Iowa nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off Iowa DIAL Nursing License Renewals rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
36 hours
per renewal, every 3 years
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
No
CPR and basic life support do not count toward the requirement.
One contact hour is
50 minutes
Keep your certificates for
4 years
A genuine three year cycle. The first renewal period is two years plus the months until the licensee birth month, then every three years.
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 Iowa 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.