Registered Nurse (RN) license renewal, state by state

Every state licenses registered nurse (rn) differently: different renewal cycles, different CE hour requirements, different fees. Pick your state below for the exact numbers, each one sourced from the board and dated.

The RN reference shelf

None of these count toward CE hours. They are the references working nurses buy for the job itself.

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Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions and Rationales(opens on Amazon)
Doenges, Moorhouse and Murr, 15th edition
Care plans arranged by diagnosis. The one that lives in a bag rather than on a shelf.
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses(opens on Amazon)
F.A. Davis, revised annually
Revised every year, so this opens the current edition instead of pinning you to an old one.
Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference(opens on Amazon)
Elsevier, revised annually
What a value means and what to do next, arranged by test rather than by system.
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives(opens on Amazon)
Theresa Brown
One oncology shift, written by the nurse who worked it. Read rather than reference.

Nothing on this shelf is board approved and none of it counts toward Registered Nurse (RN) continuing education. For hours that count, use your board's approved provider list.