Alabama Continuing Education Requirements

Certifications are kept active if the individual is currently working or within the past 24 months, worked in a nursing home, hospital, home health agency, hospice agency, or mental health facility. You must work at least 8 hours every 24 months in a nursing home, hospital, home health agency, hospice agency, or mental health facility. Volunteer work does not count. Private sitting, assisted living facilities, and doctor's office work does not count. Skilled nursing facilities are required to provide 12 hours of mandatory continuing education to CNAs (12 per year according to the date of hire for the CNA).

12 hours of mandatory continuing education to HHAs each year to be provided by the employer facility.

• All first time renewals are required to complete a 4 hour, Alabama Board provided course related to statutory and administrative frameworks for nursing regulation, scope of practice, and standards of practice, which can be located here.

RNs shall earn in each earning period not less than 24 contact hours of Board approved or Board-recognized continuing education as a condition for renewal of license for the subsequent license period. 

• All first time renewals are required to complete a 4 hour, Alabama Board provided course related to statutory and administrative frameworks for nursing regulation, scope of practice, and standards of practice, which can be located here.
• Certified Registered Nurse Practitioners (CRNP)  with prescriptive authority shall earn six contact hours of pharmacology content specific to prescriptive practice in the approved area for collaborative practice.

• All licensees are required to have a minimum of ten (10) hours of continuing education unless the license was obtained by exam within the past calendar year.
• All licensees licensed by endorsement in 2023 must provide 8 hours of continuing education and 2 hours of Alabama Jurisprudence continuing education.
• Licensees who plan to see patients without a referral (Direct Access) between June 1, 2024, and September 30, 2024, must have an additional 2 hours of CEU completed and reported during this year’s renewal cycle (total of 12 hours of CEU Credit).
• Continuing education submitted must be within the current two-year compliance period of October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2024.

• Alabama PT jurisprudance

Each physical therapy assistant licensed to practice by this Board shall complete for each compliance period, a minimum of ten (10) hours of continuing education activities. One hour of continuing education is defined as 50 minutes of engagement in the continuing education activity.
October 1 through September 30 of the next year shall constitute a compliance period

**Pre-approval for courses offered is not required. We will honor any coursework relevant to the practice of physical therapy.

• Alabama PT jurisprudance

1. Report and be able to furnish documentation of having completed a BOC-approved Emergency Cardiac Care Course during the current renewal year of December 1 through November 30.  Detailed guidelines are provided.
2. Report and be able to furnish proof of current BOC certification in the form of a copy of the current BOC Certification Card or printout of BOC on-line verification.  BOC certification shall be considered acceptable documentation that BOC-certified licensees are in compliance with the BOC’s continuing education requirements for ongoing credentialing. 

1. The licensed athletic trainers who were issued a license pursuant to Code of Ala 1975, Section 34-40-7, exempting them from BOC certification are required to report 26 contact hours of continuing education annually, with 7 of those hours being in an approved emergency cardiac care course.   Detailed continuing education guidelines and emergency cardiac care guidelines are provided.  Documentation must also be submitted on the forms furnished by the Board showing proof of completion of all 26 hours. 

RNs shall earn in each earning period not less than 24 contact hours of Board approved or Board-recognized continuing education as a condition for renewal of license for the subsequent license period. 

RNs shall earn in each earning period not less than 24 contact hours of Board approved or Board-recognized continuing education as a condition for renewal of license for the subsequent license period. 

RNs shall earn in each earning period not less than 24 contact hours of Board approved or Board-recognized continuing education as a condition for renewal of license for the subsequent license period. 

CEs not required. Competency assessments for each MAC employed by a facility must be conducted upon initial hire and annually thereafter by a licensed nurse. The licensed nurse must maintain records of the initial and annual competency validation on file at the facility.

1. Hold a valid, active permit.
2. Submit a completed electronic renewal application and required fees
3. Meet continuting education and/or competency validation requirements.