Colorado Code
Part 1 - Nurses and Nurse Aides
§ 12-255-129. Continuing Education - Rules

In addition to any other authority conferred upon the board by this part 1, the board is authorized to require no more than twenty hours of continuing education every two years as a condition of renewal of licenses and to establish procedures and standards for the educational requirements. The board shall, to assure that the continuing education requirements imposed do not have the effect of restraining competition among providers of the education, recognize a variety of alternative means of compliance with the requirements. The board shall adopt rules that are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section in accordance with article 4 of title 24.
Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1357, § 1, effective October 1. L. 2020: Entire section amended, (HB 20-1183), ch. 157, p. 685, § 26, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-38-127 as it existed prior to 2019.

Structure Colorado Code

Colorado Code

Title 12 - Professions and Occupations

Article 255 - Nurses and Nurse Aides

Part 1 - Nurses and Nurse Aides

§ 12-255-101. Short Title

§ 12-255-102. Legislative Declaration

§ 12-255-103. Applicability of Common Provisions

§ 12-255-104. Definitions

§ 12-255-105. State Board of Nursing Created - Removal of Board Members - Meetings of Board

§ 12-255-106. Employees - Executive Administrator

§ 12-255-107. Powers and Duties of the Board - Rules - Definition

§ 12-255-108. Advisory Committee

§ 12-255-109. Examination

§ 12-255-110. Requirements for Professional Nurse Licensure

§ 12-255-111. Requirements for Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Registration - Legislative Declaration - Advanced Practice Registry - Rules

§ 12-255-112. Prescriptive Authority - Advanced Practice Registered Nurses - Limits on Prescriptions - Rules - Financial Benefit for Prescribing Prohibited

§ 12-255-113. Professional Liability Insurance Required - Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in Independent Practice - Rules

§ 12-255-114. Requirements for Practical Nurse Licensure

§ 12-255-115. Volunteer Nurse Licensure

§ 12-255-116. Persons Licensed Under Previous Laws

§ 12-255-117. Temporary Licenses and Permits

§ 12-255-118. Approval of Educational Programs

§ 12-255-118.5. Approved Nurse Aide Training Programs

§ 12-255-119. Disciplinary Procedures of the Board - Inquiry and Hearings Panels - Mental and Physical Examinations - Definitions - Rules

§ 12-255-120. Grounds for Discipline - Definitions

§ 12-255-121. Withholding or Denial of License - Hearing - Definitions

§ 12-255-122. Inactive License Status - Reactivation

§ 12-255-123. Immunity in Professional Review

§ 12-255-124. Surrender of License

§ 12-255-125. Unauthorized Practice - Penalties

§ 12-255-126. Injunctive Proceedings

§ 12-255-127. Exclusions

§ 12-255-128. Prescribing Opiate Antagonists

§ 12-255-129. Continuing Education - Rules

§ 12-255-130. Nursing Peer Health Assistance or Nurse Alternative to Discipline Program - Fund - Rules

§ 12-255-131. Delegation of Nursing Tasks - Rules

§ 12-255-132. School Nurses - Over-the-Counter Medication

§ 12-255-133. Licensee Duties Relating to Assistance Animals - Definitions

§ 12-255-133.5. Licensee Duties Related to Medical Forensic Evidence

§ 12-255-134. Repeal of Article - Subject to Review

§ 12-255-135. Confidential Agreement to Limit Practice

§ 12-255-136. Change of Name - Direction to Revisor - Repeal