British Columbia - Canada Continuing Education Requirements

For the renewal application, nurses will be expected to:

• Update your employment history and contact information
• Provide information about any criminal charges or convictions over the past year
• Consent to a criminal record check (if applicable)
• Report your practice hours from the preceding year (view the RN requirement)
• Meet your quality assurance requirements
• Acknowledge you have read and understood all of the consent and declaration requirements
• Pay your renewal fee

RNs need to work a minimum of 1,125 hours over the preceding five-year period to renew their practicing registration. There is no minimum on a per-year basis.

Alternatives to 1,125 recognized hours are:

• Successful completion of a registered nursing education program.
• Successful completion of a nursing re-entry program recognized by BCCNM
• Successful completion of a supervised practice experience? approved by BCCNM
• Successful completion of an RN degree program? — or be currently enrolled in a full-time program — leading to a degree in nursing recognized by BCCNM.
• Completion of a recognized competency-based assessment and required coursework.

Quality Assurance requirements for NPs
meet minimum practice hours (900 practice hours over the last three years)
complete a self-assessment using CRNBC’s Standards of Practice
seek and receive peer feedback
create and implement a professional development plan based on your self-assessment, peer feedback and client documentation review
evaluate the effect of last year’s professional development on your practice
complete a critical review of your client documentation
complete a minimum of three professional development activities from six categories of options
participate in an onsite peer review of practice, when scheduled by CRNBC
Nurse practitioners meet additional quality assurance requirements stemming from the legislated scope of nurse practitioner practice. The scope of nurse practitioner practice includes diagnosis of diseases, authority to order diagnostic tests, treatment of diseases, and authority to prescribe.