Hawaii Nursing CE Courses
Last updated Mar 1, 2026
Hawaii Nursing Continuing Education Requirements
RN Requirements
- No CE requirement
- Renew by June 30 every odd-numbered year
- None identified
LPN Requirements
- No CE requirement
- Renew by June 30 every odd-numbered year
- None identified
APRN Requirements
- 30 of continuing education for advanced practice nurses
- Renewal cycle: 2 years
- Pharmacology: 8 Pharmacology
- Required topic: Pharmacology
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Hawaii RN required courses
30 contact hours in this list, included with your yearly pass. Always confirm with your board before you renew.
This board names no specific required topic for RNs — any of our courses count toward your hours.
Elective courses
Pick from these to finish your hours. Every one is included with the yearly pass.
4 contact hoursBuild practical nursing skills for recognizing autism, supporting assessment, adapting care, managing health needs, and partnering with autistic people and families across the lifespan.
4 contact hoursPrepares nurses to recognize, protect against, report, and support the emergency management of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive incidents.
5 contact hoursBuild safe, evidence-based practice for selecting, verifying, administering, monitoring, and responding to transfusions of blood components.
3 contact hoursEvidence-based nursing care for breast cancer screening, diagnosis, staging, treatment, symptom management, survivorship, recurrence, and metastatic disease.
4 contact hoursAfter completing this course, nurses will be able to distinguish common arthritic and arthritis-associated conditions using symptom patterns, examination findings, laboratory data, imaging, and synovial fluid results.
10 contact hoursApply current nursing ethics codes, structured reasoning, informed consent standards, advocacy practices, and professional accountability to common clinical dilemmas.
Hawaii nursing CE questions
Straight from the Hawaii board
- Renewal period
- Renew by June 30 every odd-numbered year
- RN requirement
- No routine CE
- LPN / LVN requirement
- No routine CE
- Mandatory topics
- None identified
- Required courses
- RN/LPN: Required continuing competency may be satisfied through Board-approved methods, including qualifying continuing education. Do not state that Hawaii simply requires a fixed 30 CE hours unless the particular competency pathway being used requires it. Source: Hawaii Board of Nursing Continuing Competency Booklet. (DCCA Hawaii)
- Good to know
- Hawaii uses a continuing-competency requirement, rather than simply requiring a fixed number of CE hours. The nurse must satisfy one of the Board's accepted competency methods during the biennium. Source: Hawaii Board of Nursing. (DCCA Hawaii)
- Advanced practice CE
- 30
- Renewal period
- 2 years
- Pharmacology
- 8 pharmacology contact hours. 8 Pharmacology
- Who it applies to
- APRNs with prescriptive authority
- Controlled substances / opioids
- None identified as a separate requirement
- Pain and opioid content
- None identified
- Prescriptive authority
- Yes
- Who approves the course
- Hawaii Board of Nursing / Board-recognized national certifying body
- Accepted providers
- Hawaii BON-approved recognized certifying bodies; Board-recognized national certification organizations
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