APRN Ebook Continuing Education

STATE BY STATE REQUIREMENT GUIDE

STATE

HOURS ALLOWED BY HOMESTUDY

TOTAL HOURS REQUIRED

50

Maine

50 APRNs are required to complete 50 contact hours of CE every 2-year renewal period. Requirement for APRNs with prescriptive authority: ● Prescribing Opioids - 3 hours For more information visit the Maine Board of Nursing website. 0 APRNs are required to maintain national certification. 2-year renewal period. For more information visit the Maryland Board of Nursing website. 15 APRNs are required to maintain national certification and complete 15 contact hours of CE every 25 LPNs, RNs, and APRNs are required to complete 25 contact hours of CE every 2-year renewal period. Contact hours must include: ● Pain and Symptom Management – 2 contact hours every 2-year renewal period. ● Per the State Board of Nursing, the following is a 1-time REQUIRED COURSE, but CAN NOT count toward total required CE contact hours: ● Human Trafficking. 24 Current APRN certification on file at the Board will meet the 24 contact hours of continuing education for the RN license. For more information visit the Minnesota Board of Nursing website. 5 APRNs are required to maintain national certification and complete a minimum of 5 contact hours of continuing education related to controlled substances per renewal period. For more information visit the Mississippi Board of Nursing website. 2-year renewal period. Contact hours must include Pain Management. For more information visit the Massachusetts Board of Nursing website. ● Implicit Bias Training - 2 hours every 2-year renewal period For more information visit the Michigan Board of Nursing website. 0 APRNs are required to maintain national certification. 2-year renewal period. For more information visit the Missouri Board of Nursing website. 24 LPNs, RNs, and APRNs are required to complete 24 contact hours of CE every 2-year renewal period. Requirements for APRNs with prescriptive authority: ● Pharmacotherapeutics - 12 hours every renewal period For more information visit the Montana Board of Nursing website. 20 APRNs are required to maintain a Nebraska RN license or NLC multistate license. Requirements for APRNs who prescribe controlled substances: ● Prescribing Opiates - 3 hours, one half-hour must be about the PDMP. For more information visit the Nebraska Board of Nursing website. 45 APRNs are required to complete 45 contact hours of CE every 2-year renewal period. Contact hours must include: ● Bioterrorism: Responding to Acts of Terrorism – 4 contact hours; 1-time requirement. ● Cultural competency and diversity, equity and inclusion - 2 hours ● NEW! Beginning with renewals on or after January 1, 2024, all licensees are required to have 4, rather than 2, hours in cultural competency and diversity, equity and inclusion ● Suicide prevention - 2 hours (within first two years of initial licensure and every 4 years thereafter) ● Substance use disorder - 2 hours ● NEW! Beginning with renewals on or after January 1, 2024, all licensees are required to have 2 hours in substance use disorder ● Misuse and abuse of controlled substances, prescribing of opioids and addiction - 2 hours (all APRNs who have the authority to prescribe controlled substances) ● 15 hours - Area of practice For more information visit the Nevada Board of Nursing website. 60 APRNs are required to complete 60 contact hours of CE every 2-year renewal period. Contact hours must include: ● Role or specialty – 30 contact hours every 2-year renewal period. ● Pharmacology (opioid prescribing, pain management, or substance abuse) – 5 contact hours every 2-year renewal period. ○ Opioid Prescribing - 3 hours of the 5 Pharmacology hours For more information visit the New Hampshire Board of Nursing website. 30 ● Every biennial period, an advanced practice nurse shall complete the continuing educa- tion required for the renewal of a registered professional nurse license and the continuing education requirements of the national certifying agency whose examination the advanced practice nurse successfully passed. ● This includes at least one (1) hour in topics concerning prescription opioid drugs, and two (2) hours in programs or topics related to end-of-life care. For more information visit the New Jersey Board of Nursing website. 30 APRNs are required to complete 30 contact hours of CE every 2-year renewal period. Contact hours must include: ● Specialty or Role – 5 contact hours every 2-year renewal period. ● Pain Management for Advanced Practice – 5 contact hours every 2-year renewal period. ● Pharmacology – 15 contact hours every 2-year renewal period. ○ For APRNs with prescriptive authority, 5 of the 15 contact hours must include Management of Non-Cancer or Chronic Pain every 2-year renewal period. For more information visit the New Mexico Board of Nursing website.

0

Maryland

15

Massachusetts

25

Michigan

24

Minnesota

5

Mississippi

0

Missouri

24

Montana

20

Nebraska

45

Nevada

60

New Hampshire

30

New Jersey

30

New Mexico

NOTE: CE Rules can change. Always check your state board for the most up-to-date information.

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