How to find Free, Board-Approved CEU Courses for Florida RN Renewal

Renewal for Florida registered nurse licenses expiring April 30, 2016 is approaching. I'm in that group.

First, here's a link to the Continuing Education (CE/CEU) requirements for renewal:

Florida Board of Nursing » Page not found - Licensing, Renewals & Information

If you need CEUs, and are looking for FREE online/self-study/home-study courses, this may help you. It is very important to use CE Broker because there are a lot of free courses available on the internet, but many of them are not board-approved. So you must find your free courses through CE Broker in order to eliminate that problem.

A list of board-approved, free courses can be searched through CE Broker but it can be tricky to navigate. I put together a little set of Help Instructions for my future self as to how to search the thing and find free courses. Here it is - thought it might help someone else.

How to search CE Broker for Free Courses

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1. Start by going to the CE Broker website ( https://www.cebroker.com/ ) and log in.

2. On top banner menu, click on "Course Search" and select "Search for Courses".

3. The first screen is a search criteria for "Course Type". To find online and home study courses*, select "Self Study Continuing Education Courses" and click on "Begin Search".

4. The second screen is "Search Options" where you can further filter your search:

• If you need a specific subject area, select that from the drop-down menu in the left box. If you are looking for general courses, select "general" or leave the radio button on "All".
  
• Leave "Delivery Method" radio button on "All" so that the results will include both Computer-Based Training (ie: online courses) and Home Study courses*.
  
• Leave "Search by Course Name" and "Provider" blank.
  
• Click on "Begin Search".
  

5. The third screen is "Review Results". Here is where you can sort the results by price.

• Under "Sort By" (on left-hand side), where it says "Random", change to "US $ Price" and wait for list to resort.
  
• If you would like to see more than 20 results at a time, under "Display" (on right-hand side), where it says "20", change to "100" (or desired amount).
  

Now you can easily browse board-approved, FREE courses!

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* FYI, best as I can tell, here is the difference between "Computer-Based Training (ie: online courses)" and "Home Study" courses:

For Computer-Based Training (ie: online courses), the reading material and any videos are online on the provider's website. You must read and/or watch on their website. The material is not available for download (unless you do your own copy/paste).

For Home Study, the reading material is available for download in either (and sometimes both) a PDF file and a Word document. You download it, read and study it, and then go back to the provider's website to take the exam.