2024 Continuing Competence Program (CCP) Audit
NSCN’s Continuing Competence Program (CCP) Audit will return in February 2024.
The CCP is a regulatory program and quality assurance mechanism to guide nurses in facilitating their continuing competence. Every nurse in Nova Scotia is required to complete the CCP requirements as part of their annual licensure, regardless of their employment status. The CCP provides a level of assurance to the public that nurses are continuously meeting their professional practice standards, which helps contribute to our mandate of public protection.
As part of the CCP all nurses are required to complete a self-assessment, develop a professional growth plan, reflect on their plan and participate in the audit process if selected.
NSCN will notify all registrants on Friday, February 16, 2024, if they have been selected to participate in the audit process. Those randomly selected nurses will have 60 days to participate in the audit process.
Resources and tools will be available to help you meet these CCP requirements.
Happy Holidays from NSCN!
The NSCN Board and staff wish you and your loved ones a happy holiday season and a safe and joyful New Year!
NSCN will be closed on December 22 starting at noon. The office will also be closed December 25-26 and January 1 in lieu of the statutory holidays. Staff will be checking email and phone messages on December 27-28 and until noon on December 29. Urgent requests will be addressed as quickly as possible. The NSCN physical office will re-open on Tuesday, January 2. Thank you and happy holidays!
Other Important Information
- Check out the latest December 2023 summary update on the Nurse Practitioner Regulation Framework Implementation Plan Project (NPR-FIPP).
- Read the Nurses Floating to Other Units Practice Scenario to understand responsibilities around floating to other nursing units.
- December’s practice support tool is the Duty to Provide Care Practice Guideline. The duty to provide care is a nurse’s ethical, legal and professional obligation to provide clients with safe, competent, compassionate and ethical nursing services.
- Did you know NSCN has a public directory on our website called Search for a Nurse? You can use this tool to confirm that a nurse is licensed by searching a nurse’s name or registration number.
- Watch our Fitness to Practise & Incapacity Online Education Module, which helps nurses understand what fitness to practise and incapacity is, the fitness to practise process, and professional obligations related to incapacity and fitness to practise.
- The holiday season can be challenging for individuals in recovery or those experiencing problematic substance use (PSU). Our Problematic Substance Use practice support tools help nurses, co-workers and managers understand their accountabilities when a nurse is experiencing PSU.
- The NSCN Board has approved the Canadian Council for Practical Nurse Regulators’ (CCPNR) ‘Code of Ethics for Licensed Practical Nurses’ to be adopted effective January 2, 2024.
- Get involved in your profession! NSCN is seeking one active-practising LPN in good standing to join the 2024 program review team.
