Nursing CE by state · Tennessee
Tennessee nursing CE: what the board asks for
Tennessee nurses complete two items from the Board's competence list at renewal. One item is 10 contact hours of continuing education applicable to nursing practice; the rule does not restrict who approves it.
Who may approve your CE
What Tennessee’s rule says
“Successful completion of (10) contact hours per renewal period of continuing education/in-service education applicable to nursing practice.”
Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1000-01-.18(2)(a)9 (eff. 10/8/2024) · Read the rule at the source
The requirement
RNs: No fixed hours
LPNs: No fixed hours
Cycle: Every 2 years
Read this before you count our hours
What to know in Tennessee
- CE is one item of the two you need, so 10 hours covers at most half of the requirement.
Before you buy anything
What we will not tell you
We will not tell you that a course satisfies your Tennessee 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
Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1000-01-.18(2)(a)9 (eff. 10/8/2024)
Tennessee 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.