Continuing-Education Audit Guide
Hawaii Nursing CE Audit Response Guide
What to do if the Hawaii Board of Nursing audits your continuing education for the current renewal cycle. Built from Hawaii-specific board guidance, not generic advice.
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Response window
30 days
from audit notice receipt
Records retention
4 years
required by Hawaii Board of Nursing
Submission method
Upload via Hawaii MyPVL portal.
What Hawaii reviewers actually look for
- Hawaii requires 30 contact hours per 2-year cycle from approved providers.
- Trauma-informed care and cultural humility CE are emphasized in audit reviews.
- Hawaii is NOT in the NLC.
Top reasons audit responses get rejected
- Workplace in-services without an ANCC or state-board-approved provider on the certificate: boards routinely reject these.
- BLS/ACLS/PALS certifications submitted as CE hours: these are competencies, not continuing education.
- Journal article reading without an associated CE quiz/certificate from an approved provider.
- Courses from providers whose accreditation lapsed before the renewal cycle's start date.
- Certificates that don't state the contact hours awarded (reviewers can't credit hours they can't see).
- Courses completed BEFORE the audited renewal cycle's start date (you can't use hours twice).
- Screenshots or phone photos of certificates instead of original PDFs or printed certificates.
- Duplicate certificates for the same course title from the same provider: submit once.
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Hawaii Board of Nursing DCCA / PVL Licensing Branch P.O. Box 3469 Honolulu, HI 96801
Always send by trackable mail (certified return-receipt). Keep proof of delivery for your own records.
Step-by-step: respond to a Hawaii CE audit
- 1Read the audit notice carefully. Note the renewal cycle being audited and the 30-day response deadline.
- 2Pull every CE certificate from the audited cycle. Each must show course title, accredited provider number, completion date, and contact hours.
- 3Verify the accredited provider number and contact hours are visible on every certificate page. Hawaii has no separate mandatory-topic categories to group by.
- 4Write a brief cover letter listing your full legal name, license number, the audit reference, and a numbered inventory of attached certificates.
- 5Upload via Hawaii MyPVL portal.
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