Rhode Island nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off Rhode Island DOH Nurses licensing rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
10 hours
per renewal, every 2 years
Mandatory topics, inside the Rhode Island total
Substance Abuse
2 hours · every renewal
Required, but not every cycle
Alzheimers and Dementia
1 hours · once per career
Once per career, not once per renewal.
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
The board does not say
One contact hour is
50 minutes
Keep your certificates for
4 years
Courses must be board approved, such as ANCC. A six month hardship extension is available. The 8 hour opioid training is a federal DEA requirement for registered prescribers, not a state nursing CE mandate.
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 Rhode Island 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.