CE Resources for Nurses
- ANA CE Online features personalized, ANCC accredited online certificates instantly upon completion FREE CE For ANA Members.
- CE Connection from Nursing Center. You can search CE collection, browse CEs by Specialty Certification, by clinical topics, and more published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Center for Clinical Excellence offers accredited online continuing education courses for nurses and respiratory care practitioners. These educational programs focus on cardiopulmonary physiology and disease, ventilator management strategies and relevant technology. The self-paced courses include convenient post-testing and a printable certificate upon course completion.
- e-leaRN from the New York State Nurses Association includes national approval and many other state's mandatory CE courses.
- Learnwell.org offers online continuing education for nurses, counselors, nurse administrators, etc. The emphasis is on short courses that promote ethics and population health promotion/disease prevention.
- Medscape CME is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education, the ANCC to provide continuing nursing education, and the ACPE to provide continuing pharmacy education. Free registration is required.
- National Center of Continuing Education provides CE courses for nurses and allied health care professionals.
- NurseCEU.com is a directory of online Continuing Education (CE) courses for RNs, LVNs, LPNs, Nurse Practitioners, critical care nurses, EMTs, paramedics, and other individuals working to provide health care. Always check the provider's website for accreditation, terms, and conditions of service.
- Nurses-Digest' Online is nursing CE online with more than 30 categories.
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Oncology Nursing Society list CE options in a varitey of formats: podcast, print, CD-ROMS, Web, teleconferences and more. Some of these resources are available with out cost. This is an excellent resource for oncology nurses.
- www.meniscus.com contains CE programs for nurses, pharmacists, and physicians. A wide variety of programs (online, electronic, and print) are available at no charge to participants, thanks to unrestricted educational grants from various sources.
There are other ways to get CEU without attending conferences
- LISTEN project participation: There are three options to earn CEU in Learning Information Seeking and Technology for Evidence-based Nursing Practice: face-to-face workshop, online scenario, and online tutorials (BOLTs).
- CINAHL: Search the database on topics of interest, use one of the Specific Interest categories, and then limit your search result to CEU.
- Journal Web sites: Many journal Web sites offer CE articles for free and charge is only for taking the test. Here is a list of journals that offer free CE articles.
- Licensed library resources often include CEU for nurses - check with your librarian or library website.
- Employers, especially hospitals, may offer onsite workshops with CEU credits
- Grans rounds often offer continuing education credit - CME for medical, and CEU for nursing grand rounds
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