Every CE requirement verified against official state nursing board sources. How RenewRN verifies the data →
Every CE requirement verified against official state nursing board sources. How RenewRN verifies the data →
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RenewRN publishes nursing license and continuing-education rules that affect your livelihood, so every rule is verified against the official state Board of Nursing source, written from a nurse's first-hand experience, and corrected in the open. This page explains exactly how that works.
RenewRN is built by Keegan, a travel RN who has renewed licenses across multiple states, so the questions it answers come from someone who has actually been through the process. We're straight about the limits of that, though: being a nurse is hands-on clinical experience, not a law degree or a board seat. So the authority for the rules themselves doesn't rest on a credential, it rests on the official source that every fact is checked against.
Every CE requirement, renewal fee, and deadline on this site is verified against the official state Board of Nursing source for that jurisdiction, the administrative code, practice act, or the board's own published rule. Not third-party aggregators, not an old scrape. The primary .gov source URLs are cited on the relevant state and guide pages so you can check the rule yourself.
Automated checks, including a language model, help by flagging a fee or deadline that may have drifted from its board page, but a person verifies every flagged change against the official source before it publishes. Nothing automated is ever published to nurses on its own.
The full methodology, the source hierarchy we follow when records disagree, and a per-state log of exactly when each state was last cross-checked live on the verification log. If you publish or cite our data, see how to cite RenewRN.
Every data page shows a “Verified [date]” stamp so you can see how current the rule is at a glance. We re-verify on a recurring schedule and immediately whenever a board changes a rule or a reader reports a discrepancy. Substantive rule changes are recorded publicly in the rule-change log, the only nursing tracker we know of that publishes one.
State boards sometimes update a rule before it's widely announced, and we'd rather hear about it than miss it. If you spot anything that looks out of date or wrong, tell us. We re-verify the claim against the official board source, update the page and its verification date, and log substantive rule changes in the rule-change log. Every report gets read.