Renew My License or Certificate

​If your Oregon nursing license or nursing assistant certificate has been expired for 61 days or more, you may apply to reactivate (please see applications for specific requirements) your license or certificate:

• You are a RN or LPN who can meet the practice requirement of 960 hours of nursing practice within the last five years.  
  
• You are a nurse practitioner who:
• meets the practice requirement of 960 practice hours in the NP specialty you hold and has active national certification in that same NP specialty, or
• was licensed prior to January 1, 2011, and you have completed 45 hours of continuing education (CE) with 15 hours being in pharmacological content.
• You are a CRNA who has active unencumbered national certification.
• You are a CNS who meets the practice requirement of 960 practice hours, and has completed 45 hours of continuing education (15 hours of which is pharmacological content), or has active CNS national certification.
  
• CNAs:
  
• You are a CNA who either completed a training program within the last two years, or you can meet the work requirement of having at least 400 paid work hours (doing CNA authorized duties under the supervision or monitoring of a RN) in the past two years, and your certificate must have been expired, retired, or inactive prior to 12/31/2019.  Applicants whose certificate was active at any time after 1/1/2020 are not eligible.  
  
• ​You are a CNA who can meet the work requirement of having at least 400 paid work hours (doing CNA authorized duties under the supervision or monitoring of a RN) in the past two years, but your certification expired on or after 1/1/2020​, or who is a student nurse, a nurse who has graduated within the last year, or licensed LPN/RN that is wanting to reactivate your expired CNA certification, see the application for details.
  
• You are a CMA who meets the work requirement of having at least 400 paid work hours doing CMA authorized duties under the supervision or monitoring of a RN in the past two years, and has completed eight hours of CE in pain management before your certification expired.  If you did not have 400 CMA work hours or did not complete the CE hours before your certification expired, you must retake and pass the CMA examination to reactivate

What happens next:  After you submit your application and payment, you will receive an email from the OSBN with instructions on how to complete the fingerprinting process for your national criminal background check.  More information about Oregon’s digital fingerprint system: Frequently Asked Questions about fingerprinting.

Reactivation Fees and Refund Policy

• You may pay by credit card only.  Fees submitted as part of the application process are not refundable, per ORS 678.410(2).  Be certain that you intend to complete the process before submitting your payment.  If you have any questions regarding your eligibility, or there is an error in your payment, please call our Customer Service Center at 971-673-0685 or e-mail oregon.bn.info@osbn.oregon.gov.