Missouri Continuing Education Requirements

Missouri does not require continuing education for RN renewal.

Maintain certification

For APRNs who are non-certified:

Provide evidence of eight-hundred (800) hours of clinical practice in the advanced practice nursing clinical specialty area within the past two (2) years. In order to meet this requirement, please submit a statement from your employer/supervisor on letterhead that includes their complete name, address and telephone number for each clinical setting employed within the past two (2) years, including specification of your clinical practice role and responsibilities (e.g. written job description) and the total number of clinical hours completed in each setting in order to account for the minimum total of eight-hundred (800) hours.  
 
Provide documents showing a minimum of sixty (60) contact hours in your advanced practice nursing clinical specialty area offered by an accredited college/university within the past (2) years
 

Perform paid nursing services of at least one (1) day in a twenty-four (24) consecutive month period of time. 

minimum of four (4) hours of medication administration training every two (2) years in order to administer medications in an RCF or ALF. The training shall be:
Offered by an approved instructor and
Documented on Level I Medication Aide Biennial Training form, MO 580-2973 (12/10), and kept in the employee’s personnel file. (The department will also accept DMH’s Medication Aide Bi-Annual Training Form MO 650-8730 (12/00) incorporated by reference in the rule as acceptable documentation.)

Physical Therapists and Physical Therapy Assistants are required to earn 30 hours of acceptable continuing education every two years.

Physical Therapists and Physical Therapy Assistants are required to earn 30 hours of acceptable continuing education every two years.

The occupational therapist shall earn twenty-four (24) Continuing Competency Credits (CCC) in the two (2) years of the renewal period. 

One (1) CEU = ten (10) CCCs
One (1) Contact hour = one (1) CCC

The occupational therapist shall earn twenty-four (24) Continuing Competency Credits (CCC) in the two (2) years of the renewal period. 

One (1) CEU = ten (10) CCCs
One (1) Contact hour = one (1) CCC

Athletic trainers will renew their license annually.  License period ends on 1/31. 

In order to renew their license, Athletic Trainers must maintain their BOC Certification; 50 CEUs every two years.