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Louisiana APRN continuing education requirements
30 if not meeting renewal by national certification/commensurate route
APRN, NP, CRNA and CNM requirements
Verified Sep 11, 2026
- Advanced practice CE
- 30 if not meeting renewal by national certification/commensurate route
- Renewal period
- 1 year
- Pharmacology
- 6 pharmacology contact hours. 6 Pharmacology annually if prescriptive authority
- Who it applies to
- APRNs with prescriptive authority
- Controlled substances / opioids
- Yes, where prescribing applies
- Pain and opioid content
- None identified as a separate requirement
- Prescriptive authority
- Yes
- Who approves the course
- Louisiana State Board of Nursing (LSBN) recognizes specified accrediting organizations
- Accepted providers
- Any state BON; ACCME, ACPE, AMA, ANA, ANCC, AANP, AAPA, ACNM, APA, APNA, ENA, NPWH, NAPNAP, and others listed by LSBN
What the board publishes
Verified Sep 11, 2026
- Renewal period
- biennial renewal
- RN requirement
- Practice-hour-based CE requirement
- LPN / LVN requirement
- Verify current LPN requirement
- Mandatory topics
- Each year APRNs with prescriptive authority must obtain six contact hours of CE in pharmacotherapeutics in their advanced nursing role and population foci. Since renewal occurs every two years, APRNs with prescriptive authority who are selected for the audit must provide 12 contact hours of CE in pharmacotherapeutics.
- Required courses
- RN: Continuing-competency requirements may be met through qualifying nursing practice and/or continuing education under the Board's current rules. LPN: No general fixed CE-hour requirement for ordinary renewal. Action: Fast CE's older “30 hours or 900 practice hours” wording should be rechecked before being retained. Source: Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
- Good to know
- Louisiana's RN renewal/continuing-competency system is not accurately represented by simply saying “30 CE hours or 900 practice hours.” The Board uses practice/CE competency requirements and the exact requirement depends on the nurse's practice history. LPNs do not have the same general CE requirement as RNs. Source: Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
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