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 Home 5 Careers 5 Working Here 5 Professional Growth 5 CAPE CAPE PROGRAM Nursing Career Ladder The Clinical Advancement for Professional Excellence (CAPE) Program is a WVU Medicine system-wide clinical advancement program (clinical ladder) for hospital-based, direct-care registered nurses. Clinical advancement programs are designed to enhance professional development, provide a reward system for quality clinical performance, promote quality nursing, and improve job satisfaction. Search WVU Medicine Careers What does this mean? Search Provider/Faculty Careers Careers Career Areas Working Here Locations The Clinical Advancement for Professional Excellence (CAPE) Program CAPE is a nursing program designed to enrich professional development, provide a reward system for advancing clinical professional practice, promote quality nursing, and improve job satisfaction. This contemporary program, designed by nurses for nurses, is focused on rewarding, recognizing, retaining, and recruiting inpatient direct-care nurses throughout WVU Medicine.  Nurses are rewarded and recognized for being charge nurses and precepting students and/or new employees. They are also recognized for elevating the voice of nursing on unit, hospital, or system-wide councils. Education and professional development are also recognized as ways to advance in the Program. CAPE Conversations WVU Medicine nurses discuss the benefits of the CAPE Program in videos produced as part of the CAPE Conversations series. The CAPE Program was designed by and continues to be guided by direct care nurses from across the WVU Medicine health system. More videos CAPE Levels and Requirements Level 1 Educational requirement: Diploma, ADN, BSN, or higher degree Years of experience requirement: Less than 1 year Professional certification requirement: None Competencies requirement: None Level 2 Educational requirement: Diploma, ADN, BSN, or higher degree Years of experience requirement: 1 year Professional certification requirement: None Competencies requirement: None Level 3 Educational requirement: Diploma, ADN, or BSN Years of experience requirement: 2 years Professional certification requirement: Preferred Competencies requirement: Charge nurse and/or preceptor  Level 4 Educational requirement: BSN or 5 years experience with diploma/ADN Years of experience requirement: 3 years and BSN (or) 5 years and diploma/ADN Professional certification requirement: Required Competencies requirement: Charge nurse and/or preceptor (Competencies include demonstration of participation in quality improvement and/or shared governance at unit level) Level 5 Educational requirement: BSN or MSN (Consideration given to other health-related advanced degrees that would assist with direct patient care at the bedside) Years of experience requirement: 4 years and MSN (or) 4 years and BSN/health-related masters degree (or) 5 years and BSN Professional certification requirement: Required Competencies requirement: Charge nurse and/or preceptor (Competencies include demonstration of participation in quality improvement and/or shared governance at the organization level)  Level 6 Educational requirement: MSN (Consideration given to other health-related advanced degrees that would assist with direct patient care at the bedside) Years of experience requirement: 7 years + Professional certification requirement: Required Competencies requirement: Charge nurse and/or preceptor (Competencies include demonstration of participation in quality improvement and/or shared governance at the system level)