Vermont nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off Vermont Board of Nursing Administrative Rules, Rules 4-3 and 4-8(a) rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
20 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 Vermont
400 practice hours in the preceding 2 years, or 960 in the preceding 5 years
400 practice hours20 hours of qualifying continuing education in the preceding 2 years
20 CE hoursA current nationally recognized certification
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.
CE is NOT mandatory; it is one of three alternatives. Licenses are valid for fixed two year periods. Qualifying CE must be approved and assigned a credit value by an ANCC-approved accreditor or the board. All three aggregators were wrong here, in three different ways.
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 Vermont 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.