Hawaii OT CEU Requirements & Discounts!

If you obtained your occupational therapy license in the state of Hawaii, you will need to maintain your NBCOT certification 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 required PDUs).

Click here to jump straight to the Hawaii 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 Hawaii occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant license here.

Step 2: Confirm the Hawaii 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 Hawaii:

License renewal due every even numbered year by December 31.

How many hours are required?

There are no specific CE requirements for OT license renewal in Hawaii. However, HI OT professionals are required to maintain NBCOT certification, which requires 36 units of education every 3 year renewal cycle.

The NBCOT Certification renewal period runs from January and March annually.

Verify here: OT Association of Hawaii Licensure Information

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

Here are the specific continuing education requirements for NBCOT certification in Hawaii:

These were copied from the 2025 NBCOT OTR & COTA Certification Renewal Handbook.

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

Ok, now that you know your requirements, it is time to start earning those PDUs! 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! OT Potential CEU courses and monthly live webinars can help you easily earn required NBCOT PDUs. You can use the NBCOT Renewal Log to keep track of your PDUs on their website. Our podcast-based courses fall under Professional Development Activities > Workshops/Courses/Independent Learning.

ID#	Activity	PDU Value	Max units per 3-year period	Verification Documentation
19	Successfully complete education (e.g., workshops, seminars, lectures, online courses, or conference) with an assessment component at the end of the program (e.g., scored test, project, paper). The same workshop may be claimed only once for PDU per renewal cycle.	1 hour = 1.25 units	No limit	A certificate of attendance or a letter from the provider verifying contact hours or CEU, date(s), event title, attendee name, agenda, and indicates successful completion of assessment component at the end of the program (e.g., scored test, project, paper).

Activities under activity 19 count as 1.25 units, so you would need to complete 29 courses over the 3 year cycle.

Here’s a screenshot of logging an OT Potential Podcast course in the NBCOT Renewal Log, upon earning a certificate of completion:

Where can Hawaii OT professionals get the best deals on PDUs?

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 “Hawaii” to receive a 15% discount—and we’ll donate 15% of your order to OT Association of Hawaii (OTAH).

👍 Price of OT Potential with your Hawaii discount = $84.15 (Reg $99)
🎉 Donation amount to OTAH = $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 OTAH.

This is one of the cheapest ways to earn all of your required Hawaii 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 Hawaii OT license renewal, just ask me the comments!