West Virginia nursing CE requirements
For registered nurse license renewal, read off WV RN Board Continuing Education and Renewals rather than an aggregator. Checked 2026-10-15.
12 hours
per renewal, every 2 years
Required, and the board does not say whether it counts
Safe Prescribing and Drug Diversion
3 hours · one-time
newly licensed RNs, within one year of initial license
Waivable by signed statement if the nurse did not prescribe, administer or dispense controlled substances in that year.
Do BLS and ACLS cards count?
The board does not say
One contact hour is
50 minutes
- The board requires 3 hours of Safe Prescribing and Drug Diversion but does not say whether it counts inside the total above. Assume it does not until you have confirmed it, so you are not short.
Biennial, renewing 1 May to 30 June of even-numbered years; the license lapses immediately after 30 June. The board CE page does not state the cycle for RNs, so the biennial even-year cycle comes from the renewals page.
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 West Virginia 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.