Acceptable Contact Hour Providers
To be counted, your contact hours must be awarded through one of the following providers:
- American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
- An agency, organization, or educational institution accredited by ANCC
- State boards of nursing in Alabama, California, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nevada, Ohio, and West Virginia
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)
- Any state nurses' association
- American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN)
- Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), formerly NAACOG
- American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA)
- American Academy of Family Practitioners (AAFP)
- American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
- American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)
- American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM)
- National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH)
- National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners (NAPNAP)
- Physician PRA Category 1 CME (Fifty percent (62.5) of the required number of contact hours may be earned through CMEs)
Please note: to use any ACLS, PALS, BCLS, or BLS courses, you must receive a certificate of completion awarding you contact hours from one of these Accredited Providers as well as your card. A copy of the certificate is required to be submitted via email, fax, or mail.
"MedCEU" Alert: Please be aware that the organization "MedCEU" aka "American Medical Education, Inc" is neither accredited by ANCC nor approved through any of the ANCC approvers and therefore contact hours earned through them cannot be used for CNOR or CRNFA recertification.