Idaho Nursing CE Courses
Last updated Mar 1, 2026
Idaho Nursing Continuing Education Requirements
RN Requirements
- No CE requirement
- RN/
- None identified
LPN Requirements
- No CE requirement
- LPN: Every 2 years.
- None identified
APRN Requirements
- 30 of continuing education for advanced practice nurses
- Renewal cycle: 2 years
- Pharmacology: 10 Pharmacology if prescriptive authority
- Required topic: Pharmacology
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Idaho RN required courses
16 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 hoursA practical nursing overview of muscular dystrophies, with emphasis on recognition, diagnosis, Duchenne care, complication surveillance, and interdisciplinary management.
4 contact hoursBuild practical nursing knowledge of antibiotic classes, selection, resistance, adverse effects, administration, monitoring, and patient education.
3 contact hoursA practical, evidence-based course on HIV transmission, testing, treatment as prevention, PrEP, PEP, and management of occupational exposure.
4 contact hoursBuild practical skills to recognize frontotemporal dementia, support diagnostic evaluation, manage symptoms and safety risks, and provide person-centered nursing care.
1 contact hoursTo provide healthcare professionals an overview of common interprofessional communication and collaboration principles, and tools for conflict prevention within the healthcare setting.
Idaho nursing CE questions
Straight from the Idaho board
- Renewal period
- RN/LPN: Every 2 years.
- RN requirement
- No routine CE
- LPN / LVN requirement
- No routine CE
- Mandatory topics
- None identified
- Required courses
- RN/LPN: Continuing competency can be demonstrated through Board-approved options. A fixed CE-hour number should not be listed as the only requirement without specifying the applicable competency method. Source: Idaho Board of Nursing.
- Good to know
- Idaho does not use a simple CE-hour requirement as the sole renewal standard. Licensees must satisfy the Board's continuing-competency requirements. Source: Idaho Board of Nursing.
- Advanced practice CE
- 30
- Renewal period
- 2 years
- Pharmacology
- 10 Pharmacology if prescriptive authority
- Who it applies to
- APRNs with prescriptive authority
- Controlled substances / opioids
- None identified
- Pain and opioid content
- None identified
- Prescriptive authority
- None identified
- Who approves the course
- Idaho Board of Nursing / DOPL
- Accepted providers
- None identified
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