District of Columbia nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off DC Health RN/APRN Renewal FAQ rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
24 hours
per renewal, every 2 years
Mandatory topics, inside the District of Columbia total
Lgbtq Cultural Competency
2 hours · every renewal
Public Health Priority
3 hours · every renewal
The specific priority topics are published separately by DC Health.
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
The board does not say
One contact hour is
50 minutes
The 2 year cycle is implied by the renewal schedule rather than stated outright on the FAQ.
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 District of Columbia 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.