Volume 44 - Issue 3 - January 16, 2025
State of Kansas
Board of Nursing
Permanent Administrative Regulation
Article 3.—REQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSURE AND STANDARDS OF PRACTICE
60-3-114. Satisfactory completion of a refresher course approved by the board. (a) Each refresher course shall provide didactic instruction and clinical learning as follows:
(1) At least 120 clock-hours of didactic instruction; and
(2) clinical learning, which shall be verified by the preceptor and refresher course administrator or by the refresher course faculty member, according to the following requirements:
(A) For the registered professional nurse refresher course, 120 required clock-hours with 96 clock-hours in an acute care setting and 24 clock-hours in setting of choice; and
(B) for the licensed practical nurse refresher course, 90 clock-hours in an acute care or skilled nursing setting of choice.
(b) The didactic instruction and clinical learning content areas of the registered professional nurse refresher course shall be the following:
(1) Safe, effective care environment, including management of care and safety and infection control;
(2) health promotion and maintenance;
(3) psychosocial integrity;
(4) physiological integrity, including basic care and comfort, pharmacological and parenteral therapies, reduction of risk potential, and physiological adaptation; and
(5) integrated content, including the nursing process, caring, communication, documentation, teaching, and learning.
(c) The didactic instruction and clinical learning content areas of the licensed practical nurse refresher course shall be the following:
(1) Safe and effective care environment, including coordinated care and safety and infection control;
(2) health promotion and maintenance;
(3) psychosocial integrity;
(4) physiological integrity, including basic care and comfort, pharmacological therapies, reduction of risk potential, and physiological adaptation; and
(5) integrated content, including the nursing process, caring, communication, documentation, teaching, and learning.
(d) (1) Each refresher course student shall be supervised by the course faculty member or preceptor.
(2) All clinical learning experiences shall be under the direct supervision of a registered professional nurse. Direct supervision shall mean that a registered professional nurse observes, directs, and evaluates the refresher course student’s performance.
(3) The faculty member or preceptor shall be on site when the refresher course student is assigned responsibilities that include nursing skills and abilities in which the student has acquired proficiency and the care required is simple and routine.
(4) The faculty member or preceptor shall be on the premises when the refresher course student is assigned responsibilities that include nursing skills and abilities in which the student is gaining proficiency and the clients assigned to the student have severe or urgent conditions or are unstable, or both.
(5) Each student in a registered professional nurse refresher course shall demonstrate clinical skills appropriate for the scope of practice for the registered professional nurse.
(6) Each student in a licensed practical nurse refresher course shall demonstrate clinical skills appropriate for the scope of practice for the licensed practical nurse.
(7) Upon successful completion of the didactic portion of the refresher course, the unlicensed student shall submit an application for licensure in Kansas before beginning clinical learning. (Authorized by K.S.A. 65-1115, 65-1116, and 65-1129; implementing K.S.A. 65-1115 and 65-1116; effective Nov. 7, 2008; amended Jan. 31, 2025.)
Carol Moreland, MSN, RN
Executive Administrator
Board of Nursing
Doc. No. 052791
