3 Hours Pharmacology and High-Alert Medications - Michigan Nursing

3 Hours Pharmacology and High-Alert Medications - Michigan Nursing

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

Earn 3 contact hours toward your Michigan 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 Michigan law on the practice of nursing and the safeguards that protect your patients.

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. Michigan nurses certify their own continuing education when they renew, so save your certificate in case you are selected for an audit.

✅ Course Details

• Course name: 3 Hours Pharmacology and High-Alert Medications - Michigan Nursing
• Approved by: California Board of Registered Nursing
• Provider number: CEP 18292
• Michigan use: Accepted by the Michigan Board of Nursing toward RN and LPN license renewal (Michigan accepts CE approved by another state board of nursing)
• Contact hours: 3 contact hours (each contact hour is 60 minutes of instruction)
• 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: Michigan nurses certify CE on the renewal application; keep your certificate for 4 years
• Support: Call or text 1-800-698-2770

✅ Who Should Take This Course?

This course is written for:

• Michigan 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 Michigan Requirement?

This course provides 3 contact hours toward the 25 hours Michigan RNs and LPNs need in each two-year renewal period. It does not satisfy the full requirement by itself, and it is not the pain and symptom management or implicit bias training Michigan requires.

This course is included in the 25 Hour Michigan RN and LPN Complete Renewal Package, which provides all 25 hours for $39.99.

✅ Michigan RN and LPN Continuing Education Requirements

Michigan registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) must complete at least 25 hours of board-approved continuing education during the two years before their license expires. The Michigan Board of Nursing accepts continuing education approved by another state board of nursing, such as the California Board of Registered Nursing (R 338.10602).

• RNs and LPNs: At least 25 hours of continuing education in each two-year renewal period (R 338.10601)
• Pain and symptom management: At least 2 of the 25 hours (R 338.10601(2))
• Implicit bias training: 1 hour for each year of the license cycle, which is 2 hours for a two-year license; these hours may count toward the 25 (R 338.7004)
• Human trafficking: A one-time training under R 338.10105; it does not earn credit toward the 25 hours
• Credit hour: 1 credit hour for each 60 minutes of participation when an activity was not approved for a set number of hours (R 338.10602)
• Limits: No more than 12 credit hours in a 24-hour period, and no credit for repeating the same activity in a renewal period
• Records: Keep proof of your continuing education for 4 years after you apply for renewal (6 years for implicit bias training)
• Proposed changes: Proposed rules would move nursing to a three-year license cycle; they are not yet in effect

How this course helps: This 3-hour course contributes 3 contact hours toward your Michigan total of 25 hours. You will still need 22 more hours during the same renewal period, including the required pain and symptom management and implicit bias training if this course does not cover them.

✅ When Do Michigan Nurses Renew?

Michigan nursing licenses renew every two years. Expiration dates vary, so check the expiration date printed on your license or shown in MiPLUS.

If you miss your expiration date, Michigan allows renewal within 60 days after it with a late renewal fee. After 60 days the license is void, and you must apply for relicensure before you practice again.

Complete your continuing education during the two years before your license expires, and keep your records in case you are selected for the Board's random audit.

✅ How to Renew Your Michigan Nursing License

1. Check your record. Sign in to MiPLUS, Michigan's online licensing system, to confirm your expiration date.
2. Complete your hours. Finish at least 25 hours of approved continuing education, including 2 hours of pain and symptom management and your implicit bias training, during the two years before your license expires.
3. Save your certificates. Keep proof of completion for 4 years after you renew (6 years for implicit bias training). If you are audited, you will upload documentation to CE Broker.
4. Start your renewal. Renew online in MiPLUS before your expiration date.
5. Certify your continuing education. Submitting the renewal application certifies that you met the continuing education requirements.
6. Pay the fee. The two-year renewal fee for RNs and LPNs is $131.
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:

• Apply Michigan's definition of nursing practice in MCL 333.17201 and the grounds for discipline in MCL 333.16221 to medication administration
• Identify the high-alert medications on the ISMP acute care list and the expectations of Joint Commission National Performance Goal 14
• 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, Michigan quality review protections, 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): Michigan Law on the Practice of Nursing, Clinical Pharmacology, and the High-Alert Medication Concept

• Michigan 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 Michigan Nursing Courses

Build the rest of your hours with these courses:

• 25 Hour Michigan RN and LPN Complete Renewal Package – $39.99
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• 2 Hours Infection Prevention and Control - Michigan Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Pain and Symptom Management, Opioid Safety, MAPS and Naloxone - Michigan Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Mental Health and Suicide Prevention - Michigan Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Implicit Bias, Cultural Humility, and Health Equity in Michigan Health Care - Michigan Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Nursing Documentation and the Michigan Medical Records Access Act - Michigan Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Nursing Ethics and Professional Boundaries - Michigan Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Alzheimer's and Dementia Care - Michigan Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Palliative and End-of-Life Care and Michigan Advance Care Planning - Michigan Nursing – $19.99
• 2 Hours Reporting Abuse and Neglect, Michigan Children and Vulnerable Adults - Michigan Nursing – $19.99
• 1 Hour Michigan Nursing Law, Licensure Renewal and Professional Accountability - Michigan Nursing – $14.99
• 1 Hour Human Trafficking, Identifying and Helping Victims in Michigan Health Care - Michigan Nursing – $14.99

✅ Why Choose 1st Choice CE?

• Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (CEP 18292)
• Michigan accepts CE approved by another state board of nursing
• 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 Michigan 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.