Board Criteria for Nursing Refresher Course: Appendices to Minnesota Administrative Rules, Chapter 6305.0800 and 6310.3800, February 2012:
Refresher Course Criteria
Faculty Qualifications
- Baccalaureate degree in nursing minimum, masters preferred.
- Recent clinical experience or clinical teaching experience.
Course Content Guidelines
- Review of Nurse Practice Act, rules, position statements
- Determination of individual scope of practice
- Review of the clinical problem solving process (systematic approach) for the provision of individualized, goal directed care and evaluation
- Pharmacology review
- Medication administration
- Documentation, quality assurance and legal implications for nursing practice
Course Hour Requirements
- Theory
- 60 minimum including skills component
- Clinical
*Notice: Beginning January 1, 2025, new Refresher Course Criteria will go into effect for clinical/simulation guidelines and faculty qualifications. The new requirements are listed below.
Faculty Qualifications:
Practical Nurse Refresher Course Faculty Qualifications
- Ensure practical nursing faculty have a baccalaureate or graduate degree in nursing from a regionally or nationally accredited college or university.
- Clinical faculty or clinical preceptor must have clinical experience or clinical teaching experience within the last three years.
Professional Nurse Refresher Course Faculty Qualifications
- Ensure professional nursing faculty have a graduate degree from a regionally or nationally accredited college or university. If the major of the graduate degree is not in nursing, the faculty must hold a baccalaureate degree with a major in nursing.
- The refresher course faculty teaching didactic content, must hold a graduate degree. If the clinical portion is assigned to another faculty member, the clinical faculty must hold a baccalaureate or higher degree in nursing.
- Clinical faculty or clinical preceptor must have clinical experience or clinical teaching experience within the last three years.
Course Hour Requirements:
- 60 hours minimum theory portion, including skills component
- 80 hours minimum clinical portion. Simulation can be utilized for no more than half the time designated for meeting clinical requirements.
