Friday, July 24, 2009

California CEU Requirements

This is THE bible according to CA CEU's for RNs, straight from the CA BRN. It lists what courses are acceptable and what are not.
What can be used for credit is pretty broad, but there are exceptions and giving you a rundown might be useful. For example, although yoga and weight loss classes would keep a person healthy and possibly sane, they can't be used for CEU's.
Spanish and any other verbal language courses are OK, sign language is given a thumbs down. For those going on in their formal education, note that the required basic courses in physical, social and behavioral sciences for RNs who are obtaining a baccalaureate or graduate degree or specialty certification can be used. Statistics also counts, which is useful since most BSN and MSN programs require that you have taken Stats within the last 3 years, some even require anatomy and physiology within the last 5 years as well. So by the time a new ADN graduates, she will have taken Stats about 5 years before because the wait lists are so long. It's good to know that taking it again will be useful for something else. This is the rate: one quarter unit is equivalent to ten contact hours and one semester unit counts as fifteen contact hours. So my Stats class, would be worth 60 hours, more than enough to meet the 30 contact hours required for two years. Lastly and most interestingly, "self-improvement" classes do not qualify, however, assertiveness training does and I don't think anyone would argue that assertiveness isn't self improvement.

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