Arkansas nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off ASBN CE FAQs (10/2025) rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
15 hours
per renewal, every 2 years
Ways to satisfy Arkansas
National certification or recertification
One nursing college semester hour (grade C or better)
15 CE hours
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
Up to a limit
AHA courses (ACLS, PALS, NRP, PEARS) count up to 10 hours each; STABLE 9.3; TNCC and ENPC count. CPR/BLS does not count.
One contact hour is
50 minutes
Hours you can carry forward
0
Keep your certificates for
4 years
No carryover. 90 days to cure an audit shortfall before a late fee and letter of reprimand.
Read from that page on 2026-10-15. Boards change their rules and their websites without announcing either, so treat this as a convenience and the board as the authority.
Get warned before your Arkansas licence renews
Tell us the date on your licence and we will email you 60 days before it lapses. Once, per cycle. No account, no password, nothing else sent to you.
Hold a licence in more than one state?
The compliance map takes the CE you have already done and shows you where it would hold up across all 51 jurisdictions at once, including the ones that do not work the way anybody assumes. Three questions, no account. Both tools are available in English, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese.