CE Mandate effective on and after January 1, 2025

Automatic reporting to boards

Required at least 1 hour on cultural competency

For all IL healthcare professionals

Beginning with renewals on and after January 1, 2025, healthcare professionals have a new statutorily mandated continuing education requirement of at least 1 hour in cultural competency that must be completed within 3 biennial renewal periods. To learn more about the requirement, visit Illinois General Assembly’s Bill Status page here. 

NetCE provides a collection of relevant, evidence-based courses to support Illinois healthcare professionals to meet their Illinois CE requirement. Courses that meet this mandate include:

• Implicit Bias in Health Care - 3 Hours  
• Cultural Competence: An Overview - 2 Hours  
• Intercultural Competence and Patient-Centered Care - 4 Hours  
• Providing Culturally Responsive Care to Asian Immigrants - 10 Hours  
•  Cultural Meanings of Death and Dying - 5 Hours  
• The Role of Spirituality in Health and Mental Health - 5 Hours  
• Promoting the Health of Gender and Sexual Minorities - 5 Hours  
• Clinical Care of the Transgender Patient - 10 Hours 

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3. Discuss best practices for providing culturally competent care to various patient populations.  

 4. Discuss key aspects of creating a welcoming and safe environment, including avoidance of discriminatory language and behaviors.

 1. Define cultural competence, implicit bias, and related terminology.

2. Outline social determinants of health and barriers to providing care.

NetCE’s courses are Illinois board approved. Additionally, NetCE is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). NetCE is also an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. 

Beginning with renewals on and after January 1, 2025, health care professionals have a new statutorily mandated continuing education requirement of at least 1 hour in cultural competency. The completion deadline is within 3 biennial renewal periods. A health care professional may count this one hour for completion of this course toward meeting the minimum credit hours required for continuing education. (PA 103-0531 enacted 8/11/2023 effective 1/1/2025). Any licensee whose next renewal is on or after January 1, 2025 is eligible to complete this requirement now. 

We support the CE/CME needs of the following licensed prescribers of controlled substances that are required to complete training related to the Illinois CE mandate: 

• Advanced Practice Registered Nurses 
• Physicians
  
• Physician Assistants
  
• Pharmacists
  

Yes, NetCE's courses are Illinois Board approved. Learn more about NetCE's accreditations & approvals for your profession

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