§ 21.133. Continuing education content.

 (a)  Continuing education must be relevant to patient care or professional nursing in a general or specialty area and enhance the knowledge and application of the physical, social, biological and behavioral sciences.

 (b)  Courses in areas related to nursing such as the following are acceptable:

   (1)  Human sexuality.

   (2)  Death, dying and grief.

   (3)  Foreign language relevant to health care.

   (4)  Therapeutic interpersonal relationship skills.

   (5)  Patient rights.

   (6)  Pharmacology.

 (c)  Courses in areas impacting nursing practice, such as nursing administration, management, education and diagnostic and procedural coding are acceptable.

 (d)  Group or individual research, as the principal or co-principal investigator, if approved by the institutional review board of the sponsoring institution, is acceptable and will be credited as 15 hours of continuing education.

 (e)  Nonprofessional course content not directly related to patient care, such as courses in self-improvement, changes in attitude, financial gain, courses designed for lay people, basic life support or cardiopulmonary resusitation, mandatory annual education on facility specific policies unrelated to nursing practice (such as facility leave policies) and employment orientation programs are not acceptable for meeting requirements for license renewal.

   The provisions of this §  21.133 adopted under sections 2.1(k) and 12 of The Professional Nursing Law (63 P. S. § §  212 and 212.1(k).

   The provisions of this §  21.133 adopted July 11, 2008, effective July 12, 2008, 38 Pa.B. 3796.

   This section cited in 49 Pa. Code §  21.134 (relating to continuing education sources).