Category 1: Neuroscience Nursing Education

A minimum of 30 (Option 2) or 40 (Option 3) CE hours must be attended in neuroscience nursing educational courses approved by state or national organizations authorized to grant nursing continuing education credit. 

The following examples can be submitted for CE under Category 1: Neuroscience Nursing Education:

1. Courses attended with DOCUMENTED neuroscience nursing content approved or accredited by ANCC (e.g., the AANN annual meeting), state boards of nursing, AACN, Association of Rehabilitation Nurses, or other nursing CE approvers
2. Neuroscience nursing home study courses approved by similar accrediting bodies.
3. Internet or online neuroscience nursing courses approved as above (e.g., AANN's online JNN articles).
4. Courses taken for academic credit from an accredited college or university and specific to neuroscience. One quarter credit hour equals ten (10) CE hours.  One semester credit hour equals fifteen (15) CE hours.
5. Neuroscience CMEs.  One CME equals one (1) CE hour.

If you attended a course that was only partially or not clearly neuroscience-related, please submit a course syllabus or outline so that the reviewer is able to determine the appropriate amount of CE credit. For example, a course titled "2006 Critical Care Update" may contain some neuroscience content, but based on the title alone this will not be clear to the reviewer unless a course syllabus or outline is submitted.

For all attendance or home study activities, each of the following equals one (1) CE hour:

• 60 minutes of lecture
• 0.1 continuing education unit (CEU)
• 1 continuing education recognition point (CERP)

All activities must be neuroscience-related. Activities that are not neuroscience-related will not be accepted.

If you are looking for ways to earn your Category 1 CE, please click here to view a list of helpful links.