Applicant Information

Refresher Course Information

A refresher course is needed when applicants for endorsement or reinstatement do not have qualifying work experience.

If you have not practiced nursing 320 hours within the five years before submitting a reinstatement or an endorsement application, the board requires that you complete a board-approved refresher course as required by AS 08.68.200(b)(2) or AS 08.68.251(1) or meet the continued competency requirements as listed in 12 AAC 44.600-660.

NOTE: You must receive prior approval from the Alaska Board of Nursing if you intend to take a refresher course from an institution other than the ones referenced below. The Board has approved the following refresher courses:

RN Refresher Courses:

• South Dakota State University, College of Nursing
  Office of Continuing Nursing Education
  Box 2275, Wagner Hall 201
  Brookings, SD 57007-0098
  Phone: 605.688.5745 – or toll free 888. 216.9806 option #5
  Fax: 605.688.6679
  Email: Linda.Lemme@sdstate.edu
  Website: RN Refresher Course
  Website: LPN Refresher Course


• University of Delaware Online Refresher course
  Division of Professional and Continuing Studies
  University of Delaware
  217 John M. Clayton Hall
  Newark, DE 19716
  Telephone: 302/831-7600
  Email: continuing-ed@UDel.edu
  Website: http://www.pcs.udel.edu/rnrefresher/index.html

• Casper College RN Refresher Course
  Casper College
  125 College Dr.
  Casper, WY 82601
  307-268-2085
  Attn: Ann Dalton
  Email: ADalton@caspercollege.edu

• PHES – Professional Healthcare Education Service
  Director of Nursing Refresher Program
  3727 Greenbriar Dr. #403
  Stafford, TX 77477
  Phone: 281-313-7437 or 877-313-7437
  Email: phes@windstream.net
  Website: phesonline.com
  RN: Course RNF 401

• Washington State University College of Nursing
  Professional Development – Room 153
  PO Box 1495
  Spokane WA 99210-1495
  Phone: 509-324-7219
  Attn: Nancy Oberst
  Email: noberst@wsu.edu
  Website: nursing.wsu.edu/continuing-education

LPN Refresher Courses:

• South Dakota State University, College of Nursing
  Office of Continuing Nursing Education
  Box 2275, Wagner Hall 207
  Brookings, SD 57007-0098
  Phone: 605.688.5745 – or toll free 888. 216.9806 option #5
  Fax: 605.688.6679
  Email:  Linda.Lemmem@sdstate.edu
  Website: www.sdstate.edu/nurs

• PHES – Professional Healthcare Education Service
  Director of Nursing Refresher Program
  3727 Greenbriar Dr. #403
  Stafford, TX 77477
  Phone: 281-313-7437 or 877-313-7437
  Email: phes@windstream.net
  Website: phesonline.com

NOTE: You must receive prior approval from the Alaska Board of Nursing if you intend to take a refresher course from an institution other than the ones referenced above.