Florida nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off Florida BON Registered Nurse Renewal rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
24 hours
per renewal, every 2 years
Ways to satisfy Florida
Specialty certification from an accredited program exempts the CE hours
Does NOT waive the human trafficking requirement.
Mandatory topics, inside the Florida total
Medical Errors
2 hours · every renewal
Florida Laws and Rules
2 hours · every renewal
Human Trafficking
2 hours · every renewal
Required even for nurses exempt from CE by specialty certification.
Required, but not every cycle
Workplace Impairment
2 hours · every other renewal
Domestic Violence
2 hours · every third biennium
In addition to the 24 hours, not part of them.
HIV Aids
1 hours · one-time
before the first renewal
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
The board does not say
One contact hour is
50 minutes
Of the 24, 16 are general hours. New licensees have a reduced first-renewal requirement.
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 Florida 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.