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Oregon APRN continuing education requirements
Current requirement: no fixed APRN CE total
APRN, NP, CRNA and CNM requirements
Verified Sep 15, 2026
- 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
What the board publishes
Verified Sep 21, 2026
- 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.
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