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Our mission is to enhance professional care for people's health across the lifespan through specialty nursing credentials.
NPCC is an organization of credentialed nurses dedicated to the offering of professional advancement through credentialing. The Board and Committee members are listed below.
NPCC reviews qualifications for credentialing of a variety of nurse specialties. Currently, we are accepting applications for the Clinical Genetic Nurse (CGN) and Advanced Clinical Genetic Nurse (ACGN) credentials.
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Nancy Ledbetter, CNS ACGN AOCNS
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Salem Health Cancer Institute
Salem, OR
Stacy Hines-Dowell, DNP FNP-BC AGN-BC
Advanced Practice Nurse
St. Jude Children Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
Tammy McKamie, MSN OCN ACGN
Cancer Genetics Educator
Christus St. Michael
Texarkana, TX
Lori S. Farmer, ARNP MSN MS AGN-BC
Advanced Genetics Nurse - Board Certified
Gulf Breeze, FL
Sue Montgomery, BSN OCN CGN
Genetic Nurse Navigator
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA
Tinamarie Bauman, APN ACGN ARNP
System Director
Nursing Clinical Genetics
AMITA Health
Alexian Brothers Cancer Institute
Elk Grove Village, IL
Brigette Serfaty, Pharm D BCNP, Dip-ACLM
Associate Professor, Director Nuclear Education Online
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR
Julie Eggert PhD, GNP, ACGN, AOCN-Emeritus, FAAN
Clemson University School of Nursing Professor Emeritus
Formerly Genetics Nurse Practitioner St Francis Bon-Secours Cancer Center Greenville, SC
NPCC is dedicated to offering credentialing of a variety of nurse specialties. Currently, the NPCC focus is on applications from nurses who provide services to patients with inherited disease in a variety of specialty patient care areas such as Oncology, Cardiology, Neurology, and Pediatrics
History of NPCC
NPCC is an organization of credentialed nurses dedicated to the offering of professional advancement through credentialing.
This is the history of the organization:
Fall of 2017, the professional nurse group previously credentialing new applications discontinued their program for the nurse specialty in genetics/genomics
October 2017—June 2019, a group of nurses from International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG) recognized the need to support another entity to provide a means for Genetic Nurse credentialing.
· Call for expert genomics nurse volunteers to develop a new organization, separate from ISONG, to provide genomic nurse credentialing.
· 21 volunteer nurses sanctioned by ISONG, worked to develop the Nurse Portfolio Credentialing Commission (NPCC).
· Seven nurses accepted invitation to be initial members of the NPCC Board of Directors.
- One consultant member, previously Executive Director of the Genetics Nursing Credentialing Commission (GNCC) joined the work group.
- All volunteers represented diverse
- geographic location
- employment position
- employers
- number of years in nursing
- number of years in genomics nursing
- number of years certified/credentialed in the specialty
- academic preparation
- certification credentials
June 2019, Tax exempt status awarded. EIN is 83-3210853
July 2019, Volunteer group developed the portfolio assessment program for the NPCC.
August 2019, Initial volunteer group of credentialed nurses chosen as portfolio reviewers based on expertise and longevity of genetics specialty practice
- Participated in beta testing
- inter-rater reliability and validity determined.
December 2, 2019 www.nurseportfolio.org and portfolio submission for credentialing went live.
April 15, 2020 First group of specialty nurses, genetic/genomics, credentialed as ACGN. Investigating the possibility of credentialing other nurse specialty groups.