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CE or CEU?

Hello friends,

I'm about to renew my nursing license this year for the second time. That means I need to finish the 20 CE credits that are required. I live in the state of Illinois when I look it tells me that I need 20 CEs but every website I go to look at continues to talk about CEUs. I've also learned that 1 CEU is 10 contact hours. So now i'm very confused on if I just need to do contact hours so 20 hours of classes online or if I need to 200 hours for 20 of the CEU credits. License renewal says 20 CEs but now I don't want to end up not doing enough if I need 200 contact hours.

thank you for the help everyone,

- Jonathan

EDIT: I am an LPN for the record

and I have found a site called CEUfast that is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. They have about 300+ contact hours available would I have to do 20 of those or 200?

when i look it up online from IDFPR

http://nursing.illinois.gov/PDF/2017-07_IL_LPN_CE_Relicensure_FAQ.pdf

it states

Are there equivalencies for Continuing Education CE?a. 1 contact hour = 60 minutesb. 1 contact hour = 1 CEc. 1 academic semester hour = 15 contact hours/15 CEd. 1 academic quarter hour = 12.5 contact hours/12.5 CEe. 1 CME = 1 contact hour/1 CEf. 1 CNE = 1 contact hour/1 CEg. 1 AMA = 1 contact hour/CE

so that is just the 20 contact hours correct?

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Yes, you need 20 contact hours.

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