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Specialty Code Assignment By Certification Area

Certification Specialty Codes

  1. Obstetrics – Antepartum (include fetal assessment)
  2. Obstetrics – Intrapartum
  3. Obstetrics- High Risk
  4. Gynecology
  5. Infertility, Reproductive Endocrinology
  6. Menopause
  7. Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing
  8. Low Risk Neonatal Nursing
  9. Postpartum Assessment, Care & Management of Complications
  10. Newborn Assessment, Care & Management of Complications
  11. EFM
  12. Breastfeeding
  13. Home Care/Follow up Care
  14. Telephone Nursing
  15. Primary Care
  16. Maternal Risk Factors Affecting the Newborn
  17. Pharmacology
  18. Physical Assessment, Physiology and Diagnostic and Laboratory Evaluation
  19. Universal Hours, (includes legal and ethical issues, research, resuscitation and stabilization and HIV
  20. Other Hours (Nursing related)
  21. NCC Pretest Participant
  22. NCC Item Writer
  23. NCC Self Assessment Reviewer or Author
  24. Presenter of CE course or preceptor
  25. Author of a book or article
  26. NCC Self Assessment User

Certification and Specialty Codes -                                                     

Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner     

1, 4 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

Inpatient Obstetric Nursing                     

1, 2, 3, 8 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19

Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing                    

1, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner                            

1, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19

Low Risk Neonatal Nursing                                

1, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19

Maternal Newborn Nursing                              

1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19

Telephone Nursing                                              

1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility     

1,4, 5, 6, 16, 18, 19

Ambulatory Women’s Health Care                 

1, 4 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

High Risk Obstetric Nursing                             

1, 2, 3, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19

ANA-MCH/NCC Joint Certification                  

1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19