Section 0120-05-.07 - CREDITS(1) Professional Development Hours of credit for qualifying courses successfully completed which offer semester hour, quarter hour, or CEU credit are as specified above. All other professional continuing education activities will be credited one (1) PDH for each contact hour with the following exceptions:(a) Monitoring of university or college courses will be credited at one-third (1/3) the above-stated conversion table.(b) Teaching or instructing qualifying courses or seminars will be credited at twice the PDHs earned by a participating student and may be claimed for credit only once.(c) Authorship of papers, articles, or books cannot be claimed until actually published. A maximum of ten (10) PDHs per biennium may be claimed for each published peer-reviewed paper, article, or book. A maximum of five (5) PDHs per biennium may be claimed for each published paper, article, or book that is not peer-reviewed.(d) Correspondence course PDHs may be considered acceptable to the Board, but the registrant shall submit, upon request, supporting documentation to demonstrate high quality course content.(e) A maximum of eight (8) PDHs per biennium may be claimed for attendance at Board meetings and professional society legislative events, and active participation in technical/professional societies or organizations, or technical or professional public boards, as an officer or committee member.(f) A maximum of four (4) PDHs per biennium may be claimed for active participation in educational outreach activities involving K-12 or higher education students.(g) A maximum of ten (10) PDHs per biennium may be claimed for each patent.(h) A maximum of five (5) PDHs per biennium may be claimed for writing accepted licensing examination items.(2) PDHs may be acquired at any location. If the continuing education provider prescribes a customary time for completion of such an activity, then such prescribed time shall, unless the Board finds the prescribed time to be unreasonable, be accepted as the registrant's time for PDH purposes irrespective of actual time spent on the activity.Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0120-05-.07
Original rule filed April 25, 1997; effective July 9, 1997. Amendment filed September 11, 2009; effective December 10, 2009. Amendment filed March 9, 2011; effective June 7, 2011. Amendment filed December 11, 2012; effective March 11, 2013. Amendments filed October 28, 2016; effective January 26, 2017. Amendments filed October 29, 2020; effective 1/27/2021.Authority: T.C.A. § 62-2-203(d).