Utah nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off Utah DOPL RN or LPN renewal rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
30 hours
if you satisfy this board with coursework, every 2 years
This board accepts alternatives to sitting continuing education hours. Any one of the pathways below satisfies the requirement.
Ways to satisfy Utah
400 hours of licensed practice
400 practice hours200 hours of licensed practice plus 15 hours of approved CE
15 CE hours200 practice hours30 hours of approved CE
30 CE hours
More than one pathway here carries an hour figure and they are not interchangeable. A smaller number usually buys you less: it may be hours you deliver rather than attend, or hours that only count alongside something else.
Required, with no hour figure set
Suicide Prevention
no hour figure set · every renewal
At least one online suicide prevention training from a board list of four, ranging 0.5 to 1 credit each.
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
The board does not say
One contact hour is
50 minutes
- You can satisfy this board more than one way, so the right number of hours for you depends on which pathway you take.
Licenses expire 31 January of odd years. The suicide prevention training is required in addition to whichever of the three options is used.
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 Utah 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.