March 2025

MARCH 2025

Unshakeable confidence in nursing and midwifery care

Time is running out—renew today

To maintain your registration with BCCNM, you must complete the online renewal application and pay the full renewal fee before Monday, March 31, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. PT.

RENEW

Changes to the practice hours requirement

Effective immediately, BCCNM has made changes to the practice hours requirement to provide flexibility to practising registrants. NPs can now complete 300 hours in the year preceding renewal or meet the existing requirement of 900 hours total over five years.

Cynthia Johansen appointed Deputy Minister of Health

Cynthia Johansen, BCCNM’s Registrar & CEO, will be leaving the college to serve as Deputy Minister of Health with the B.C. provincial government. Her last day with the college is Tuesday, April 1.

Revisions to NP scope of practice

The BCCNM board approved revisions to the Nurse Practitioners Scope of Practice: Advanced Procedures and Activities – Blood and Blood Products limits and conditions. Updates are to align with the most up-to-date additional education offered for NPs. Effective March 31, 2025.

Piloting MCC 360 for colleague and client feedback

This year, BCCNM is piloting MCC 360, a tool for nurse practitioners and midwives to gather feedback from colleagues and clients. Registrants selected to participate will be contacted later this month.

Survey opportunity

Revisions to delegation standard

Your feedback will help inform the revision of the RN, RPN, and NP practice standard BCCNM: Delegation to Unregulated Care Providers, and to determine the new delegation standards for LPNs. This survey will take 15 minutes to complete and closes on March 25.

TAKE SURVEY

Exam Blueprint for new NP exam now available

The Exam Blueprint for the new Canadian Nurse Practitioner Licensure Exam (CNPLE) is now available. The Exam Blueprint is an important step in the development of the new exam, which is required to implement a new model to consistently regulate NPs across Canada.

Independent Rights Advice Service info session recording

Learn about the new service that has been implemented in B.C. to support Mental Health Act patient rights through this 1-hour webinar session recording. For more information about the Independent Rights Advice Service, visit irasbc.ca.

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