Mississippi nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off MS BON Part 2815 Rules 1.3 to 1.7 rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
20 hours
per renewal, every 2 years
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
The board does not say
One contact hour is
50 minutes
Hours you can carry forward
10
Keep your certificates for
4 years
Cycle is 1 January of an odd year to 31 December of an even year. New graduates licensed by examination are exempt for their initial period. Up to 10 carryover hours. 10 business days to produce records on audit.
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 Mississippi 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.