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 →
Features
Each of the things below came from a renewal that went sideways for someone: a missed mandatory topic, a board audit with no documentation, a license that lapsed because the reminder never landed.
Core features free
Licenses, certs, registrations, and the CE hours behind them, each on its own clock.
A nurse’s credentials don’t stop at the license: DEA registration, BLS/ACLS/PALS cards, and board certifications all expire on their own clocks, usually tracked in a spreadsheet, if at all.
Track every credential you hold (state licenses, DEA registration, BLS/ACLS/PALS, CCRN and other board certs), each with its own cycle and days remaining. Built to be readable on a phone between shifts.
You shouldn’t need a spreadsheet (or ChatGPT) to know what expires next.
Tracking CE on a spreadsheet means lost entries and forgotten courses by renewal time.
Log each course once: provider, hours, category, date. RenewRN calculates your progress toward every requirement automatically.
You finish a CE course at 2 AM after a shift. Log it in 30 seconds and forget about it. RenewRN remembers.
A new state license doesn’t mean the same CE rules. One nurse was 4 hours short of a mandatory topic she didn’t know existed.
Every state’s CE hours, mandatory topics, approved providers, and renewal fees, all verified against official board sources.
Moving or adding a state? See exactly what’s required before you’re blindsided.
Five state licenses expiring at different times, tracked on a sticky note on the fridge. Sound familiar?
One dashboard that sorts everything (licenses, certs, registrations) by what expires next, with the CE hours required for each.
If you hold licenses in more than one state, you need this. One missed deadline kills your next contract.
Reminders that reach you where you already look.
Renewals slip when you’re traveling between states. One nurse had 9 days left before she even remembered.
Pro members get email alerts at 90, 60, 30, 7, and 1 day before expiration. Free accounts see a live countdown on the dashboard.
Between 12-hour shifts and life, you shouldn’t have to keep a mental countdown to your renewal date.
Boards change CE rules mid-cycle: a new mandatory topic, a fee bump, a deadline shift. Most nurses don't find out until renewal, too late to adjust.
When a board rule changes in a state you track, RenewRN emails you, verified against the official board source first, never a rumor.
You shouldn't learn a new mandatory topic exists the week your renewal is due.
Email reminders get buried under 200 unread messages. The nudge you actually need is the one on your phone.
Opt in and get renewal nudges as push notifications on your phone or desktop. Even free accounts get the 90-day push. Pro adds the full 90/60/30/7/1 ladder.
A push you actually see beats an email lost in your inbox.
After a few cycles, you can't remember when you last renewed or what you completed, and an endorsement application or employer just asked.
Every renewal you mark complete is saved to a timeline: dates, cycles, and what you finished each time.
When someone asks for your renewal history, it's already recorded. No reconstructing it from memory.
A renewal date written in an app you have to remember to open is still a renewal date you can forget.
Subscribe your phone, Google, or Apple calendar to a live feed of your deadlines. Free accounts get a one-off calendar file; Pro feeds update themselves when anything changes.
Your renewal should live where your life already does: on your calendar.
The documentation work happens while you log, so an audit letter is a non-event.
A colleague got audited and spent a full day digging through emails for CE certificates. She almost missed the response deadline.
Generate a downloadable PDF that shows your CE progress, completed courses, and category breakdowns, organized and ready.
When your board asks for proof, you shouldn’t have to panic. Export the report and you’re done.
A nurse lost two weeks of income because she had enough total hours but missed a mandatory topic she didn’t know about.
See exactly which mandatory topics your state requires (domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, opioids, human trafficking) and track your progress against each one.
Total hours aren’t enough. Your state has specific topics, and missing one can lapse your license just like missing all of them.
CE certificates saved in a random email folder. When you need them, half are missing and the other half are expired links.
Attach each CE completion certificate to its logged course. The day a board audit lands or an employer asks for proof, it's already in your file.
Your certificates should be where your CE data is. Not buried in your inbox.
Typing every certificate's course name, provider, hours, and date by hand is tedious, and one fat-fingered number throws off your totals.
Upload a CE certificate (PDF or photo) and RenewRN reads the course, provider, hours, date, and category off it. You just glance and confirm. A Pro feature.
Finished a course at 2 AM? Snap the certificate and the entry fills itself in.
Florida's HB 975 fingerprint background screening expires on its own clock, and a lapse can stall your renewal until you re-screen and re-process.
Track your Florida FDLE retention date alongside your license. Pro members get a heads-up at 90, 30, and 7 days so you re-screen before it lapses.
A fingerprint that quietly expired is a renewal hold nobody sees coming. Track it on purpose.
An audit letter gives you about 30 days to produce every certificate for a multi-year period. Most nurses spend that month digging through old emails and ex-employers' systems.
One click builds the whole response: a board-formatted cover letter and CE inventory, every certificate you've attached for the audited period, and a numbered log that cross-references them, in a single ZIP. A Pro feature.
The audit letter is the worst moment to start organizing. With the binder, it's the moment you're already done.
Multi-state nurses re-take courses they've already completed because nobody tells them one course can satisfy several states at once.
Log a course once and RenewRN counts it toward every license whose rules it satisfies, and shows you where one smart course choice covers two requirements. A Pro feature.
Twenty hours shouldn't become sixty just because you hold three licenses.
Certifications, taxes, and getting your data in and out.
Knowing you're 6 hours short is half the problem. Finding courses that fill exactly those gaps, free first, is the other half.
RenewRN matches your remaining requirements against its verified course catalog, free options first, mandatory topics included. Free accounts see the top picks per topic; Pro sees everything.
Your gap list becomes a course list. No more guessing whether a course actually counts.
CCRN and PCCN eligibility hinge on clinical-hour thresholds nurses track in their heads, and either sit on an exam they've already earned or apply too early.
Log your clinical hours toward a certification and RenewRN tells you the day you're eligible to sit, with rules versioned against the certifying body's official source. A Pro feature.
Find out you're exam-eligible from an email, not from re-reading the handbook for the fourth time.
Years of CE history in a CE Broker transcript or a spreadsheet, and no one wants to re-type it row by row.
Upload a CSV or a CE Broker / LMS transcript and RenewRN imports the lot: courses, providers, hours, dates. A Pro feature.
Switching to RenewRN shouldn't cost you an evening of data entry.
Self-employed and 1099 nurses lose deductible CE and license costs every year because the receipts live in five places.
Track what you spent on CE and licensure, then export a tax-year CSV organized for Schedule C. A Pro feature.
At tax time, your CE spending is one export, not an archaeology project.
Your CE record shouldn't be locked inside one app you can never leave.
Download everything you've tracked (licenses, CE entries, the lot) in one export, anytime. Free, because your data is yours.
Switching tools, backing up, or handing records to an employer? Export it and go.
A CE audit gives you about 30 days to produce every certificate for a multi-year period. RenewRN turns that scramble into a non-event, because the work already happened while you were logging CE:
Attach at logging time. Each certificate lives on the course you logged it for, not in a random email folder.
One-click retrieval. Pull any certificate back as a fresh secure link the moment a board or employer asks.
Board-formatted binder. One ZIP with a cover letter, numbered CE inventory, and every attached certificate, formatted for any of the 50 states + DC.
Your files stay yours. Even if you cancel Pro, you can still download every certificate you uploaded. We never hold your records hostage.
Certificate retrieval is intentionally not gated behind Pro. The Pro value is the one-click binder assembly, not access to your own files.
One license and the dashboard countdown are free. Pro adds email reminders and removes the caps for travel nurses and anyone who wants the audit-ready PDF.