Maintaining MA RN licensure without clinical practice?

[cfrimer]

I am currently practicing as an APRN doing full-time clinical work as an NP in MA. I am thinking about leaving clinical practice though, and am interviewing for non-clinical non-patient care types of jobs.

If I go down this path, I would like to maintain my RN license (although probably not my NP certification). What is required to keep the RN license active? I looked at the mass.gov nursing website, and it appears that I only need to have 15 contact CEUs per 2-year renewal period in order to renew??? Is that right? There is NO clinical practice hours requirement? (I know the NP cert requires 1000 hrs clinical practice per 5 years.) Can anyone in a similar position of maintaining active RN license but not doing patient-care-related work comment? Thank you very much!!

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Sad you are leaving clinical practice after all your hard work....If you don't mind me asking...why are you leaving?

No clinical hours are needed.....not in any state that I know of...for your RN.

[cfrimer]

Thanks for your reply. The short answer to why I am leaving is that I am basically burned out. Not enough time to spend in the way I want to spend it with patients. (Or rather, I AM spending the time, but then work too many hours too often to be sustainable for my life.) I do love working with patients, and ideally would find a position that includes some proportion of clinical time - just not 100% of time. What I would love is to find a research position that includes both clinical time and research time... I am still looking!