Refresher Course Criteria

Board Criteria for Nursing Refresher Course: Appendices to Minnesota Administrative Rules, Chapter 6305.0800 and 6310.3800, February 2012:

Refresher Course Criteria

• 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.

• 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.
• Clinical faculty or clinical preceptor must have clinical experience or clinical teaching experience within the last three years.

• 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

• Theory
  • 60 hours minimum theory portion, including skills component.
    
    
• Clinical *revised January 2025
  • 80 hours minimum clinical portion. Simulation can be utilized for no more than half the time designated for meeting clinical requirements.