Mission Statement

Common misunderstandings when it comes to the abbreviations when it comes to continuing education for nurses, nursing continuing education CEs and CEUs. Nurses need Contact Hours or CEs to renew their nursing license. Nursing CEUs is often a misused abbreviation for Contact Hours. As stated by every BRN and accrediting body; a CEU is a Continuing Education Unit which is generally equal 10 Contact Hours or CEs and a CE is a widely accepted abbreviation for Contact Hour which represents 1 hour of lecture or study material. However, often times Nursing Continuing Education Providers use Nursing CEU when they should be using Nursing CE to represent the number of Contact Hours their course offering is worth. Basically, the only places that you can obtain CEUs are Colleges and Universities for classes that nurses take for undergraduate work as well as graduate work, not an individual course offering by a Continuing Education Provider. To summarize, almost all of the time when you see CEU being used it is being used inappropriately and those providers need to use the appropriate abbreviation, CE. Please be aware that; if for example you take a course through a Continuing Education Providers and their brochure and certificate states that their course is approved for 8 CEUs; what they really mean is that their course is worth 8 CEs or 8 Contact hours, not 80 CEs. We hope this helps clarify continuing education for nurses. When it comes to choosing a Provider of continuing education for nurses, we hope that you choose Dynamic Nursing Education.