Certification is awarded to individuals who meet eligibility criteria based on experience and who pass an examination covering a broad range of knowledge and skills relevant to their professional practice.

Those individuals who achieve ALNCCB certification can be recognized by a designation used after their names – LNCC. Once certified, nurses maintain their certification by re-certifying every five years. Candidates may re-certify either by retesting or by completing a specified program of continuing education.

The certification program is not designed to determine who is qualified or who shall engage in legal nurse consulting, but rather to promote a level of expertise and professionalism by documenting individual performance as measured against a predetermined level of knowledge about legal nurse consulting.

The LNCC program is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Specialty Nursing Certification (ABSNC), ABSNC accreditation means that certification programs have met high standards for testing.

2023 Certification Statistics

The number of candidates eligible to the LNCC in 2023 totaled 43 candidates. Of the 43 eligible only 41 candidates took the exam in 2023. 33 (80%) passed and received the LNCC designation.

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The Examination: There is one ALNCCB certification examination for RNs. The examination is based on role delineations -- surveys of practitioners, which define the scope of practice and the knowledge and skills required to function in the field. All examination items are written by certified individuals with expertise in the field of legal nurse consultants. ALNCCB and Prometric ensure that all items are reviewed for bias and sensitivity prior to assigning any items for scoring.

Test Items (Questions): Test items are reviewed, referenced and validated by the ALNCCB Item Writers Committee and, finally, edited by the testing company for construction, grammatical correctness and clarity. Examination Content: The LNCC examination each consist of 175 multiple-choice questions. Each question has four choices and one correct answer. Candidates have three hours to complete their examination.
The LNCC examination contains questions from ten major content areas: medical malpractice, personal injury, long term care litigation/elder law, product liability, toxic tort, worker’s compensation, risk management, life care planning, regulatory compliance, medicare set aside. All questions are directly related to the legal nurse consultant industry. More specific information regarding the content of the examinations is included in the Appendix of the Certification Handbook.

Certification Verification

ALNCCB does not publicly publish a registry of LNCCs. ALNCCB maintains secure record of all active and expired LNCCs. To verify your own LNCC status, or if you are an employer looking to verify the status of another individual's LNCC credential, please email info@aalnc.org and a member of our team will assist.

Exam Application & Fees

The LNCC® examination is offered twice each year, in the spring and fall, at test sites nationwide. The exam is offered via Computer Based Testing (CBT) and Live Remote Proctoring.

LNCC Exam Application Fees

• AALNC Member: $360
• Non-Member: $495

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ADA Accommodations/Requests:

ALNCCB and Prometric comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and strive to ensure that no individual with a disability is deprived of the opportunity to take the examination solely by reason of that disability. Prometric will provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. Accommodations will be granted for candidates that choose to take their exam at a test center or through remote proctoring, there may be situations where candidates will have to test at a center in order to receive the approved accommodations.

Reasonable accommodations provide candidates with disabilities a fair and equal opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and skill in the essential functions being assessed by the examination. Reasonable accommodations are decided based on the individual’ s specific request, disability, documentation submitted, and appropriateness of the request. Reasonable accommodations do not include steps that fundamentally alter the purpose or nature of the examination.

Requests for accommodation must be submitted in writing to ALNCCB no later than 30 days before the candidate’ s preferred testing date, and candidates must submit their scheduling request at least 30 days prior to their preferred test date. It is recommended that this documentation be submitted at least 45 days prior to the preferred testing date.

SMT/Prometric Exam Center Information

ALNCCB works with a testing company, SMT, /Prometric to offer the LNCC examination. SMT/Prometric staff members have extensive experience in the development and administration of certification and licensure examinations for nurses. By contract with the ALNCCB, SMT/Prometric provides examination development, administration, and application services for the LNCC examination. For more information on SMT/Prometric, please contact them at:

Schroeder Measurement Technologies, Inc.
Phone: 866-773-1114
Toll-Free: 727-738-8727
Email: SMT-OperationsTeam@prometric.com

For up to date information regarding an existing exam application, please check this website prior to reaching out to SMT Operations Team.

 

Examination Sites

To view a list of where upcoming examinations will be offered, please click here for the IQT sites, and click here for the Prometric test sites.

All IQT Testing sites are independently operated from Prometric and therefore they update their calendar on a month to month basis (most often at the beginning of each month). For this reason, we suggest not attempting to schedule your exam prior to one month before your exam in order to see the most up-to-date testing locations offered.

Prometric will provide you with your testing location' s address and driving directions with your test confirmation. Your test confirmation will be sent to you via email immediately after your appointment has been made.

Please reach out to info@aalnc.org with questions.

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