3 Hours Pharmacology and High-Alert Medications - Kansas Nursing

3 Hours Pharmacology and High-Alert Medications - Kansas Nursing

✅ Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing | Provider #CEP 18292 | Accepted by the Kansas State Board of Nursing | 3 Contact Hours | Only $24.99 | Instant Emailed Certificate | 100% Online & Self-Paced

Earn 3 contact hours toward your Kansas RN or LPN license renewal with an online pharmacology and high-alert medication safety course from a California BRN-approved provider, all for only $24.99. The course covers the medications most likely to cause serious harm, including anticoagulants, insulin, concentrated electrolytes, opioids, and sedation agents, along with the Kansas nursing law that frames your role in giving them.

Work at your own pace and log in and out as often as you like without losing your progress. There is no final exam. Complete each section and a short course evaluation, and your certificate of completion is emailed to you immediately. Kansas nurses attest to their own continuing nursing education when they renew, so save your certificate in case your renewal is selected for audit.

✅ Course Details

• Course name: 3 Hours Pharmacology and High-Alert Medications - Kansas Nursing
• Approved by: California Board of Registered Nursing
• Provider number: CEP 18292
• Kansas use: Accepted by the Kansas State Board of Nursing toward RN and LPN license renewal (KSBN accepts CNE from providers approved by other state boards of nursing)
• Contact hours: 3 contact hours (150 minutes; each Kansas contact hour is 50 minutes)
• Category: Nursing continuing education for RNs and LPNs
• Format: 100% online, self-paced, text-based course with no final exam
• Instructor: Valeria Garcia, BSN, RN
• Price: $24.99
• Certificate: Emailed instantly when you finish
• Reporting: Kansas nurses attest to CNE on the renewal application; keep your certificate for a possible audit
• Support: Call or text 1-800-698-2770

✅ Who Should Take This Course?

This course is written for:

• Kansas registered nurses and licensed practical nurses renewing their license
• Acute care and medical-surgical nurses who give high-alert medications
• Long-term care and home health nurses who manage insulin, anticoagulants, and opioids
• Emergency, critical care, procedural, and perioperative nurses
• Transitional care and discharge nurses who teach patients about high-risk drugs
• Nurses who want a practical pharmacology refresher

✅ Does This Course Satisfy the Kansas Requirement?

This course provides 3 contact hours toward the 30 contact hours Kansas RNs and LPNs need in each two-year licensing period. It does not satisfy the full requirement by itself. Kansas does not require specific subjects, so these hours count toward your total when you complete them during your current licensing period.

This course is included in the 30 Hour Kansas RN and LPN Complete Renewal Package, which provides all 30 contact hours for $39.99.

✅ Kansas RN and LPN Continuing Education Requirements

Kansas registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) must complete 30 contact hours of approved continuing nursing education (CNE) during each two-year licensing period to renew their license. The Kansas State Board of Nursing accepts CNE from providers approved by other state boards of nursing, such as the California Board of Registered Nursing.

• RNs and LPNs: 30 contact hours of approved CNE in each two-year licensing period
• Required subjects: None for RN or LPN renewal
• Contact hour: 50 minutes of participation; fractions of 30 minutes or more count toward a contact hour (K.A.R. 60-9-105 and 60-9-106)
• Carryover: Hours over 30 do not carry over to the next renewal period
• First renewal: Not required if your license expires within 30 months of your initial licensure exam, or within 9 months after reinstatement or endorsement
• Not accepted: Offerings under 30 minutes, repeated identical offerings in the same period, and in-service, orientation, or on-the-job training
• Audits: Have your certificates ready to submit to the Board if your renewal is selected for audit

How this course helps: This 3-hour course contributes 3 contact hours toward your Kansas total. RNs and LPNs will still need 27 more contact hours during the same licensing period. Because Kansas has no required subjects, these hours apply to your general total.

✅ When Do Kansas Nurses Renew?

Kansas nursing licenses renew every two years. Your license expires on the last day of your birth month, in odd-numbered years if you were born in an odd-numbered year and in even-numbered years if you were born in an even-numbered year. A newly issued license may have a longer first period, so check the expiration date on your license record.

You can renew online during the renewal window, which opens 90 days before your expiration date. Kansas has no grace period: a license that is not renewed by the expiration date lapses, and you must apply for reinstatement before you practice again.

Complete your 30 contact hours during the licensing period that is ending, before you submit your renewal.

✅ How to Renew Your Kansas Nursing License

1. Check your record. Sign in to KSBN's My Portal to confirm your license expiration date and renewal window.
2. Complete your hours. Finish 30 contact hours of approved continuing nursing education during your licensing period.
3. Save your certificates. Keep each certificate so you can submit it if the Board selects your renewal for audit. Certificates show the offering title, provider, provider number, date, and contact hours; note your license number on your records.
4. Start your renewal. Sign in to My Portal and select Renew License during the 90-day renewal window, before your expiration date.
5. Answer the CNE questions. Attest that you completed the required continuing nursing education on the renewal application.
6. Pay the fee. The biennial renewal fee for RNs and LPNs is $85.
7. Confirm your renewal. Verify that your license shows the new expiration date, and keep your certificates.

✅ What You Will Learn

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Explain how the Kansas Nurse Practice Act definition of nursing practice and the grounds for discipline apply to giving medications, delegating, and questioning an order
• Identify the high-alert medications on the ISMP acute care list most relevant to your practice
• Use independent double checks, barcode scanning, and smart pumps, and recognize their limits
• Monitor and safely manage anticoagulants, insulin, sulfonylureas, and concentrated electrolytes
• Assess and respond to opioid-induced sedation and respiratory depression, including naloxone use
• Respond to a medication error, including disclosure, reporting under the Kansas risk management law, and just culture
• Recognize how implicit bias can affect medication and pain decisions

✅ Course Content Overview

The course is organized into three one-hour sections:

Section 1 (1 Hour): Kansas Law on the Practice of Nursing, Clinical Pharmacology, and the High-Alert Medication Concept

• Kansas Law on the Practice of Nursing and the Nurse's Role in Medication Administration
• Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Principles That Change Bedside Risk
• What Makes a Medication High-Alert: The ISMP Acute Care List
• Error-Prone Steps in the Medication-Use Process and Joint Commission National Performance Goal 14
• Independent Double Checks, Barcode Scanning, and Smart Pumps: What They Catch and What They Miss
• Patient-Specific Risk Factors and Implicit Bias in Medication Decisions

Section 2 (1 Hour): Anticoagulants, Insulin, Oral Hypoglycemics, and Concentrated Electrolytes

• Heparin, Low Molecular Weight Heparin, and Warfarin: Monitoring and Reversal
• Direct Oral Anticoagulants, Antiplatelet Combinations, and Anticoagulant Transitions
• Insulin Safety, Concentrated Insulin, and Hospital Hypoglycemia
• Oral Sulfonylureas, Older Adults, and Potentially Inappropriate Medications
• Concentrated Electrolytes: Potassium, Phosphate, Magnesium, and Hypertonic Saline
• Sterile Water, Hypertonic Dextrose, Tranexamic Acid, and Oxytocin

Section 3 (1 Hour): Opioids, Sedation, Neuromuscular Blockers, Equitable Pain Care, and Responding to Medication Errors

• Opioid Safety in the Hospital: Sedation, Respiratory Depression, PCA, and Transdermal Products
• Opioids Combined With Benzodiazepines and Other Depressants, and the Role of Naloxone
• Moderate Sedation Agents and Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
• Equitable Pain Assessment and Treatment
• Responding to Medication Errors: Patient Care, Disclosure, Reporting, and Just Culture
• Medication Reconciliation, Care Transitions, and Patient Teaching for High-Alert Medications

✅ Other Kansas Nursing Courses

Build the rest of your hours with these courses:

• 30 Hour Kansas RN and LPN Complete Renewal Package – $39.99
• 4 Hours Diabetes Management - Kansas Nursing – $29.99
• 2 Hours Patient Safety and Medication Errors - Kansas Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Infection Prevention and Control - Kansas Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Cardiac Emergencies - Kansas Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Pain and Opioid Safety, K-TRACS and Naloxone - Kansas Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Mental Health and Suicide Prevention - Kansas Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Implicit Bias, Cultural Humility, and Health Equity in Kansas Health Care - Kansas Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Nursing Ethics, Professional Boundaries and the Kansas Nurse Practice Act - Kansas Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Alzheimer's and Dementia Care - Kansas Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Reporting Abuse, Neglect and Human Trafficking, Kansas Children and Adults - Kansas Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Nursing Documentation and Kansas Health Records - Kansas Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Wound Care and Pressure Injury Prevention - Kansas Nursing – $19.99
• 1 Hour Palliative and End-of-Life Care and Kansas Advance Directives - Kansas Nursing – $14.99

✅ Why Choose 1st Choice CE?

• Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (CEP 18292)
• Accepted by the Kansas State Board of Nursing for RN and LPN renewal
• Affordable pricing: only $24.99 for 3 contact hours
• 100% online and self-paced
• Log in and out anytime without losing progress
• Instant emailed certificate
• Money-back guarantee
• Over 10 years of continuing education experience
• Support by phone or text at 1-800-698-2770

✅ Enroll Now

Get 3 contact hours toward your Kansas RN or LPN renewal for only $24.99. Enroll today, work at your own pace, and receive your certificate by email the moment you finish.

Questions before you enroll? Call or text us at 1-800-698-2770.