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Neonatal Nurse Practitioner - Board Certified

NCC national board certification for neonatal nurse practitioners, earned by successfully completing the NNP examination; the certification carries no state licensing authority.

Licensing authority: National Certification Corporation · Application information

Initial by examination
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Examination
Applicability
The current official NNP page and its currently adopted 2026 materials support the evaluation date. Later announced five-year/750-hour changes are not applied as current eligibility and do not define a new examination version. No official start or end date for the current exam version, credential type or route is published in these sources.
Eligibility Alternatives
[{"documentation":"Upload licensure verification, diploma and registrar-issued final transcript; post-master's applicants also upload their completion certificate, subject to the catalog's special-documentation provisions.","education":"Successful completion of an accredited graduate NNP program meeting NCC requirements, at master's, DNP or post-master's level; certificate-prepared applicants are not accepted. NCC program requirements include the applicable recognized accreditation, at least one academic year, at least 200 didactic hours and 600 direct-patient-care clinical hours, curriculum reflecting the NNP examination, and program-director educational-preparation documentation.","licensure":"Current, active, unencumbered U.S. nursing or advanced practice nursing licensure; qualifying Canadian licensure is accepted under NCC's stated accredited-program conditions.","population":"Standard initial applicants","timing":"Take the examination within eight years of program graduation under the current rule; graduates of an approved CASN-accredited Canadian NNP program must have completed that program after January 1, 2026."},{"education":"Graduated from a program NCC recognized at graduation and hold the relevant master's, post-master's or doctoral preparation.","educationalConditions":"Complete ACP Part 1: physical-assessment and pathophysiology educational tests, the continuing competency assessment, and the CE modules assigned by the resulting plan; required modules must be passed. These are the program's educational conditions, not additional certification identities in this national-examination submission.","population":"Never previously NCC-certified NNP applicants beyond the eight-year graduation limit, using ACP","practiceAndAuthority":"At least 2080 hours in the NNP role during the preceding three years, advanced-practice licensure and current prescriptive authority in the state of employment; official employer, license, degree, prior-program-recognition and prescriptive-authority documentation is required.","timing":"Complete the program and obtain eligibility within six months; take the current NNP certification exam in the supplied 90-day window. ACP does not guarantee certification-exam passage and has its own attempt/retake restrictions."}]
Scope
Initial NNP certification only; all applicants must satisfy the applicable eligibility alternative and successfully complete the same current NNP certification examination.

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Examination

Provider
National Certification Corporation; AMP/PSI provides examination delivery and scheduling.
Format
Computer-based multiple-choice examination at a test center or by live remote proctoring; three options with one correct answer.
Exam questions
Total questions: 175; Scored questions: 150; Unscored questions: 25; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Time limit
3 hours
Passing score
Criterion-referenced ability standard; no set percentage passing level is published.
Exam fee
USD 325, including a non-refundable USD 50 application fee.
Examination outline
  • General Assessment (15%)
    • Maternal History affecting the Newborn
    • Neonatal
    • Family Integration
    • Discharge Preparation and Follow-up Care
  • General Management (19%)
    • Thermoregulation
    • Resuscitation and Stabilization
    • Growth and Nutrition
    • Fluids and Electrolytes
  • Pharmacology (9%)
    • Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
    • Common Drug Therapies
  • Embryology, Physiology, Pathophysiology and Systems Management (54%)
    • Cardiac
    • Respiratory
    • Gastrointestinal
    • Renal/Genitourinary
    • Metabolic/Endocrine
    • Hematopoietic
    • Infectious Diseases
    • Musculoskeletal
    • Integumentary
    • Genetics
    • Neurological
    • Ears, Eyes, Nose, and Throat
  • Professional Issues (3%)
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