Ohio nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off Ohio Administrative Code 4723-14-03 rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
24 hours
per renewal, every 2 years
Mandatory topics, inside the Ohio total
Category A
1 hours · every renewal
At least 1 of the 24 must be category A continuing education.
Required, but not every cycle
Human Trafficking
no hour figure set · optional
The board states 1 per year of the cycle, so this renewal needs 0.
OPTIONAL, not mandated. One hour on recognizing and handling human trafficking or sexual assault victims may count toward the required hours.
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
The board does not say
One contact hour is
50 minutes
First renewal after licensure by examination has no requirement. A nurse licensed by endorsement for one year or less completes 12 hours. The rule does not define the reporting period length; the 2 year cycle comes from the renewal schedule.
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 Ohio 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.