Need help/clarification with CEU's

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Hi all, first time posting on here and really would appreciate any advice/help. I graduated in May 2010 with my BSN from Minnesota. Passed boards in June but couldn't find a RN job in the Twin Cities due to the nursing strike going on at that time. I really wanted to get my career started, so I began applying out of state. I landed a hospital job in Wisconsin in August 2010 and have been working there since.

Recently I've been noticing how much I miss home and my family, so I'm hoping/looking into getting a job back in Minnesota by the end of summer/early fall. I know to keep a MN RN license current, you need to complete 24 CEU hours. Wisconsin doesn't require any CEU's, so I haven't done any. But now that I'm looking into moving back home, I need to start working on CEU's for MN. I've contacted the MNBON and they said I'd still need to complete all 24 hours by August 2012 (when I'm due to renew my MN license), but they couldn't/wouldn't offer any advice or recommendations to me.

My question is, how do I go about tackling all these CEU hours from Wisconsin? Are there magazines I can subscribe to with articles and worksheets that count towards CEU hours? I can't attend any conferences or inservices in MN, a flight home from here costs anywhere from $100-200, and the drive is about 6 hours.

Any help/insight/suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thank you for taking the time to read and respond.

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I do lots of Continuing education but am real bad about keeping all the certificates, so every two years I have to sit down and get 30 hours.

Just bite the bullet. Put on a pot of coffee. Get out your credit card. Go to one of the Nursing Ed websites and start clicking on units that strike your fancy. By that afternoon or evening you can run off the certificates and send copies to the BON.

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Thanks for your reply! Which website(s) do you use? I want to make sure whatever ones I use are accredited and not some scam.

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Specializes in School Nurse.

Look at the various nursing specialty sites - for instance, the school nurse association has lots of CEUs that are free to members, so I would think others do to. Another place to look is at teaching hospitals - they sometimes have grand rounds that are taped and available online for nurses. Back in the day, you could get CEUs from the nursing mags like Nursing (whatever the year), but I don't even know if that mag is around anymore :)

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Nurse.com offers an unlimited CE package for around $40. Certificates are electronically generated and archived within your account when you successfully complete courses, in both email and PDF formats. The website allows you to enter any and all license information you have when you register, which is printed on the certificates.

I recently signed up and pleased with the offerings. The package is cost-effective (some CEs cost as much individually as the package itself) and the offerings are varied across practice areas, with many evidence-based modules. Good luck!

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P.S. Nurse.com's offerings are accredited by ANCC.

http://ce.nurse.com/Accreditation.aspx

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