Nursing Care and Healthcare

Professional and Continuing Nursing Education

Each year, a nurse must maintain continuing education credits in one of the several nursing programs, nursing  courses, or continuous competency records for the three licensing renewal cycles. While integrative treatments and alternative approaches may meet health requirements by encouraging comfort, healing, and well-being in nursing care, nursing ethics, a form of applied ethics, is concerned with actions in the area of nursing. The registered nurse practices in a way that is both ecologically safe and healthful, as per the Standards of Professional Nursing Practice. An authorized "volunteer retired nurse" must complete 10 hours of CNE for each two-year cycle of their permission renewal in order to provide exclusively voluntary charity care.