Continuing Education?

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I am a new RN in PA...start my first job next week. We are required to have 30 hours of CE to renew our license. Have any of you guys used ce.nurse.com for getting this done? I can't seem to find many reviews on it. It's $44.95 for the "unlimited" membership. I figure the price is worth it if the site is legitimate and easy to use.

Thanks guys.

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Specializes in Trauma | Surgical ICU.

The place you are working for will provide those CE hours. The inservices conducted by your nurse educator will provide an hour or so every month of this training. Ask her/him for the copy and for most states, this will suffice. ACLS or PALS classes (the initial certification) can be submitted for CEs.

There are a lot of free, most of the health sites of government offers free CEs.

If you're a new RN, you have a year to do so and IMHO, you should only pay if you are running out of time to accomplish it and does not have any other free venues to explore.

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Glad you asked this, I saw that website yesterday and was wondering the same thing. My company doesn't offer CE so I'll need to search for it myself.

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Glad you asked this, I saw that website yesterday and was wondering the same thing. My company doesn't offer CE so I'll need to search for it myself.

I will be working at a small pediatric psych hospital so I wasn't too sure if they would offer it. I guess I will find out next week though.

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I do know that my states board of nursing websites offer some free courses online so you could check that out too.

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Specializes in Hospital Education Coordinator.

If you join a professional organization you will have access to free or discounted CE. Also, there are many vendors who offer CE. Baxter has some on kidney disease, Medline on various topics --- check out the websites of top names in medical equipment.

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Most professional nursing journals also offer CE. You can do it at your own convenience and mail it in. Some also offer it online with a paid subscription to the journal.

Also, I strongly recommend that you get connected with a professional organization, and at least your state nursing association. You get access to mentors, CE, and clinical updates, and the periodic conferences offer tons of good-quality CE.

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
The place you are working for will provide those CE hours. The inservices conducted by your nurse educator will provide an hour or so every month of this training. Ask her/him for the copy and for most states, this will suffice. ACLS or PALS classes (the initial certification) can be submitted for CEs.

I would be careful about this. Looking at many of the inservices from my employer, they are not granted CE status. Before counting on employer education to qualify as CE, the employee should ensure that is the case.

Also, from the PA FAQs about CE requirements:

What type of CE is acceptable?Acceptable CE must be relevant to patient care or professional nursing in a general or specialty area andenhance the knowledge and application of the physical, social, biological and behavioral sciences.(Registered Nurse Rules and Regulations 21.133). Advanced life support courses such as AdvancedCardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or Advanced Trauma LifeSupport (ATLS) may be used towards the 30 hours of CE, but may be used only ONCE during a 2 yearrenewal cycle.

What type of CE content is unacceptable?

Unacceptable CE course content is any non-professional course content related to the following: (Thislist is not all-inclusive.)


  • Self-improvement

  • Change in attitude

  • Financial gain

  • Courses designed for lay persons

  • BLS (Basic Life Support)

  • Mandatory annual education on facility specific policies unrelated to nursing practice

  • Employment orientation programs such as fire safety, FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act),
    etc.


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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

I have nurse.com CE membership, (signed up on a discount) as well as PSNA membership that has free CE's in their quarterly magazine.

I also joined a few sites that offer free CEUs like Medscape; I think the nurse.com has pretty good CE's; I also plan on joining a specialty org soon to get more free CEUs.

Try to join PSNA and start on your CEUs from there, including the other posters suggestions as well; it will be up to you to decide on Nurse.com-I enjoy it and the various CEUs that are discounted and free are pretty relevant for what I want to know clinically and professionally.

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