Illinois nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off IDFPR Illinois RN CE Relicensure FAQ rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
20 hours
per renewal, every 2 years
Mandatory topics, inside the Illinois total
Sexual Harassment Prevention
1 hours · every renewal
Implicit Bias
1 hours · every renewal
Alzheimers and Dementia
1 hours · every renewal
RNs with direct patient interaction with adults aged 26 and older
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
Up to a limit
Up to 5 hours from skills certifications: maximum 2 hours CPR and 3 hours BLS, ACLS or PALS.
One contact hour is
50 minutes
First Illinois renewal is exempt from the CE requirement. All mandated topics count toward the 20.
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 Illinois 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.