For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. No test nursing CEU courses are intended for nurses who work across all specialties and care settings and who want to meet all or most of their state-required nursing CEs in a single course.
Specialty-focused packages are intended for nurses who work within specific nursing specialties and want to increase their knowledge within a topic while earning continuing education:. The majority of nurses working in the U. No test CEU for nurses is a convenient way to meet these requirements while improving knowledge across key nursing topics:. I need to fulfill my state license requirements.
A CEU license renewal package is also available for nurses licensed in FL but does include a test in order to meet Florida Board of Nursing requirements. Even if we do not offer a specific package for your state, we do still offer your state's mandated courses on an individual basis.
You can find and purchase these individual courses by visiting your nursing CEU state requirements page. You can easily acquire extra hours needed by purchasing convenient 10, 20, or 30 contact hour no-test renewal packs across a variety of specialty topics.
For the best value, we recommend becoming an Unlimited CE member, which gives you full access to all state-required courses and free or discounted access to more than CE and professional development courses on Nurse. Unlimited CE members enjoy free access to all Nurse. Behavioral sciences-psychology courses including abnormal psychology, child psychology and mental health. Required basic courses in physical, social and behavioral sciences for RNs who are obtaining a baccalaureate or graduate degree or specialty certification.
Courses where the primary focus is recent scientific knowledge applied to direct or indirect patient care. Skills courses stoma care, etc.
Courses taken in another state, so long as the course is acceptable by that state's Board of Nursing for continuing education. Courses offered in California by out-of-state organizations, associations, corporations, individuals, must have a Board-approved CEP number. Unacceptable Courses Courses which deal with self-improvement, changes in attitude, self-therapy, self-awareness, weight loss and yoga Economic courses for financial gain, e.
Audits of Registered Nurses Random audits of registered nurses are conducted regularly Title 16, California Code of Regulations, Sections c and d. RNs Renewing for the First Time After Taking the Exam If you obtained your initial RN license by passing the national licensing examination within the past two years and this is your first renewal, you are exempt from the CE requirement. Exemption from Continuing Education Licensees shall be exempt from completion of the continuing education requirements as specified in Title 16, California Code of Regulations, Section , during the first two years immediately following initial licensure after taking the national licensing examination.
Going Green. Related Links. Connect With Us. Click here to see a list of Board-approved certifications. However, do note that all nurses must comply with the Nursing Jurisprudence and Nursing Ethics requirement discussed in Board Rule Forensic Evidence Collection Board Rule Content may also include documentation, history-taking skills, use of sexual assault kit, survivor symptoms, and emotional and psychological support interventions for victims.
Maintain record of course completion indefinitely, even if you change employment. Any nurse who performs a forensic examination on a sexual assault survivor must complete basic forensic evidence collection training or the equivalent education prior to performing the exam.
This is a one-time requirement. Contact hours completed for this requirement do count towards completion of the 20 contact hours of CNE required for all nurses. Board-approved certification related to forensic evidence collection may be used to fulfill this requirement. Any nurse whose practice includes older adult or geriatric populations is required to complete at least 2 contact hours of CNE relating to older adult or geriatric populations before the end of every licensing period applicable to licensing periods that began on or after January 1, Board-approved certification related to older adult or geriatric populations may be used to fulfill this requirement.
All nurses must complete at least 2 contact hours of CNE relating to nursing jurisprudence and nursing ethics before the end of every third two-year licensing period applicable to licensing periods that began on or after January 1, Certification may not be used to fulfill this requirement. Only CNE is acceptable.
Pharmacotherapeutics Board Rule Any APRN who holds prescriptive authority must complete at least 5 additional contact hours of continuing education in pharmacotherapeutics before the end of every licensing period. You can read the final copy of HB by clicking here. Prescription of Opioids Board Rule Any APRN licensed prior to September 1, , and authorized to receive information from the PMP must complete 2 hours of continuing education related to approved procedures of prescribing and monitoring controlled substances no later than September 1, Human Trafficking Prevention Board Rule Any nurse who provides direct patient care must complete a human trafficking prevention course that is approved by the Executive Director of Texas Health and Human Services Commission HHSC that covers identifying and assisting victims of human trafficking before the end of every licensing period applicable to licensure renewals on or after September 1, CNE contact hours completed for this requirement may count towards completion of the 20 contact hours of CNE required for all nurses.
Certification may not be used to fulfill this requirement; an HHSC-approved course, as described above, must be completed. This bill was passed during the Texas Legislative session; adding Sections This bill also requires HHSC to approve training courses on human trafficking, including at least one that is free of charge, post the list of approved trainings on the HHSC website, and update the list of approved trainings as necessary.
Tick-Borne Diseases Board Rule Any APRN whose practice includes the treatment of tick-borne diseases is encouraged to participate in continuing education relating to the treatment of tick-borne diseases. The continuing education course s should contain information relevant to treatment of the disease within the APRN's role and population focus area of licensure and may represent a spectrum of relevant medical clinical treatment relating to tick-borne disease.
Category I CME in the treatment of tick-borne disease may be used to fulfill this requirement. Like all nurses in Texas, APRNs are required to complete 20 contact hours of continuing education appropriate to the advanced practice role and population focus area recognized by the Board OR achieve, maintain, or renew the national nursing certification recognized by the Board as meeting the certification requirement for the APRN's role and population focus area of licensure within the licensing period and meet the applicable targeted continuing education requirements.
In other words, the required 20 contact hours for APRNs are not in addition to the required 20 contact hours for RN license renewal. Any APRN who holds prescriptive authority must complete, in addition to the aforementioned 20 contact hours required for all APRNs, at least 5 additional contact hours of continuing education in pharmacotherapeutics.
These hours are above and beyond the 20 hours required for all nurses. Also, some APRNs may have additional requirements related to prescribing e. Please review the targeted continuing education requirements to determine what additional CE hours you may need. Academic Courses Board Rule A nurse may receive CNE credit for attendance and completion of an academic course within the framework of a curriculum that leads to an academic degree in nursing —OR— any academic course directly relevant to the licensee's area of nursing practice.
The academic course must have been completed within the licensing period for which the renewal takes place. For example, if your license expires in April , you must have completed the academic course sometime time between May 1, and April 30, , which is the licensing period for the April renewal.
Only distinct activities may be used to obtain contact hours by this means for a licensing period in other words, you cannot present the same offering 3 times over the course of your licensing period and get credit all 3 times. Upon audit by the Board, the nurse must submit to the Board on one page: the title of the program, program objectives, brief outline of content, name of credentialing agency that approved the program for contact hours, provider number, program number, dates and locations of the presentation, and number of contact hours.
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