South Dakota Nurse Practitioner CE Requirements

Renewal cycle

2 years (biennial); CNP license expiration is tied to the SD RN license renewal period (ARSD 20:62:02:05)

Total CE hours

None beyond national certification. ARSD 20:62:02:06 requires biennial renewal with (1) an unencumbered SD RN license/privilege and (2) evidence of current national certification in the role/population focus. No CE contact-hour requirement exists for CNP renewal (and South Dakota also has no CE requirement for RN renewal).

Pharmacology CE

None. No state pharmacology-specific CE requirement; the state defers entirely to maintenance of national certification (e.g., ANCC PMHNP-BC recertification, which itself includes pharmacotherapeutics requirements, but that is the certifier's rule, not South Dakota's).

Controlled-substance CE

None state-mandated for renewal. South Dakota has no state opioid/controlled-substance CE requirement for APRN license renewal. (Federal one-time 8-hour DEA MATE Act training still applies to DEA registrants.)

Good to know

Verified directly from ARSD 20:62:02:05 and 20:62:02:06 (SD Legislature official rules text). CNPs licensed before June 26, 1996 are exempt from the certification-evidence requirement. The 1,040 practice-hours rule sometimes cited for SD relates to removing the collaborative-agreement requirement (full practice authority), not to renewal CE. SD is an NLC compact state for the RN license underlying the CNP license.

Official sources