Continuing Competency Assessment - CCA

Recognizing Professional Commitment to Midwifery

Established February 1986, the CCA Program is a voluntary comprehensive recognition program developed to provide Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) and Certified Midwives (CMs) with an opportunity to demonstrate competency in the provision of health care to women, newborns and their families.

*The criteria used for evaluating a non-research Chapter in a text book, or an original book are as follows:
1. Subject matter: Relevant to the practice of midwifery - clinical, education,    administration, or research.
2. Literature review: Reflects a comprehensive review of the current literature.
3. Presentation: Reflects organization, style, grammatical structure, and clarity.

*adapted with permission from American Association of Nurse-Anesthetists (AANA) documents

Credit for precepting toward CCA requirements (approved Dec. 2005)
The Board of Directors is pleased to announce that CCA (Continuing Competency Assessment) participants can now receive credit for time spent precepting midwifery students.  The BOD also extends a sincere thank you to all preceptors for their continuing commitment to midwifery education and to the ACNM Division of Education CCA Section, Preceptor Development and Support Section and staff for their work in developing and implementing this new option.

CCA participants can report up to the equivalent of 1.0 CEU (10 contact hours) for time spent precepting a student nurse-midwife (SNM) or student midwife (SM).  A section has been added to the Self Reporting Form under the heading "Acceptable Alternatives in Lieu of CEU" where time spent precepting can be calculated and recorded.

Questions? Please contact Melinda Bush.