Nursing CE by state · North Dakota
North Dakota nursing CE: what the board asks for
North Dakota nurses complete 12 contact hours every two years from education the Board approves or recognizes; its recognized-provider list includes health care regulatory boards.
Who may approve your CE
What North Dakota’s rule says
“Continuing education for purposes of relicensure must be approved or recognized by the board and must meet or exceed twelve contact hours within the preceding two years.”
N.D. Admin. Code 54-02-05-08(1); NDBON 'Continuing Education for Renewal' (last modified 9/22/2025) · Read the rule at the source
The requirement
RNs: 12 contact hours
LPNs: 12 contact hours
Cycle: Every 2 years
Read this before you count our hours
What to know in North Dakota
- You also need 400 practice hours in four years.
- CPR or BLS, repeated identical content and orientation do not count.
Before you buy anything
What we will not tell you
We will not tell you that a course satisfies your North Dakota 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
N.D. Admin. Code 54-02-05-08(1)
North Dakota Board of Nursing
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.