FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Texas is now using the language Contact Hours instead of CE or CEU, and many of the classes will count for Contact hours for your license. Some of the core didactic does not meet the BON rules. If you do the complete refresher program, including clinical, you will receive your Verification of Course Completion and 20 Contact Hours.

You can only do clinical after the didactic material is completed. We have over 15 clinical affiliation agreements throughout Texas. You may also perform clinical at a site near you if the facility allows and approved by the PHES Director of Education. We are also working on affiliations in our newer approved states, California and North Carolina.

We have locations in Southwest Houston and North Houston. Call PHES to find out where we will teach a particular course that month.

No, PHES is not a nursing school or a nurse’s aide school. Instead, PHES is a continuing education company specializing in healthcare courses.

Most nurses find that completing the program takes about two to four months (six months is the maximum time allowed without prior permission).

Please call for cost and be prepared to answer specific questions about your status. These answers help us determine your specific course and clinical needs, and we can then give you a cost. For example, there are different requirements for a nurse endorsing from another state, coming from another country, delinquent in Texas, in-active in Texas, or active but not practising in Texas. The cost does not include all course material, background checks, liability insurance, and clinical fees. In addition, this does not include the cost of scrubs, stethoscopes, TB skin tests or CXR, vaccines required by specific clinical sites, or CPR. A deposit of $100 is due on registration, and payment is due at the beginning of the program. Cash, check, money order or credit cards are accepted, and we do payment plans for those nurses that are not active. Please ask for more information regarding the payment plan if needed.

Each nurse refresher that desires to do clinical must have a current license/temporary permit to practice nursing in the state of Texas (if you are utilizing a temporary permit, do not send for it until you have been accepted in a program).

• Current BLS for Healthcare Provider CPR
• TB skin test or CXR
• Hepatitis B vaccine, titer showing immunity, or sign a declination waiver obtained from us
• There may be additional vaccine requirements, depending on the clinical setting criteria, like Influenza, Tdap, MMR, or Varicella. We will discuss this in phone/in-person intake interviews on the registration request.
• The school provides liability Insurance (included in tuition cost).
• Background Check (done by the school and included in tuition cost).
• Drug Screen (done by school and subject to random).
• The student provided clean, neat scrubs.
• Stethoscope provided by the student.
• Upon successful completion of the didactic learning, We will instruct the nurse to apply for his/her temporary permit for clinical.
• Passing score on all module quizzes
• The participant must show the ability to meet the nurse refresher behaviour expectations.
• Upon receipt of all the above. The nurse may request the sites and areas of practice of their choice. The Director of Education will schedule all clinicians with the clinical site, receive confirmation, and then confirm with each nurse where they are to report. Any specific orientation requirements and the clinical schedule, and be precepted by an experienced staff nurse at the facility. The clinical goal is to allow the nurse to gain hands-on experience and become confident and competent. The facility RN will supervise the participant, provide direction, and assist with learning skills for the nurse to successfully transition back into nursing practice.