California Board of Nursing State CE Requirements
California Nurse Renewal Requirements At a Glance
RNs
Test: No Test Required
Renewal Cycle: 2 Years
Total Hours Required: 30
Total Elective Hours: 30
All RNs in the State of California who wish to maintain an active license are required to complete 30 hours of continuing education for license renewal.
The California Board of Nursing will not accept courses approved for less than 1 contact hour.
Within the first two years of licensure, RNs must complete:
- 1 hour of direct participation in an approved course covering implicit bias. This course cannot be taken on Nurse.com
LVNs
Test: No Test Required
Renewal Cycle: 2 Years
Total Hours Required: 30
Total Elective Hours: 30
All LVNs in the State of California who wish to maintain an active license are required to complete 30 hours of continuing education for license renewal.
The California Board of Nursing will not accept courses approved for less than 1 contact hour.
Within the first two years of licensure, LVNs must complete:
- 1 hour of direct participation in an approved course covering implicit bias. This course cannot be taken on Nurse.com
California Nursing License Renewal Package
30-Hour No-Test Renewal Package
$35.00
Includes all CA required courses
Includes 30 contact hours
Instant certificate upon completion!
Test is not required
About Our California Renewal Package
We'd like to help you complete your California nursing license renewal requirements in one convenient 30-contact-hour package. Whether you're an RN or LVN, this bundle gives you what you need to complete your requirements. No test is required, and students receive instant certification upon course completion.
We offer ANCC-accredited CA nursing CE courses that meet the license, re-licensure, and certification requirements of the California Board of Nursing. Topics include:
- Anesthesia in the Perioperative and Postoperative Settings
- HIPAA and Confidentiality for Licensed Professionals
- Nursing Documentation: Legal Aspects
- Professional Responsibility in Infection Prevention
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Additional Information: The course package does not provide the one-time one (1) hour requirement of implicit bias training that is required within the first two (2) years of licensure.
Goal and Learning Outcomes
- Review definitions, statistics, and trends of active shooter events.
- Recall recent U.S. cancer statistics, including those for the most commonly occurring cancers.
- Identify the stages and types of anesthesia, and medications commonly used in the perioperative setting.
- Identify the pathophysiology of and risk factors for developing gestational diabetes mellitus.
- Discuss assessment strategies and intervention techniques for crisis management.
- Select characteristics and skills that demonstrate critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment.
- Define the concepts of culture, cultural competence, generalizations, and stereotypes.
- Define patient disaster triage criteria and the role of the healthcare team in disaster preparation.
- Identify common injuries, radiological contamination routes, presenting signs and symptoms, and treatments associated with radiological incidents.
- Differentiate the past events and current ethical principles that govern patient care today.
- Define the six components of the chain of infection.
- Define positive psychology, happiness, and well-being.
- Recognize practices that protect the security of electronic protected health information.
- Describe the intent of HIPPA.
- Describe the impact of historical discrimination on the provision of healthcare.
- Recognize the preventive measures and treatment options for common travel-related problems and illnesses.
- Discuss the maintenance and complications of peripheral IV (PIV) therapy.
- Identify the lifespan health considerations of LGBTQ+ individuals (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older adulthood), including coming out and family systems.
- Examine sources and types of medication errors.
- Explain features of non-suicidal self-injury and how the behaviors can develop.
- Describe four characteristics of legally-credible charting.
- Identify nursing considerations related to the NIHSS, and discuss the NIHSS validity as a predictor of outcomes and stroke severity in patients with stroke.
- Determine why evidence-based practice matters and how it can be used to reduce common perioperative errors, such as surgical site infections; wrong-site, wrong-side, or wrong-person surgery; retained surgical items; and missing or mislabeled specimens.
- Describe why new diseases emerge or reemerge in the United States and the benefits of adhering to standards of infection control.
- Identify at least three common areas of risk and the role of nurses in mitigating risk.
- Recall the most commonly used social media platforms.
- Explain the modes of transmission for the zoonoses Bartonella henselae, T. gondii, T. canis, Pasteurella multocida, Chlamydophila psittaci, Salmonella, and rabies.
CA 30-Hour CE Renewal Package - No Test Required
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