Nursing CE by state · Kentucky
Kentucky nursing CE: what the board asks for
Kentucky nurses complete 14 contact hours each annual earning period, and Kentucky's rule says courses from providers approved by state boards of nursing shall be accepted.
Who may approve your CE
What Kentucky’s rule says
“A continuing education activity that is given by a continuing education provider that has received approval by one (1) of the following organizations shall be accepted by the board: … 12. State Boards of Nursing.”
201 KAR 20:220 §2(5)(a)12; 201 KAR 20:215 §3(1)(a), §5(5); KBN RN Continuing Education page · Read the rule at the source
The requirement
RNs: 14 contact hours
LPNs: 14 contact hours
Cycle: Every year (1 Nov – 31 Oct)
Read this before you count our hours
What to know in Kentucky
- A Kentucky contact hour is 50 minutes.
- Kentucky also has one-time topic requirements (pediatric abusive head trauma, domestic violence and elder abuse, dementia, suicide prevention). Our courses are not written for them.
Before you buy anything
What we will not tell you
We will not tell you that a course satisfies your Kentucky requirement. Your board decides that, and an audit lands on your license, not on us.
What we can do is show you the rule, quoted or cited, and linked, and tell you plainly where our courses stand. Each of our RN & LPN course pages states the continuing-education approval that course carries, and that statement applies only to the course it appears on.
If anything here is unclear for your situation, ask your board before you enroll. Keep every certificate and the course description; the description is what shows an auditor what the course covered.
Read the rule yourself
When we read it
We read the rule on 29 September 2026. Rules change; the board’s current text governs.
Ready to look at courses?
Read each course page against what your board asks for, then choose.