Louisiana Nursing CE Courses
Last updated Mar 1, 2026
Louisiana Nursing Continuing Education Requirements
RN Requirements
- a minimum of 30 board-approved contact hours of continuing education during the two-year licensure period of continuing education each renewal period
- every two years
- Each year APRNs with prescriptive authority must obtain six contact hours of CE in pharmacotherapeutics in their advanced nursing role and population foci. Since renewal occurs every two years, APRNs with prescriptive authority who are selected for the audit must provide 12 contact hours of CE in pharmacotherapeutics.
APRN Requirements
- 30 if not meeting renewal by national certification/commensurate route of continuing education for advanced practice nurses
- Renewal cycle: 1 year
- Pharmacology: 6 Pharmacology annually if prescriptive authority
- Required topic: Pharmacotherapeutics related to APRN role/population
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Louisiana 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.
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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.
Louisiana nursing CE questions
Straight from the Louisiana board
- Renewal period
- every two years
- RN requirement
- Practice-hour-based CE requirement
- LPN / LVN requirement
- Verify current LPN requirement
- Mandatory topics
- Each year APRNs with prescriptive authority must obtain six contact hours of CE in pharmacotherapeutics in their advanced nursing role and population foci. Since renewal occurs every two years, APRNs with prescriptive authority who are selected for the audit must provide 12 contact hours of CE in pharmacotherapeutics.
- Required courses
- RN: Continuing-competency requirements may be met through qualifying nursing practice and/or continuing education under the Board's current rules. LPN: No general fixed CE-hour requirement for ordinary renewal. Action: Fast CE's older “30 hours or 900 practice hours” wording should be rechecked before being retained. Source: Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
- Good to know
- Louisiana's RN renewal/continuing-competency system is not accurately represented by simply saying “30 CE hours or 900 practice hours.” The Board uses practice/CE competency requirements and the exact requirement depends on the nurse's practice history. LPNs do not have the same general CE requirement as RNs. Source: Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
- Advanced practice CE
- 30 if not meeting renewal by national certification/commensurate route
- Renewal period
- 1 year
- Pharmacology
- 6 pharmacology contact hours. 6 Pharmacology annually if prescriptive authority
- Who it applies to
- APRNs with prescriptive authority
- Controlled substances / opioids
- Yes, where prescribing applies
- Pain and opioid content
- None identified as a separate requirement
- Prescriptive authority
- Yes
- Who approves the course
- Louisiana State Board of Nursing (LSBN) recognizes specified accrediting organizations
- Accepted providers
- Any state BON; ACCME, ACPE, AMA, ANA, ANCC, AANP, AAPA, ACNM, APA, APNA, ENA, NPWH, NAPNAP, and others listed by LSBN
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