School Nurse CEUs

RN/LPN Contact Hours Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing

The Bureau of Education & Research is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing to provide continuing education activities for school nursing.

Continuing education credit/contact hours for school nurses may be earned in some states, but not all.

School Nurse CEUs Offered

1. The following states DO require continuing education units for RNs/LPNs to maintain their certification/licenses. Each of these states has told us they will accept BER's approval by the California Board of Registered Nursing as a Continuing Education Provider. (Provider #CEP 15144, for five (5) contact hours.)

Alabama	Kansas	North Carolina
Alaska	Kentucky	North Dakota
Arkansas	Louisiana	Ohio
California	Michigan	Pennsylvania
District of Columbia	Minnesota	Rhode Island
Florida	Nebraska	South Carolina
Georgia	Nevada	Texas
*Illinois	New Hampshire	Virginia
**Indiana – if lapsed	New Jersey	Washington
Iowa	New Mexico	West Virginia

* Illinois CPDU credits do not transfer/apply towards the CE credits required for
APRN renewal in Illinois

**CEUs are only required in Indiana if a nurse allows their license to lapse.

NOTE: APRNs need to check with their certifying agency to determine if the seminar meets the additional CEU requirements for their specialty area.

2. Those states which DO NOT require continuing education units for RNs/LPNs to maintain their certification/licenses, but may require CEUs for APRNs, are as follows:

Arizona	Maryland	Oregon
Colorado	Mississippi	South Dakota
Connecticut	Missouri	Tennessee
Idaho	Montana	Vermont
Indiana	*New York	Wisconsin
Maine	Oklahoma

*NY only requires an infectious disease course every 4 years. BER school nurse
events do not cover this in sufficient detail to fill this requirement.

NOTE: APRNs need to check with their certifying agency to determine if the seminar meets the additional CEU requirements for their specialty area.

3. Massachusetts Board of Registration
Massachusetts has its own requirements which we meet and therefore Massachusetts nurses attending our events in Boston, MA; Hartford, CT; Providence, RI; or Manchester, NH are eligible to receive 6 Contact Hours per the requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing listed in 244 CMR 5.00.

Certificate of Participation

The Certificate of Participation will include the following or similar statement for events offered in all of the above states:

School Nurse CEUs Not Offered

The following states DO require continuing education units for RNs/LPNs to maintain their certification/licenses, but DO NOT accept our approval by the California Board of Registered Nursing as a Continuing Education Provider. Therefore, participants attending our school nurse events cannot receive CE/contact hours specific to nursing to apply toward maintaining their certification/license. Participants may still receive general teaching continuing education units for these states with prior district approval.

Delaware

Hawaii

Utah

• Though we are not an approved provider of Nursing Specific CE's for these states, we still provide general continuing education contact hours for these events.