Iowa OT CEU Requirements & Discounts!

If you obtained your occupational therapy license in the state of Iowa, you will need to earn continuing education units at required intervals in order to maintain your license. To help, I’m going to walk you through the steps I take to maintain my own occupational therapy license (and easily earn CEUs).

Click here to jump straight to the Iowa OT CEU discounts!

Step 1: Look up your OT/OTA license.

To begin the process, I always double-check that my license is displaying correctly. You can look up your Iowa occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant license here.

Step 2: Confirm the Iowa OT continuing education requirements. 

It’s always good to double check for any updates to your 2025 licensing cycle. (One year, I completed ALL of my state of Nebraska requirements only to find out that they were waived due to COVID. 😭)

But, to get you going here is the information I found, with links to where I found it.

Here are the basic OT/OTA CEU requirements in Iowa:

Due at time of license renewal, every two years on the 15th of the licensee’s birth month.

How many hours are required?

• OTs need 30 hours of continuing education every two years
• OTAs need 15 hours of continuing education every two years

Requirements:

• Education hours should contribute directly to your professional competency
• CEU topics must “integrally relate to the practice of the profession”
• Courses must be taught by qualified instructors
• A certificate of completion from the course sponsor is required

Note: OT professionals in Iowa cannot carryover continuing education hours from one licensing cycle to the next, so you’ll need to earn all of your hours within the 2 years before your renewal date.

Verify here: Iowa Department of Inspection, Appeals & Licensing OT Board

Discounts
Get a 15% discount on OT Potential by using the promo code: Iowa
(We’ll also give 15% of that sale to the Iowa OT Association.)

Here are the specific occupational therapy continuing education requirements for coursework in Iowa:

These were copied from the Iowa Administrative Code, updated 02/05/25

Step 3: Earn your CEU hours (discounts below)!

Ok, now that you know your requirements, it is time to start earning those CEUs! There are of course a lot of options out there, but we hope you consider checking out the courses offered by OT Potential.

Do OT Potential courses count toward the continuing education required to renew my license?

Yes! You can easily earn all of your Iowa OT continuing education hours through OT Potential!

Our CEU courses and monthly live webinars are AOTA approved and part of the Iowa OT Association’s OT Potential Association Affiliate Program!

Where can Iowa OT professionals get the best deals on CEUs?

At OT Potential, our courses are all built around helping you get new evidence into practice.

But, what good is evidence-based practice, if you are not reimbursed appropriately for it? Our local associations do SUCH important advocacy work, when it comes to reimbursement and scope of practice. That’s why we’ve made it part of our mission to support these associations.

So, we have this win-win proposition for you. Join OT Potential using the promo code “Iowa” to receive a 15% discount—and we’ll donate 15% of your order to IOTA.

👍 Price of OT Potential with your Iowa discount = $84.15 (Reg $99)
🎉 Donation amount to IOTA = $12.62

And, the best part is if you decide to renew, it will be at your discounted price. AND, we’ll make another donation to IOTA.

This is one of the cheapest ways to earn all of your required Iowa OT CEUs, and you can feel good doing it because you are giving back to your state association ❤️.

(If OT Potential is not right for you, I am also a long-time fan of MedBridge, and through OT Potential, you can snag a MedBridge Promo Code for 40% off.)

Step 4: Renew your license. 🎉

Ok, now it’s time for the big moment.

You can renew your license online.

Conclusion

Hopefully, you found this post helpful!

As you can tell, I am a continuing education nerd 🤓, so if you have any other questions about continuing education and your Iowa OT license renewal, just ask me the comments!