Impact of direct patient care clinical hours on national nurse practitioner certification pass rates
Higher DPCC hours are associated with improved certification examination performance. These findings provide support for a minimum of 750 DPCC hours.
Authors
- Bridgitte Gourley
- Bo Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4783-7310)
- Marcy Ainslie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-0079)
- Susan W. Buchholz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6311-9709)
- Mary Beth Bigley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1658-8052)
- Shannon Idzik
- Kelly Grover
Institutions
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- University of New Hampshire (US)
- Towson University (US)
- University of Baltimore (US)
- Michigan State University (US)
- American Association of Nurse Practitioners (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
- Published
- 2026-03-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/jxx.0000000000001261
- Primary Topic
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00