Chief Credentialing Officer
Pediatric Nursing Certification Board
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Adele Foerster, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC/AC, ICE-CCP is the Chief Credentialing Officer for the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB) which provides specialty certification for more than 56,000 RNs and APRNs. She oversees exam development including job task research for all four PNCB certifications. Ms. Foerster also develops and directs strategic initiatives for PNCB’s robust portfolio of accredited continuing education products. She continues to guide a multi-year pioneering ethnographic research project assessing provider perceptions of RN/APRN continuing competence as well as specific competencies linked to PNP career evolution. A 1977 graduate of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing and the University of Maryland, Ms. Foerster served as an Army Nurse in pediatric settings until 1998 and earned a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Post-Master’s Certificate from Johns Hopkins University in 2000. Over the past four decades, her roles have included management, educator, and emergency department PNP as well as pediatric home care, research data collection, and faculty in the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Uniformed Services University. She has past affiliation with the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) for the study to derive a decision rule about use of CT with pediatric head injury. She has served PNCB since 2010.
What is happening to our pass rates? A discussion on trends and factors impacting fluctuations
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM MT