portfolio could relate to the specialty. Then, for just the CE portion itself, you must have at least 10 of the CE deemed as pertaining to the specialty. You are allowed to have up to 40 CE total in a portfolio. When the CE does pertain to "Professional Practice" topics (such as 'legal issues' for example) you are Limited to 10 CE that pertain to Professional Practice topics. You will see within your PGP account, a listing of your total portfolio points, a listing of how many of these are marked as pertaining to the Specialty, a listing of how many of the portfolio points pertain to Professional Practice topics, etc. It is a summary to list how your points are earmarked. If you have additional questions, please contact us directly.

Question:
Is there a max amount of points you can receive for precepting over the 5 year period? Or do you just have to at least have a minimum of 10 hours?

Answered July 15, 2024
There is no minimum or maximum for the precepting points. The point value for your precepting is 5 points for each 10 hours.