Oregon Nurse Practitioner (APRN) CE requirements

Renewal: Nursing licenses are good for two years and expire at midnight the day before the licensee's birthday (official OSBN Sentinel, November 2017); the renewal year follows the licensee's birth year (odd birth year renews in odd years), so no statewide parity applies.

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Details

Verified against the official OSBN CE fact sheet (December 31, 2025): effective January 1, 2026, practice-hour requirements ended, and LPN/RN/APRN renewal requires 1 hour of pain-management education (Oregon Pain Management Commission course, within the prior 36 months) plus 2 hours of cultural-competency education (within the prior 48 months). Effective January 1, 2028, holding current national certification satisfies practice-related CE for NPs/CRNAs, with the pain-management and cultural-competency education still required. Because these are not NP-tier hour requirements, totalHours is 0 per the dataset definition. Reported but not independently verified against current rule text: AANP (citing OR ADC 851-053-0005) states NPs licensed before January 1, 2011 who do not maintain national certification need 45 CE hours within their population foci per 2-year period. Licenses issued on or after January 1, 2026 expire two years from the issuance date rather than on the birthday cycle (per secondary summaries of HB 3044 implementation).

Official source: Oregon State Board of Nursing