Beware The Evil CEU Requirement

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Thanks for the hard won words of wisdom. I have always been a bit haphazard in my recordkeeping but Your story reminds me of how important those ceu's are.... :)

Specializes in telemetry, cardiac stepdown.
Originally posted by Brownms46:

I'm not trying to insult you in anyway shape or form :D! I just read your nurse practice act, and there seems to be a few loop holes in getting renewing your license there. Also you say you haven't worked in 14 months, but the practice act refers to the previous calender year...2000. Did you work full time then? The CEU requirements are only 5..with fulltime employment, and 10 with just 160hrs of work. Is it possible for you to call the hospital you were working at, and obtain CEUs for the inservices, you did there? I would also write them, and find out if you could use the fact, that your husband was military, as the extenuating circumtances: . The individual presents evidence of an emergency or extenuating circumstances. At the time of filing an application for relicensure based on an exception, the licensee shall attach documentation of the exception.

"The licensee served on active duty in the armed forces for a minimum of six months during the licensure period."

Like another poster stated, that there are many free ceus online, and your boards states:

"There is no limit on the number of contact hours that may be earned through independent study".

You can follow this link to a site of free ceus online...http://www.nurseceu.com/free.htm

I hope some of this helps, and provides you with something you may not have discover already for yourself. Good luck!

Brownie :D

Wow! I want to thank you for your interest; I barely made it through a reading of Louisiana's nurse practice act, and I NEED the information. Anyway, I am going to try and get them to make an exception for me. I think they are acting as though I stayed in the state and simply did not bother keeping up my license. It irritates me that I can't get a license by endorsement. I don't think the armed forces clause will help because it's my husband who is active duty. I worked full time for only the first 3 months of 2000; then burned out and quit abruptly. So I can't imagine THAT facility would be too disposed towards assisting me in any way :p

The whole situation is going to have to go on the back burner for a bit anyway, as my packers arrive in 12 days and I am going bonkers trying to deal with the moving circus. I bookmarked the website you mentioned for future use...I didn't know there was such a thing as free CEUs :)

You'd think a state which has such low salaries and 300 nurses off scabbing in Minneapolis would want to make relicensure a bit easier, tho, no? :confused:

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Specializes in telemetry, cardiac stepdown.
Originally posted by Brownms46:

I'm not trying to insult you in anyway shape or form :D! I just read your nurse practice act, and there seems to be a few loop holes in getting renewing your license there. Also you say you haven't worked in 14 months, but the practice act refers to the previous calender year...2000. Did you work full time then? The CEU requirements are only 5..with fulltime employment, and 10 with just 160hrs of work. Is it possible for you to call the hospital you were working at, and obtain CEUs for the inservices, you did there? I would also write them, and find out if you could use the fact, that your husband was military, as the extenuating circumtances: . The individual presents evidence of an emergency or extenuating circumstances. At the time of filing an application for relicensure based on an exception, the licensee shall attach documentation of the exception.

"The licensee served on active duty in the armed forces for a minimum of six months during the licensure period."

Like another poster stated, that there are many free ceus online, and your boards states:

"There is no limit on the number of contact hours that may be earned through independent study".

You can follow this link to a site of free ceus online...http://www.nurseceu.com/free.htm

I hope some of this helps, and provides you with something you may not have discover already for yourself. Good luck!

Brownie :D

Wow! I want to thank you for your interest; I barely made it through a reading of Louisiana's nurse practice act, and I NEED the information. Anyway, I am going to try and get them to make an exception for me. I think they are acting as though I stayed in the state and simply did not bother keeping up my license. It irritates me that I can't get a license by endorsement. I don't think the armed forces clause will help because it's my husband who is active duty. I worked full time for only the first 3 months of 2000; then burned out and quit abruptly. So I can't imagine THAT facility would be too disposed towards assisting me in any way :p

The whole situation is going to have to go on the back burner for a bit anyway, as my packers arrive in 12 days and I am going bonkers trying to deal with the moving circus. I bookmarked the website you mentioned for future use...I didn't know there was such a thing as free CEUs :)

You'd think a state which has such low salaries and 300 nurses off scabbing in Minneapolis would want to make relicensure a bit easier, tho, no? :confused:

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Specializes in telemetry, cardiac stepdown.
Originally posted by Brownms46:

Like another poster stated, that there are many free ceus online, and your boards states:

"There is no limit on the number of contact hours that may be earned through independent study".

You can follow this link to a site of free ceus online...http://www.nurseceu.com/free.htm

I hope some of this helps, and provides you with something you may not have discover already for yourself. Good luck!

Brownie :D

Brownie, thank you SO MUCH for that website link! :D I already checked it out, and it is going to be an amazing help in my quest for relicensure. I may even get it done BEFORE my move (I'd rather read than pack and clean any day of the week) ;) I am one of those old-fashioned learners who needs to read from paper and get my hands on it, so I can see I am gonna burn through a lot of printer ink! But I love to study, and perhaps this project will reignite my love for nursing that actually working as a nurse burned out of me :cool:

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Specializes in telemetry, cardiac stepdown.
Originally posted by Brownms46:

Like another poster stated, that there are many free ceus online, and your boards states:

"There is no limit on the number of contact hours that may be earned through independent study".

You can follow this link to a site of free ceus online...http://www.nurseceu.com/free.htm

I hope some of this helps, and provides you with something you may not have discover already for yourself. Good luck!

Brownie :D

Brownie, thank you SO MUCH for that website link! :D I already checked it out, and it is going to be an amazing help in my quest for relicensure. I may even get it done BEFORE my move (I'd rather read than pack and clean any day of the week) ;) I am one of those old-fashioned learners who needs to read from paper and get my hands on it, so I can see I am gonna burn through a lot of printer ink! But I love to study, and perhaps this project will reignite my love for nursing that actually working as a nurse burned out of me :cool:

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.
Originally posted by NursePooh:

Brownie, thank you SO MUCH for that website link! :D I already checked it out, and it is going to be an amazing help in my quest for relicensure. I may even get it done BEFORE my move (I'd rather read than pack and clean any day of the week) ;) I am one of those old-fashioned learners who needs to read from paper and get my hands on it, so I can see I am gonna burn through a lot of printer ink! But I love to study, and perhaps this project will reignite my love for nursing that actually working as a nurse burned out of me :cool:

NursePooh I'm sooooo happy to read your post! You're very welcome, and glad to hear you're excited about nursing again! I'm so glad I could help :D. Take care, have a safe trip, and let us know when you get your license renew :cool:

P_RN..you're very welcome! :D Here is another site that maybe useful also. http://www.medi-smart.com/freeceu.htm. This site not only has FREE CEUs, but has links to other sites with Free CEUs also! :cool:.

Enjoy!

Brownie :D

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.
Originally posted by NursePooh:

Brownie, thank you SO MUCH for that website link! :D I already checked it out, and it is going to be an amazing help in my quest for relicensure. I may even get it done BEFORE my move (I'd rather read than pack and clean any day of the week) ;) I am one of those old-fashioned learners who needs to read from paper and get my hands on it, so I can see I am gonna burn through a lot of printer ink! But I love to study, and perhaps this project will reignite my love for nursing that actually working as a nurse burned out of me :cool:

NursePooh I'm sooooo happy to read your post! You're very welcome, and glad to hear you're excited about nursing again! I'm so glad I could help :D. Take care, have a safe trip, and let us know when you get your license renew :cool:

P_RN..you're very welcome! :D Here is another site that maybe useful also. http://www.medi-smart.com/freeceu.htm. This site not only has FREE CEUs, but has links to other sites with Free CEUs also! :cool:.

Enjoy!

Brownie :D

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.
Originally posted by NursePooh:

Brwonie, I am getting an error message stating that URL is not found on this server. It happened both using IE and Netscape :confused: Anybody else have any luck?

I had the same problem...but when I pulled it up through search..I got the site! Let's try this again. If the link doesn't work...do a search for free CEUs, and "Free nursing Ceus online", and click on it. Heres the link again: http://www.medi-smart.com/freeceu.htm

Brownie :D

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.
Originally posted by NursePooh:

Brwonie, I am getting an error message stating that URL is not found on this server. It happened both using IE and Netscape :confused: Anybody else have any luck?

I had the same problem...but when I pulled it up through search..I got the site! Let's try this again. If the link doesn't work...do a search for free CEUs, and "Free nursing Ceus online", and click on it. Heres the link again: http://www.medi-smart.com/freeceu.htm

Brownie :D

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.
Originally posted by Brownms46:

I had the same problem...but when I pulled it up through search..I got the site! Let's try this again. If the link doesn't work...do a search for free CEUs, and "Free nursing Ceus online", and click on it. Heres the link again: http://www.medi-smart.com/freeceu.htm

I tried it, and it works!!

Brownie :D

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Specializes in Everything except surgery.
Originally posted by Brownms46:

I had the same problem...but when I pulled it up through search..I got the site! Let's try this again. If the link doesn't work...do a search for free CEUs, and "Free nursing Ceus online", and click on it. Heres the link again: http://www.medi-smart.com/freeceu.htm

I tried it, and it works!!

Brownie :D

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Specializes in telemetry, cardiac stepdown.
Originally posted by Brownms46:

Here is another site that maybe useful also. http://www.medi-smart.com/freeceu.htm. This site not only has FREE CEUs, but has links to other sites with Free CEUs also! :cool:.

Enjoy!

Brownie :D

Brwonie, I am getting an error message stating that URL is not found on this server. It happened both using IE and Netscape :confused: Anybody else have any luck?

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Specializes in telemetry, cardiac stepdown.
Originally posted by Brownms46:

Here is another site that maybe useful also. http://www.medi-smart.com/freeceu.htm. This site not only has FREE CEUs, but has links to other sites with Free CEUs also! :cool:.

Enjoy!

Brownie :D

Brwonie, I am getting an error message stating that URL is not found on this server. It happened both using IE and Netscape :confused: Anybody else have any luck?

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