CE Requirements for Nursing in Iowa

RNs, LPNs, and APNs are required to complete 36 contact hours every three year licensing period. Nurses who have frequent contact or observation with children and/or dependent adults require 2 contact hours of mandatory reporting of child/dependent/adult abuse every five years.

The Mandatory Abuse Course taken to meet this requirement MUST be a course that has been approved by the Public Health Abuse Education Review Panel.

For renewal of a license that has been issued for less than three years, the requirement is 24 contact hours. For reactivation from an inactive status, the requirement is 12 contact hours that are not more than 12 months old at the time the credit is submitted for reactivation. For renewal of a license that has been issued for less than three years, the requirement is 24 contact hours or 2.4 CEUs.