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I have 2 questions. I have an lvn and rn active license in Texas. It's time to renew in april 2019 and they are both due at the same time. I know I would have to do 20 hrs for lvn renewal but this will be my first time to renew my rn do I still have to do the 20 cne hrs?

Second question. I am taking time off work for a while to have a baby and I won't be going back until April 2019 to work. Can I leave my rn license active or do i have to make it inactive?

I read the Texas board of nursing website but i still have questions.

Thanks

I have 2 questions. I have an lvn and rn active license in Texas. It's time to renew in april 2019 and they are both due at the same time. I know I would have to do 20 hrs for lvn renewal but this will be my first time to renew my rn do I still have to do the 20 cne hrs?

Second question. I am taking time off work for a while to have a baby and I won't be going back until April 2019 to work. Can I leave my rn license active or do i have to make it inactive?

I read the Texas board of nursing website but i still have questions.

Thanks

From the renewal form, itself:

CONTINUING COMPETENCY

If this is the first timely renewal of your Texas nursing license, Continuing Competency (CC) requirements are waived. Otherwise, you are required to complete 20 contact hours of continuing competency that meet the Board's criteria set out in 22 TAC Chapter 216 prior to applying for the renewal of your license.

Why would you want to renew your LVN license? You can (and should) keep your RN license active during your maternity leave.

Specializes in Ambulatory Care-Family Medicine.

If you have both in Texas you are forced to renew both. When you go to renew it doesn't give you an option to just renew your RN, it automatically puts the LVN on there also and you have to pay the fee for both.

Your CE hours count for both so you only need to do 20 total, not 40. If this is your first time to renew your RN you're not required to do any hours for that one but you still have to do the 20 for the LVN.

Keep your license active while on maternity leave. It costs to put it in inactive and then back in active. I've never known anyone who put it inactive just for maternity leave.

If you have both in Texas you are forced to renew both. When you go to renew it doesn't give you an option to just renew your RN, it automatically puts the LVN on there also and you have to pay the fee for both.

That cannot possibly be true. I've never been an LVN in Texas though, just an RN. I'm dying for some additional input, here.

Anybody?

According to the instructions on the website, if you have both licenses, you can renew one or both. https://www.bon.texas.gov/pdfs/licensure_pdfs/license_renewal_pdfs/RenewRN-LVN_2018-01-12.pdf

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