NCC offers the only OB, Antepartum and Maternal Newborn national certifications available. March 30, 2026

Learn more about these important certifications for perinatal nurses who provide care to hospitalized pregnant women, postpartum women, and newborns.

Earn your certification and validate your specialty expertise in caring for these vulnerable patients!


Inpatient Obstetric Nursing (RNC-OB) Certification:

Nationally accredited by the National Commission of Certifying Agencies (NCCA) and Magnet Approved!

The Inpatient Obstetric Nursing (RNC-OB®) certification is for obstetrical nurses who care for hospitalized pregnant women during the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn periods. 

RNC-OB® specialty knowledge includes fetal assessment, treatment, and management of pregnancy
complications, and an understanding of labor and birth, recovery, postpartum, and newborn care.

Earn your RNC-OB® certification today and join more than 72,500 of your nursing colleagues. 
[learn more or register]

View the complete content for the Inpatient Obstetric Nursing certification in the RNC-OB® Candidate Guide. 

Take a Preview Test! It will help you assess your readiness for RNC-OB® certification. Preview tests will familiarize you with the exam format and the questions cover the same content areas as the actual exam.

Inpatient Antepartum Nursing (RNC-IAP) Certification: 

Nationally accredited by the National Commission of Certifying Agencies (NCCA) and Magnet Approved!

The Inpatient Antepartum Nursing (RNC-IAP) is for nursing professionals who provide a coordinated approach to care, continued risk assessment, and psychosocial support to hospitalized pregnant women during the antepartum period.

RNC-IAP specialty knowledge includes maternal physiology and assessment, fetal physiology and assessment, and an understanding of obstetric complications, medical complications in pregnancy, and pharmacology.

Demonstrate your advanced knowledge of antepartum care with NCC's RNC-IAP certification! 
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View the complete content for the Inpatient Antepartum Nursing certification in the RNC-IAP Candidate Guide.

Take a Preview Test! It will help you assess your readiness for RNC-IAP certification. Preview tests will familiarize you with the exam format and the questions cover the same content areas as the actual exam.

Maternal Newborn Nursing (RNC-MNN®) Certification: 

Nationally accredited by the National Commission of Certifying Agencies (NCCA) and Magnet Approved!

The Maternal Newborn Nursing (RNC-MNN®) certification is for mother/baby nurses who provide care to the childbearing family from birth to six weeks within hospital, outpatient or community settings and can develop and implement an individualized plan of care for the childbearing family, by assessing their physical, psychological, and sociocultural status.

RNC-MNN® specialty knowledge includes pregnancy and birth risk factors, postpartum assessment,
management, education, and treatment of complications, in addition to newborn assessment, management, and treatment of complications.

Earn your RNC-MNN® certification today and join more than 21,500 of your nursing colleagues! 
[learn more or register]

View the complete content for the Maternal Newborn Nursing certification in the RNC-MNN Candidate Guide.

Take a Preview Test! It will help you assess your readiness for RNC-IAP certification. Preview tests will familiarize you with the exam format and the questions cover the same content areas as the actual exam.