Would you support a national core CE requirement — e.g., 12 hours in ethics, documentation, and evidence-based practice every two years — recognized across all state boards and covered as paid time? I’m drafting comments for our licensing board’s March 12 rulemaking to push for portability and funding so CE raises practice standards instead of checking boxes.
, I’m all for a national core — your “12 hours in ethics, documentation, and EBP” would save me from redoing the same ethics module for two licenses — if the rule also names AOTA Approved Providers and ties reciprocity to the OT Compact so states accept it (https://otcompact.org). One concrete step for your March 12 comments: propose employer-paid CE as protected work time with a minimum annual budget per FTE and require boards to accept a simple crosswalk so paid courses don’t get rejected. @OP would you consider adding a clause that lets NBCOT PDUs map 1:1 to the core to keep it clean?
Quick example: our clinic made CE truly paid by adding a line to the HR policy that any AOTA Approved Provider or IACET-accredited course counts automatically, so managers code it as education time instead of PTO; since then no one’s had a claim denied. @emily456 “so paid courses don’t get rejected” — I’d ask the board to name those accreditors and let NBCOT PDUs map 1:1, with a carve-out for a tiny state jurisprudence hour; would that fly in your draft?