To search for the computer-based exam location nearest you, use our test center directory. Applications will be accepted at anytime.

The certification exams listed below are administered as computer-based tests. This means you can apply all year and test during a 90-day window at a time and location convenient to you. Exam scores are available immediately upon completion of the computer-based test. The links below will take you directly to the exam applications.

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (formerly Med-Surg)
• Adult Nurse Practitioner
• Adult Psychiatric & Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Adult Psychiatric & Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
• Cardiac Vascular Nurse
• Case Management Nurse
• Child/ Adolescent Psychiatric & Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Diabetes Management, Advanced
• Family Nurse Practitioner
• Family Psychiatric & Mental Health Nurse Pracititioner
• Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Gerontological Nurse
• Gerontological Nurse Practitioner
• Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Alternative Criteria
• Informatics Nurse
• Medical-Surgical Nurse
• Nurse Executive (formerly Nursing Administration)
• Nurse Executive, Advanced (formerly Nursing Administration, Advanced)
• Nursing Professional Development
• Pain Management
• Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
• Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse

New Computer-Based Exam Launch Schedule
Candidates applying to take these new computer-based exams (below) can expect to receive Authorization to Test letters shortly before the dates listed. Candidates are advised to study for the exams so that they are prepared to test sometime during the three months following the exam launch date.