Oregon Nursing CE Courses
Last updated Mar 1, 2026
Oregon Nursing Continuing Education Requirements
RN Requirements
- Beginning January 1, 2028: 20 hours of continuing education. of continuing education each renewal period
- RN/
- One-hour pain management education in the last 36 months; Two hours of cultural competency education in the past 48 months.
LPN Requirements
- Beginning January 1, 2028: 20 hours of continuing education. of continuing education each renewal period
- LPN: Every 2 years.
- One-hour pain management education in the last 36 months; Two hours of cultural competency education in the past 48 months.
APRN Requirements
- Current requirement: no fixed APRN CE total
- Renewal cycle: 2 years
- Pharmacology: 1 pain-management + 2 cultural-competency hours
- Required topic: None identified
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Oregon RN required courses
6 contact hours in this list, included with your yearly pass. Always confirm with your board before you renew.
3 contact hoursBuild practical skills to deliver respectful, equitable, legally compliant nursing care across cultural, linguistic, religious, disability, military, age, racial, and identity differences.
3 contact hoursBuild nursing skills to assess chronic pain, set functional goals, apply multimodal treatment, reduce medication-related harm, and coordinate person-centered care.
Oregon nursing CE questions
Straight from the Oregon board
- Renewal period
- RN/LPN: Every 2 years.
- RN requirement
- Current pain-management/cultural competency requirements; 20-hr CE begins Jan. 1, 2028
- LPN / LVN requirement
- Same
- Mandatory topics
- One-hour pain management education in the last 36 months; Two hours of cultural competency education in the past 48 months.
- Required courses
- RN/LPN: Current requirements include 1 hour pain-management education within the applicable period and 2 hours cultural-competency education within the applicable period. The old requirement of 400 RN practice hours / 40 LPN practice hours should be removed from your document. Source: Oregon State Board of Nursing.
- Good to know
- Major 2026 update: Oregon changed its competency requirements effective January 1, 2026. Practice-hour requirements that were previously used for competency were removed. Oregon now requires specific CE/competency activities, with a 20-hour CE requirement beginning January 1, 2028.
- Advanced practice CE
- Current requirement: no fixed APRN CE total
- Renewal period
- 2 years
- Pharmacology
- 1 pain-management + 2 cultural-competency hours
- Who it applies to
- APRNs
- Controlled substances / opioids
- None identified as a separate APRN pharmacology requirement
- Pain and opioid content
- Yes, where applicable under Oregon pain-management requirements
- Prescriptive authority
- Yes
- Who approves the course
- Oregon State Board of Nursing
- Accepted providers
- Qualifying CE providers/activities under OSBN rules
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