CCP Journey

Every year, more than 13,000 registered nurses in Manitoba embark on a mandated Continuing Competency Program, we call CCP. It is a comprehensive learning system that provides registered nurses and nurse practitioners with a framework to maintain standards, enhance practice, and promote high standards of knowledge to deliver safe, competent, and ethical care.  

The purpose of this page is to help you navigate your CCP journey.

Your journey into the Continuing Competency Program is about taking control to further your knowledge in continuing to deliver quality client care. It provides you with the opportunity to enhance your critical thinking, decision-making, and leadership skills. CCP also enables you to have the choice to decide what learning you want to take through this self-directed learning program. 

You can learn more about the requirements for this program here.

Your CCP Roadmap

Note, this section will change throughout the course of the year (sometimes monthly) to provide you with ongoing education on your annual requirements for the CCP. Please refer back this page to see if you are on the right track.

Creating a goal for your annual learning plan

Your Learning Goal must be self-directed, specific, relevant to your current practice, and must be attained by Certificate of Practice Renewal (October to Dec 1, 2024). Your goal statement should also identify why you want to learn or enhance this skill. Let’s have a look at what this means… 

Self-Directed:  

This is something you identify from your practice that you want to learn about or enhance your knowledge on. This goes above and beyond what is already required of you by… 

• your employer 
• your role  
• Practice Expectations 
• Entry Level Competencies 

Specific:  

Vague goals that do not clearly identify what you are learning do not meet criteria. It is important to drill down and identify exactly what you want to learn and why. 

Relevant to your current practice: 

You must be able to use your learning in your current practice. Selecting a goal that does not allow you to put it into your current practice, or the practice you will return to if you are on a leave of absence will not meet criteria. It needs to impact your current practice. 

Attained by Certificate of Practice Renewal: 

You must complete your learning activities and be able to meet your goal by the time you do your Certificate of Practice renewal for 2025. 

Keeping the above in mind, let’s look at a few goals… 

EXAMPLE GOAL 1: 

I want to keep up to date with changes to policies and procedures on my unit. 

• This is already a requirement of your role and employer and therefore is not self-directed. 
• Notice that it is also a vague goal; if this were a self-directed goal, the statement is too vague to know what the learning need is and would not meet criteria. 

How could adjustments be made so such a goal would meet criteria? 

• It would need to be self-directed. 
• It would need to be specific and clearly identify what the learning need/goal is. 

Consider if a new dressing product and procedure were being implemented at your place of employment and your facility provides you with some education. As this is required and you are being provided the education, “keeping up to date on this procedure” would not meet criteria, but if you were to ENHANCE your knowledge and understanding above what has been provided… 

I want to ENHANCE my knowledge on the use of dressing product “X” and its application to better identify wounds that would benefit from this product.  

• This goal would meet criteria as you are ENHANCING your current knowledge beyond what has already been provided and is expected = Self-Directed 

• You would meet this goal by searching out your own education on this product (perhaps their website, or a webinar that would provide you with more information than was provided by your facility orientation to the product). 

• This goal is specific  

• What is being done is clearly identified (enhancing your knowledge on the use and application of the product).  
• Why you are doing it is also clearly identified (to better identify wounds that would benefit from the dressing). 

• The goal can be used in your current role 

EXAMPLE GOAL 2: 

I want to become a mentor. 

• Being a mentor is required of us as part of our Practice Expectations and therefore not self-directed. 
• This is also a vague goal; there are many different layers to being a mentor; therefore, would not meet criteria even if it were not a practice expectation. Again, this goal is too vague to understand what the exact learning need is.

Let’s see how we can make this a goal that would meet criteria…. 

I want to ENHANCE my knowledge on active listening to improve my mentoring skills. 

• Although being a mentor is required of nurses, this is now self-directed as no one is requiring you to enhance your active listening skills, and you are seeking out the information to attain this knowledge. 
• The goal is specific  
• The learning need is clear to understand (enhance active listening skills)  
• Why this is important is also identified and understood (improve your mentoring skills). 
• The goal would also be relevant to current practice, as nurses are always mentoring (students, colleagues, and other members of the health care team).

CCP Review Information:

Each year, all RNs complete the CCP (jurisprudence, self-assessment, and learning plan). In addition to this, some are selected to participate in the CCP Review, which includes sharing your learning plan with the CCP team and participating in multi-source feedback. 

The CCP Review is a supportive process and not disciplinary in any nature. It is an opportunity to learn more about your practice as you receive feedback from both your clients and colleagues. 

This section of the CCP Journey page will be dedicated to sharing information about anything related to the CCP Review process. 

Current Information: 

Registrants requiring further action based on the multi-source feedback are in the process of arranging their competency-based interview or completing their reflective exercise. 

If you want to learn more about the multi-source feedback outcomes, review page 25 of the CCP Workbook. 

Notification emails will go out in July 2024 to those selected for this year’s CCP Review.

Achieving Your Annual Requirements: Attend an Information Session

We invite and encourage you to attend a CCP information session that will teach you the various parts of the CCP process. The Quality Practice team is offering one-hour virtual (Microsoft Teams) presentations, that will cover similar information but have different areas of focus. These presentations are organized this way to provide you with the choice to select the presentation type that is right for you! 

The information sessions you can choose from are listed below.  

To register for any of these information sessions, email ccp@crnm.mb.ca with Information Session in your subject line. In the email identify the title and date of the presentation you wish to attend. Once registered, a member of our Quality Practice team will be in contact, close to the session date, to confirm details on how to enter the information session.

Exemplary LPs

What makes a learning plan a great one?

Your self-directed learning is documented  every year in a learning plan which is the key requirement that you need to complete as part of your CCP journey. We have included real-life LP examples that were identified as exemplary from 2023 renewal, for your review.  

 Tip: To see how the College scores your completed LP, please review the rubric outlined in the CCP Workbook. 

 Take some time to read these LPs and see how they exceeded the criteria outlined by: 

• Identifying a clearly self-directed unique or innovative learning goal 
• Identifying learning activities that are clearly self-directed, relate to the goal and impact on the RN’s practice 
• Having an impact on practice that is well articulated and demonstrates that client care has been, or will be improved as a result of the learning 
• Having excellent flow throughout the LP 

If you would like to read more examples of LP plans, please visit here.

As a Quality Practice team, we are excited to guide you through your CCP journey. If you have any questions, our team can be contacted at the information below.