Texas Nursing (RN) CE requirements
Registered Nurse — license renewal requirements, sourced from the official board.
Renewal: The two-year period ends on the last day of the licensee's birth month and year; the first renewal is exempt from the CNE requirement.
Required categories
Details
Texas requires 20 contact hours of continuing nursing education in the nurse's area of practice every two years, or a Board-approved national certification. Conditional and periodic add-ons include jurisprudence and ethics every third renewal, one-time human trafficking training, geriatric content for applicable practice, and forensic-evidence training for applicable nurses; the Board does not state hour amounts for these add-ons.
Official source: Texas Board of Nursing - Continuing Education
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