Montana Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist license renewal and CE requirements

Summary

Montana does not require continuing education for CRNA license renewal, which happens every two years. A Montana nurse anesthetist holds a registered nurse license plus an advanced practice registered nurse license with the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist certification type. The board's APRN page states that renewal occurs every other year: an odd licensee renews by December 31 of odd numbered years and an even licensee renews by December 31 of even numbered years. Renewal applications postmarked or submitted online after that date are subject to additional fees. The APRN renewal fee is charged per certification type, and adding a second certification to an existing Montana APRN license carries its own fee.

Montana Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist renewal and continuing education rules

"Not stated" means the board's pages and rules we read do not address it. We do not fill in typical values.

Montana requires no continuing education hours for a nursing license renewal, at either the registered nurse layer or the advanced practice layer. The board's continuing education page states in its own words that while the Montana Board of Nursing no longer requires continuing education contact hours to be completed as a requirement for renewal of a nursing license, the board will continue to provide free contact hours through its online education modules. Those modules, on topics such as the role of the board, delegation, the complaint process, the Nurse Licensure Compact, the licensing process, substance use disorder, scope of practice and ethics, are voluntary. Because Montana sets no hour count of its own, the practical continuing education driver for a Montana nurse anesthetist is the NBCRNA Continued Professional Certification program, which runs on its own four year clock. Montana does not adopt that four year national figure as a state requirement, so no national total is recorded here.

Required CE topics for Montana certified registered nurse anesthetists

The Montana Board of Nursing (Department of Labor and Industry, Business Standards Division) pages and rules we read do not mandate specific subject areas for this license type. Hours may be in any approved subject.

Documentation and audit

Common questions

How many CE hours does a Montana CRNA need to renew?

Montana does not require continuing education for CRNA license renewal, which happens every two years. Montana requires no continuing education hours for a nursing license renewal, at either the registered nurse layer or the advanced practice layer. The board's continuing education page states in its own words that while the Montana Board of Nursing no longer requires continuing education contact hours to be completed as a requirement for renewal of a nursing license, the board will continue to provide free contact hours through its online education modules. Those modules, on topics such as the role of the board, delegation, the complaint process, the Nurse Licensure Compact, the licensing process, substance use disorder, scope of practice and ethics, are voluntary. Because Montana sets no hour count of its own, the practical continuing education driver for a Montana nurse anesthetist is the NBCRNA Continued Professional Certification program, which runs on its own four year clock. Montana does not adopt that four year national figure as a state requirement, so no national total is recorded here.

How often does a Montana CRNA license need to be renewed?

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist licenses in Montana renew every two years. A Montana nurse anesthetist holds a registered nurse license plus an advanced practice registered nurse license with the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist certification type. The board's APRN page states that renewal occurs every other year: an odd licensee renews by December 31 of odd numbered years and an even licensee renews by December 31 of even numbered years. Renewal applications postmarked or submitted online after that date are subject to additional fees. The APRN renewal fee is charged per certification type, and adding a second certification to an existing Montana APRN license carries its own fee.

Sources

Last verified September 8, 2026. Every value above was read from one of these.

• Continuing Education, Montana Board of NursingState board page, accessed September 8, 2026
• APRN, Montana Board of NursingState board page, accessed September 8, 2026
• Montana Board of NursingState board page, accessed September 8, 2026

Montana names the four advanced practice roles explicitly on the board's APRN page: Certified Nurse Practitioner, Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and Clinical Nurse Specialist. The nurse anesthetist therefore holds a Montana APRN license with a CRNA certification type, not a separate credential class, and the renewal schedule and fee structure on that page apply to the nurse anesthetist. This is a shared advanced practice arrangement rather than a CRNA specific one: the board publishes no rule or page that singles nurse anesthetists out. The board's continuing education statement is written for nursing licenses generally rather than for a single license class, and the APRN page carries no separate hour count, directing continuing education questions to the board's audit contact. The board repealed its continuing education rules through MAR notice 24-159-93; that notice is published only as a PDF, which was not read, so the repeal is recorded from the board's own continuing education page rather than from the rule notice. The current text of the Administrative Rules of Montana could not be read directly: rules.mt.gov serves a JavaScript application that returns no content to an automated client, and the Justia mirror of ARM chapter 24.159 returned a 403. Whether the board requires evidence of current NBCRNA certification at each renewal could not be confirmed from a page that was read; the APRN page links to a list of APRN national certifying bodies and to an application checklist, but states the certification requirement only for initial licensure.