The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing

“The copy of the form 990 will be provided, prior to its filing, to the full bcen certification board. A draft of the 990 will be distributed via e-mail to the bcen board requesting it be reviewed no later than a specific date. Any questions from the review will be submitted to staff who will follow up and reply to the entire board. A conference call may be scheduled with the board based on the volume and the nature of the questions.”

“All members of the board of directors, examination construction review committee members, item writers, and volunteers will submit a conflict of interest statement at the commencement of their term and annually thereafter. The bcen executive director will be responsible for securing each of the conflict of interest statements and for maintaining the file of same. In addition, at the beginning of each certification board meeting and finance committee meeting, each participant is separately asked if he/she has any new possible conflicts to disclose that have arisen since the original conflict of interest statement was filed.”

“Compensation review procedures for the executive director are determined by the bcen board of directors. The bcen board of directors utilized a benefits and compensation study published by the american society for association executives in 2017 as well as benchmarking data from the certification industry to determine the executive director's compensation the final compensation is approved by the bcen board of directors via vote.”

“Bcen's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, independent annual audit and form 990 are available upon request. Bcen's form 990 is also available to the public at www.guidestar.org.”