Illinois · APRN
Illinois APRN Renewal Bundle
The Illinois APRN course list — 6 required courses plus the electives that finish your hours. Included with All-Access.
Our Illinois APRN list, kept against the Illinois Board of Nursing requirements. Every course here is included in All-Access, and your certificate is issued as soon as you pass.
What Illinois asks for
LPN/RN – 20 CE hours per 2-year cycle-including 1 hour on sexual harassment,1 hour on implicit bias in healthcare training, 1 hour in cultural competency. APRN – 80 CE hours per 2-year cycle, including including 1 hour on sexual harassment,1 hour on implicit bias in healthcare training, 1 hour in cultural competency 20 hours pharmacotherapeutics/10 hours opioid or substance-abuse education, 3 hours on safe opioid prescribing, RN/LPN/APRN – working with children must take mandated Reporter Training every 6 year thru the ILL portal-FREE, if working with children.
Always confirm the current rules with your Board of Nursing before you renew. See the Illinois page.
Board-required courses
- 0 hrs
- Best Practices for Prescribing Opioids and Recognizing Pain, Drug Diversion, and Substance Abuse2 hrs
- Effects of Drug Use on Fetal Development2.5 hrs
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease2.5 hrs
- Cardiovascular Disease Prevention2.5 hrs
- Substance Use Disorder and Treatment Options2 hrs
- Understanding Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics2.5 hrs
Electives included
- Vaping, Electric Cigarettes, and Clinical Implications2.5 hrs
- Active Shooter at Work: How to Prepare2.5 hrs
- Amniotic Fluid Embolism: Recognizing the Signs2.5 hrs
- Alzheimer’s Disease and Reality Orientation Therapy2 hrs
- Psychotropic Medications2.5 hrs
- Wounds: Stages of Healing2 hrs
- Tissue and Organ Donation2 hrs
- Sexual Harassment1 hrs
- Implicit Bias and How to Reduce it2 hrs
- Cultural Competency - 4 Contact Hours2.5 hrs
- Arthritis Types2.5 hrs
- HIV Prevention2.5 hrs
- Frontotemporal Dementia: A Quick Overview2.5 hrs
- Improving Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration1 hrs
- Ethics in Nursing2.5 hrs
- ICU Psychosis2.5 hrs
- Antibiotics: Understanding their Classifications2.5 hrs
- PTSD: Diagnosis and Treatment2 hrs