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Continuing Education Requirements |
Active in Practice Requirements |
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ARNP |
30 hours for RN licensure, 30 additional hours specific to the area of advanced practice specialization, 5 of which must be related to pharmacology. Current certification in specialty will meet requirements for 30 continuing education hours for RN licensure.
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400 hours active in practice specialty in 4 years immediately preceding date of application. |
RN/ LPN |
30 contact hours in 2 years immediately preceding license application including workshops, conferences, lectures or other education offerings designed to enhance nursing knowledge, judgment, and skills. |
400 hours active in practice in 4 years immediately prior to date of application, or have completed a board approved refresher program within 2 years of application, or have successfully completed NCLEX examination within 2 years of application.
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LNA |
12 contact hours per year including conferences, lectures or other education offerings designed to enhance nursing assistant knowledge, judgment, and skills or successful completion of nursing assistant competency test within 2 years of date of application.
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200 hours in 2 years immediately preceding date of application, or successful completion of nursing assistant competency test within 2 years of date of application. |
MNA |
4 0f the 12 required contact hours for LNA must be related to medication administration
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Minimum of 50 hours use of medication nursing assistant knowledge, judgment and skills within 2 years of date of application. |
Please note:
The Board does not require that your contact hours be earned at conferences that provide “official” contact hours granted by a professional organization. However, the educational offering must:
- Have specific objectives that guide the learning
- Pertain to and enhance the licensee’s knowledge, skills and judgment
- Pertain to the licensee’s scope of practice
- Have a method for evaluating the learner’s attainment of the objectives
- Maintain a list of attendees
The licensee should maintain documentation of attendance that includes: the title, length and date of the offering and the name of the entity providing the offering.
Activities/Topics Eligible for
Continuing Education
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Activities/Topics NOT Eligible
for Continuing Education
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One contact hour = 60 minutes of organized learning |
- Initial or renewal of ACLS/BLS certification
- Nursing art and science
- Nursing education, practice and research
- Research in health care
- Biological, physical or behavioral science
- Management, administration or supervision of health care delivery
- Teaching or learning principles
- Ethical or legal aspects of health care
- Content offered in basic nursing educational programs
- Health care trends, issues or policies
- Initial education related to management of new nursing related technology or equipment
- Initial education related to a clinical procedure
- RN/LPN re-entry course
- Initial nationally recognized certification (30 contact hours)
- LNA written and clinical exam
- Emergency Preparedness/Disaster Preparedness
- Authorship of a published professional nursing article or book
- Nursing or nursing related grant writing or research
- Completion of one or more credits in school, college or university that enhances nursing knowledge and skills
(One academic credit = 15 contact hours)
- Initial development of a professional presentation (3 contact hours for every 1 hour of class – first time only)
- Participation in Quality Assessment or Risk Management studies
- Preparation and initial participation on a professional nursing panel
Individualized Learning Activities are acceptable and may include:
- Programmed learning units offered on the internet and in professional nursing literature, books, magazines or journals**
- Instructional units on television, audio/video cassettes, computer technology or compact disc**
** There is no limit to the number of contact hours that can be completed through independent study. However, individualized learning courses must have some method of verifying that the course was completed.
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- Clinical practice related to the policies/procedures of the facility where you are providing nursing care.
- Orientation specific to employment i.e. computer course, documentation, human resource policies.
- Orienting/precepting an employee or student.
- Being oriented/precepted to a position.
- Attendance at business and/or professional meetings unless the activity enhances nursing knowledge, judgment and skills.
- Duplicate activities reviewed within a reporting period i.e. annual competencies and retraining.
- Courses which focus upon self-improvement changes in attitude, self-therapy, self-awareness, weight loss and yoga.
- Economic courses for financial gain, e.g., investments, retirement, preparing resumes, and techniques for job interviews, etc.
- Courses designed for lay people.
- Liberal arts courses in music, art, philosophy, and others when unrelated to patient/client care.
- Courses which focus on personal appearance in nursing.
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