Nebraska nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off Nebraska DHHS Nurse Licensing Renewal and CE rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
20 hours
per renewal, every 2 years
Ways to satisfy Nebraska
Graduated within the past 2 to 5 years plus the 20 hours
Graduated within the past 2 years
Board-approved refresher course within 5 years
Current nursing specialty certification
A qualifying portfolio
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
Up to a limit
CPR or BLS counts for no more than 4 hours. ACLS, PALS, NRP and TNCC may be claimed at the hours printed on the card, or 4 hours if none are listed.
One contact hour is
50 minutes
The default path is 20 contact hours plus 500 practice hours in the past 5 years. At least 10 of the 20 must be formally peer reviewed. Licenses expire 31 October of even years. Semester hours count as 15 contact hours, quarter hours as 10.
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 Nebraska 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.