Keeping up with your licensure

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Hey everyone I am new to this traveling thing. I am not from a compact state so I'm a little nervous ab the renew process and what I should do for the licenses I have. I currently hold LA, WA, NC, CO, and PN. I am confused on what continuing education I need to do! I am afraid to get any other license until I figure this out! Please help :-)

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I'm not a traveler but I hold several licenses. Each State Board has a website outlining CEUs and mandatory education as well as renewal. Of course, none of your licenses will renew at the same time.

Keep a folder with each state's requirements, all of your CEUs, and due dates for application. Many general courses will qualify for all of the states, but you will need to verify that they do.

There are several mail order/online places that offer many reasonable CEUs and list which BON accepts their credits. For more information, PM me.

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Thank you for responding! So, I can't pm apparently bc I don't have enough credits or something but I have looked on many of the boards and it seems never ending and unhelpful. I will try researching again. Majority of these renew in 2 yrs so I have time. I remember being told of placing license on hold have you heard of this? I ask bc I know each star requires u to work for a certain amt of hrs usually. I will not

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You can go inactive but check what it would cost and the hoops you have to jump through--and the time it would take IF you are a traveler and need the license soon. I'm sending you a PM. I think you can get one but just not send one.

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First things first! Why keep your licences current? That gets expensive and as you have discovered, hard to keep up with. It is also not necessary as you can renew in most states instantly with a late fee. One late fee a year is less than keeping up all of those licences!

Do you have a specialty certification? Mine requires 30 CEUs a year. No licence requires more. So another reason to not worry.

Do you still want your question answered? I agree that BON sites are pretty bad. Fortunately, PanTravelers has a board resource that will take just a minute to look up renewal CEUS requirements for each state. Renewal cost and late fees too so you can make informed choices.

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And I've just been using Pan Travelers for the calculator! Thanks Ned, that's handy info.

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I have LA. It's yearly renewal, around 80 dollars. CEU's are based on hours worked. So if you work 0-160 hours during the year, it's 15 CEU's. Now, you don't submit your CEU's to them, but keep your records. They do a random audit every year. It's rather strange, from what I'm used to anyway.

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