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Alaska Continuing Education Requirements

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In 2018, the State of Alaska’s Department of Health & Social Services set out to take control over the state’s most wide-spread epidemic – the opioid crisis – by issuing a five-year action plan that affected most day-to-day operations in hospitals throughout the state.

Although this is a nation-wide epidemic, from 2010 to 2017, Alaska alone saw over 600 deaths attributed to opioid overdose, and felt the need to combat this crisis in one way or another. Hospitals began changing the way they treat patients with opioid addiction, as they found that a trip to the emergency room could be a crucial window of time to help people on their way to recovery. One of the overarching goals identified by the state’s campaign included, “Preventing opioid overdose deaths through widespread availability and the appropriate use of naloxone and improved health provider and drug prescriber education.”

Medical professionals, including nurses, have made a great, overall impact on the state’s chance to combat the opioid crisis by providing patients with medicine that eases the transition to seeking the additional care, as well as making sure the patient is connected to a network of providers who can ensure this continuation of a medication-assisted treatment.

Alaska Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

Alaska Requires
24 Hours
Every two years
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Alaska requires
24 hours Every two years
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Last Updated: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
An applicant for renewal of a nurse aide certification must have successfully completed 24 contact hours of continuing education during the concluding certification period.
Special Requirements
(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, an applicant for renewal of a nurse aide certification must have successfully completed 24 contact hours of continuing education during the concluding certification period.

(b) An applicant for renewal of a nurse aide certification for the first time:
(1) must have successfully completed 12 contact hours of continuing education during the concluding certification period, if the applicant has been certified for at least one year during that period; and
(2) is not required to complete continuing education requirements for the concluding certification period, if the applicant has been certified for less than one year during that period.
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Board of Nursing
Phone: 907-269-8169 Website: Visit Site Email: Contact Address: Robert B. Atwood Building , 550 W. 7th Avenue
Suite 1500
Anchorage  99501-3567

Alaska Home Health Aid (HHA)

ANCC
Approved Provider
#P0274
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
Last Updated: Friday, October 21, 2022
CEs not required.
No CE required
Special Requirements
Must have a CNA certification.
Nurse Aide Registry
Phone: 907-269-8169 Website: Visit Site Address: Robert B. Atwood Building , 550 W. 7th Avenue
Suite 1500
Anchorage  99501-3567

Alaska Registered Nurse (RN)

Alaska Requires
30 Hours
Every two years
ANCC
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#P0274
Alaska requires
30 hours Every two years
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
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Last Updated: Wednesday, October 26, 2022
This is ONE of multiple methods that can be used towards continuing competency.  You must complete 2 out of the 3 methods to renew your license.
 
  1. 320 hours of nursing employment
  2. 30 hours continuing education
  3. 30 hours of uncompensated professional nursing activities
No more than 10 contact hours may be earned through in-service nursing education offered by a licensed health care facility.

Note:  Providing nursing care to the nurse’s immediate family members does not qualify as uncompensated professional nursing activities.  In this subsection, immediate family member means a parent, sibling, spouse, child, parent-in-law, sibling in law, step-child, or same-sex or opposite-sex domestic partner. 
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Alaska Board of Nursing
Phone: 907-269-8161 Fax: 907-269-8156 Website: Visit Site Email: Contact Address: Robert B. Atwood Building , 550 W. 7th Avenue
Suite 1500
Anchorage  99501-3567

Alaska Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)

Alaska Requires
30 Hours
Every two years
ANCC
Approved Provider
#P0274
Alaska requires
30 hours Every two years
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
CEUfast Meets All Requirements
Last Updated: Thursday, October 27, 2022
This is ONE of multiple methods that can be used towards continuing competency.  You must complete 2 out of the 3 methods to renew your license.
 
  1. 320 hours of nursing employment
  2. 30 hours continuing education
  3. 30 hours of uncompensated professional nursing activities
No more than 10 contact hours may be earned through in-service nursing education offered by a licensed health care facility.

Note:  Providing nursing care to the nurse’s immediate family members does not qualify as uncompensated professional nursing activities.  In this subsection, immediate family member means a parent, sibling, spouse, child, parent-in-law, sibling in law, step-child, or same-sex or opposite-sex domestic partner. 
Special Requirements
If the applicant holds prescriptive authority under 12 AAC 44.440, specific continuing education required under 12 AAC 44.440(f) includes;
  1. 12 contact hours of continuing education in advanced pharmacotherapeutics.
  2. 12 contact hours of continuing education in clinical management of patients.
These 24 hours of continuing education may be counted as part of the continuing education hours described in
12 AAC 44.610 (a) (c ).


Prescriptive authority: complete no less than two hours of continuing education in pain management and opioid use and addiction 
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Alaska Board of Nursing
Phone: 907-269-8169 Fax: 907-269-8196 Website: Visit Site Email: Contact Address: Robert B. Atwood Building , 550 W. 7th Avenue
Suite 1500
Anchorage  99501-3567

Alaska Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Alaska Requires
30 Hours
Every two years
ANCC
Approved Provider
#P0274
Alaska requires
30 hours Every two years
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
CEUfast Meets All Requirements
Last Updated: Thursday, October 27, 2022
This is ONE of multiple methods that can be used towards continuing competency.  You must complete 2 out of the 3 methods to renew your license.
 
  1. 320 hours of nursing employment
  2. 30 hours continuing education
  3. 30 hours of uncompensated professional nursing activities
No more than 10 contact hours may be earned through in-service nursing education offered by a licensed health care facility.

Note:  Providing nursing care to the nurse’s immediate family members does not qualify as uncompensated professional nursing activities.  In this subsection, immediate family member means a parent, sibling, spouse, child, parent-in-law, sibling in law, step-child, or same-sex or opposite-sex domestic partner. 
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Alaska Board of Nursing
Phone: 907-269-8169 Fax: 907-269-8196 Website: Visit Site Email: Contact Address: Robert B. Atwood Building , 550 W. 7th Avenue
Suite 1500
Anchorage  99501-3567

Alaska Physical Therapist (PT)

ANCC
Approved Provider
#P0274
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
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Last Updated: Thursday, October 27, 2022
CEs not required.
A Physical Therapist that has been licensed for 12 months or more of the concluding licensing period shall have completed 24 contact hours of continuing education.

A PT who has been licensed for less than 12 months of the concluding licensing period shall have:
  1. completed during the period 12 contact hours of continuing education; or
  2. passed the national physical therapy examination within 12m months immediately before the date the applicant's license is due to lapse. 
CEUFast is able to provide courses approved by the Florida Board of Physical Therapy Association.
Special Requirements
Routine courses required for employment: CPR, first aid, training related to OSHA requirements will not be accepted for license renewals.
Board of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy
Phone: 907-465-2580 Fax: 907-465-2974 Website: Visit Site Email: Contact Address: 333 Willoughby Avenue, 9th Floor P.O. Box 110806
P.O. Box 110806
Juneau  99811-0806

Alaska Occupational Therapist (OT)

ANCC
Approved Provider
#P0274
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
CEUfast Meets All Requirements
Last Updated: Thursday, October 27, 2022
CEs not required.
An Occupational Therapist who has been licensed for 12 months or more of the concluding licensing period shall have completed 24 contact hours of continuing education. 

An OT who has been licensed for less than 12 months shall have:
  1. completed during that period 12 contact hours of continuing education; or
  2. passed the national occupational therapy examination within 12 months immediately before the date that the applicant's license is due to lapse.
Board of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy
Phone: 907-465-2580 Fax: 907-465-2974 Website: Visit Site Email: Contact Address: 333 Willoughby Avenue, 9th Floor P.O. Box 110806
P.O. Box 110806
Juneau  99811-0806

Alaska Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA)

ANCC
Approved Provider
#P0274
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
CEUfast Meets All Requirements
Last Updated: Thursday, October 27, 2022
CEs not required.
A Physical Therapist Assistant that has been licensed for 12 months or more of the concluding licensing period shall have completed 24 contact hours of continuing education.

A PT who has been licensed for less than 12 months of the concluding licensing period shall have:
completed during the period 12 contact hours of continuing education; or
passed the national physical therapy examination within 12m months immediately before the date the applicant's license is due to lapse. 
 
Special Requirements
Routine courses required for employment: CPR, first aid, training related to OSHA requirements will not be accepted for license renewals.
Board of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy
Phone: 907-465-2580 Fax: 907-465-2974 Website: Visit Site Email: Contact Address: 333 Willoughby Avenue, 9th Floor P.O. Box 110806
P.O. Box 110806
Juneau  99811-0806

Alaska Occupational Therapist Assistant (OTA)

ANCC
Approved Provider
#P0274
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
CEUfast Meets All Requirements
Last Updated: Thursday, October 27, 2022
CEs not required.
An Occupational Therapy Assistant who has been licensed for 12 months or more of the concluding licensing period shall have completed 24 contact hours of continuing education. 

An OTA who has been licensed for less than 12 months shall have:
  1. Completed during that period 12 contact hours of continuing education; or
  2. Passed the national occupational therapy examination within 12 months immediately before the date that the applicant's license is due to lapse.
Board of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy
Phone: 907-465-2580 Fax: 907-465-2974 Website: Visit Site Email: Contact Address: 333 Willoughby Avenue, 9th Floor P.O. Box 110806
P.O. Box 110806
Juneau  99811-0806

Alaska Athletic Trainer (AT/AL)

Alaska Requires
50 Hours
Every two years
ANCC
Approved Provider
#P0274
Alaska requires
50 hours Every two years
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
Last Updated: Thursday, March 2, 2023
CEs not required.
Athletic Trainers must renew their license on 8/31 off odd-numbered years. 50 CEUs must be earned biennially.  10 CEUs of the 50 CEUs must be earned from the EBP category.

(CEUs are based on contact hours.  Contact hours are defined as the number of actual clock hours spent in direct participation in a structured education format as a learner.  One CEU is equivalent to 1 contact hour.)
 
Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, Athletic Trainers Program
Phone: 907-465-2550 Fax: 907-465-2974 Website: Visit Site Email: Contact Address: PO Box 110806
Juneau  99811

Alaska Respiratory Therapist (RT)

ANCC
Approved Provider
#P0274
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 30, 2019
CEs not required.
Alaska  does not require RTs to be licensed. However, it is necessary to successfully complete a respiratory therapy program at an accredited college/university.

Alaska Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)

ANCC
Approved Provider
#P0274
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
CEUfast Meets All Requirements
Last Updated: Thursday, October 27, 2022
CEs not required.
  1. holds national certification for each of the roles and population focus areas in which the applicant is seeking renewal;
If the applicant holds prescriptive authority under 12 AAC 44.440, has completed the continuing education required under 12 AAC 44.440(f);
  1. 12 contact hours of continuing education in advanced pharmacotherapeutics.
  2. 12 contact hours of continuing education in clinical management of patients.
Special Requirements
Prescriptive authority: complete no less than two hours of continuing education in pain management and opioid use and addiction 
Alaska Board of Nursing
Phone: 907-269-8169 Fax: 907-269-8196 Website: Visit Site Email: Contact Address: Robert B. Atwood Building , 550 W. 7th Avenue
Suite 1500
Anchorage  99501-3567

Alaska Certified Nurse Midwife

ANCC
Approved Provider
#P0274
ANCC
Approved Provider #P0274
CEUfast Meets All Requirements
Last Updated: Thursday, October 27, 2022
CEs not required.

20 contact hours of continuing education approved by the board during the concluding license period. The 20 contact hours must include the following:

at least four hours of the required continuing education contact hours must be in pharmacology; no more than two hours of the continuing education hours required under this paragraph may be in alternative medications, including herbology and homeopathy

at least two hours of the required continuing education contact hours must be for the completion of the self-study program described in 12 AAC 14.430(e)

No more than 10 of the required continuing education contact hours may be completed in a self-study program.

Alaska Board of Nursing
Phone: 907-269-8169 Fax: 907-269-8196 Website: Visit Site Email: Contact Address: Robert B. Atwood Building , 550 W. 7th Avenue
Suite 1500
Anchorage  99501-3567