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Pennsylvania APRN continuing education requirements
30 hours
APRN, NP, CRNA and CNM requirements
Verified Sep 15, 2026
- Advanced practice CE
- 30 hours
- Renewal period
- 2 years
- Pharmacology
- 16 pharmacology hours if prescriptive authority
- Who it applies to
- CRNPs with prescriptive authority
- Controlled substances / opioids
- Yes, where prescriptive authority applies
- Pain and opioid content
- None identified as a universal APRN pharm-hour requirement
- Prescriptive authority
- Yes
- Who approves the course
- Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing
- Accepted providers
- Board-approved/recognized CE providers and qualifying national organizations
What the board publishes
Verified Sep 21, 2026
- Renewal period
- RN/LPN: Every 2 years.
- RN requirement
- 30/2 yrs
- LPN / LVN requirement
- 30/2 yrs
- Mandatory topics
- radiation safety, biological effects of radiation, quality assurance, and quality control
- Required courses
- RN: 30 CE hours, including 2 hours child-abuse recognition/reporting and the new applicable 2-hour organ-donation education requirement. LPN: 30 CE hours, including 2 hours child-abuse recognition/reporting. Source: Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing.
- Good to know
- Pennsylvania requires 30 hours of approved CE for renewal. A major 2026 update is the new organ-donation education requirement for RNs, effective May 1, 2026.
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