Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4723 - Ohio Board of Nursing › Chapter 4723-8 - Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Licensing and Practice › Section 4723-8-10 - Continuing education requirements

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Each advanced practice registered nurse
			 who obtains continuing nursing education in the nurse's area of practice for
			 the purpose of obtaining or maintaining a national certification may use those
			 continuing education hours to satisfy the continuing education requirements
			 for renewal of a license to practice as a registered
			 nurse and advanced practice registered nurse set forth in
			 this rule, section
			 4723.24 of the Revised Code and
			 Chapter 4723-14 of the Administrative Code, if
			 the continuing education meets the requirements of Chapter 4723-14 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(B)
								An advanced practice registered nurse who holds an
			 active license shall complete continuing nursing education as follows in order
			 to renew the license:
(1)
									Twenty-four contact hours of continuing nursing
			 education;
(2)
									For advanced practice registered nurses designated as a
			 clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife or certified nurse
			 practitioner, at least twelve hours of the education must be in advanced
			 pharmacology and must have been provided by an accredited institution
			 recognized by the board, including any provider referenced in paragraph (E) of
			 rule
			 4723-9-01 of the
			 Administrative Code;
(3)
									For the first period of renewal immediately following
			 the initial issuance of the advanced practice registered nurse license by the
			 board, a licensee is not required to complete any contact hours of continuing
			 education;
(4)
									For purposes of fulfilling the twenty-four hours of
			 continuing education required for renewal, an advanced practice registered
			 nurse may satisfy up to eight hours by providing health care services as a
			 volunteer if the following requirements are met:
(a)
										The licensee
			 provides the health care services to an indigent and uninsured person as
			 defined in section 2305.234 of the Revised
			 Code;
(b)
										The health care provided is advanced practice
			 registered nursing, as defined in division (P) of section
			 4723.01 of the Revised Code and
			 is within the designated specialty scope of practice of the advanced practice
			 registered nurse providing the services as set forth in section
			 4723.43 of the Revised
			 Code;
(c)
										The health care services provided are provided as a
			 volunteer, as that term is defined in section
			 2305.234 of the Revised
			 Code;
(d)
										The licensee satisfies the requirements of section
			 2305.234 of the Revised Code to
			 qualify for the immunity from liability granted under that
			 section;
(e)
										One hour of continuing education may be awarded for
			 each sixty minutes documented as spent providing health care services as a
			 volunteer;
(f)
										The advanced practice registered nurse obtains, and
			 maintains for a period of six years following the date the health care services
			 are provided, a signed statement from a person at the health care facility or
			 location where the health care services were performed indicating:
(i)
											The date and time
			 period the licensee performed the health care services;
(ii)
											That the
			 recipient of the health care services was indigent and uninsured as defined in
			 section 2305.234 of the Revised Code;
			 and
(iii)
											That the licensee provided the health care services as
			 a volunteer as defined in section
			 2305.234 of the Revised
			 Code.