Tennessee nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off TN BON Continuing Competence Requirements (05-2025) rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
Coursework alone will not satisfy this board
There is no pathway here you can complete purely by sitting courses, so no single hour figure applies. Read the pathways and the board's note before you book anything.
Ways to satisfy Tennessee
TWO items from a list of 14, not one
10 CE hoursThe list includes: employer evaluation; peer letter; contract renewal or reappointment; written self-evaluation; current national certification; two documented nursing goals; volunteer nursing service letter; educating nursing students; 10 contact hours of CE; a published nursing article you authored; a two-week board-approved refresher; a two-week comprehensive orientation; an official transcript showing 3 hours of nursing credit in the past 5 years; or retaking the NCLEX.
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
The board does not say
One contact hour is
50 minutes
Keep your certificates for
4 years
- You can satisfy this board more than one way, so the right number of hours for you depends on which pathway you take.
Two of fourteen, biennially. Ten contact hours is only ONE of the fourteen options, so this is not a 5 or 10 hour state as two aggregators reported. Evidence kept 4 years, 30 days to produce.
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 Tennessee 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.