Utah Nurse Practitioner CE Requirements

• APRN licenses renew every 2 years (biennial).
• Licenses expire January 31 of even-numbered years.

• No CE-hour requirement beyond national certification for most APRNs — you must be currently certified or recertified in your specialty area (R156-31b-303(3)(b)).
• Only APRNs licensed before July 1, 1992 may instead show 30 hours of approved CE plus 400 practice hours in the 2-year period.

• No general pharmacology-specific CE requirement — deferred to national certification maintenance.
• The pharmacology-adjacent state mandate is the controlled-substance prescribing CE (see below).

• 4 hours per 2-year renewal for APRNs authorized to prescribe controlled substances (Utah Code 58-37-6.5; R156-37-402; R156-31b-303(3)(b)(ii)):
  • 3.5 hours of approved controlled-substance prescribing CE
  • 0.5 hours from DOPL's online controlled-substance database tutorial
• Also required: at least one approved online suicide prevention training course per renewal (counts for 0.5 CE).

• The 0.5-hour tutorial portion can be waived in some cases if you attest to controlled-substance database use (R156-37-402).
• Utah's PMHNP-specific supervised-hours rule (4,000 hours of psych-mental-health practice) applies to initial licensure, not renewal.
• RN-level renewal options (400 practice hours, or 200 hours + 15 CE hours, or 30 CE hours) are subsumed for APRNs by the certification requirement.

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