Illinois Nursing CE Renewal Package
Meet your CE requirements today with the Nurse.com ANCC-accredited IL 20-hour State Renewal package. This one-click package provides CE courses you need to meet the license, re-licensure, and certification requirements of the Illinois Board of Nursing. View your options below and get started on your nursing CE renewal today.
20-Hour Renewal Package
$35.99
Includes all IL-required courses
Includes 20-contact hours
Instant certificate upon completion!
Tests are required for completion
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Illinois Nursing CE Requirements
Total Hours Required: 20
Elective Hours: 16
Renewal Cycle in Years: 2
All RN licenses expire May 31st every two years.
All RNs in the State of Illinois who wish to maintain an active license are required to complete 20 hours of continuing education for license renewal.
For license renewal, RNs must complete:
- 1 hour of sexual harassment
- 1 hour of implicit bias
- 1 hour of cultural competency
- 1 hour of diagnosis, treatment and care of Alzheimer's disease, along with other dementia types
- Three hours of the diagnosis, treatment, and care of individuals with cognitive impairments, including, but not limited to, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias at initial licensure ONLY
Total Hours Required: 20
Elective Hours: 16
Renewal Cycle in Years: 2
All LPNs in the State of Illinois who wish to maintain an active license are required to complete 20 hours of continuing education for license renewal.
For license renewal, LPNs must complete:
- 1 hour of sexual harassment
- 1 hour of implicit bias
- 1 hour of cultural competency
- 1 hour of diagnosis, treatment and care of Alzheimer's disease, along with other dementia types
- Three hours of the diagnosis, treatment, and care of individuals with cognitive impairments, including, but not limited to, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias at initial licensure ONLY
About Our Illinois Renewal Package
Complete your Illinois nursing license renewal requirements in one convenient 20-contact hour online course package. Whether you’re an RN or LPN this online package gives you exactly what you need to complete your requirements. No test is required for the majority of courses, and you earn individual certificates for each course in the package and a single overall certificate once all courses are complete.
Regardless of your specialty or care setting, you need quality continuing education to complete your Illinois state nursing license renewal requirements. Take the guesswork out of your continuing education with one convenient course package.
- Sexual Harassment: Illinois Licensed Professionals
- Cultivating Awareness: Implicit Bias for Healthcare Professionals
- Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders: Approaches to Treatment
- Culture and Pain Management: Cultural Competence
- View All Included Courses ❯
Please Note: This course package does not include the one-time three hour requirement of caring for people with cognitive impairements (Alzheimer's/dementia) for practitioners working with adult populations. Please refer to your board for more information.
Additional Information: State regulations require some courses in this package to contian posttests.
Goal and Learning Outcomes
- Understand the eight essential health behaviors for cardiovascular health and how patients can optimize their cardiovascular health.
- Recognize the factors that influence communication and consistently apply effective communication techniques to improve patient satisfaction, safety, and outcomes.
- Understand the ethical principles and responsibilities of healthcare professionals and apply an ethical decision-making model to ethical issues and dilemmas in clinical practice.
- Understand HIPAA regulations, privacy, and security, and the role of healthcare professionals in the protection of an individual's healthcare information.
- Understand the historical context of the LGBTQ+ population and best practices when interacting with and providing care for the LGBTQ+ population.
Accreditation Information
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791
Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.
CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
Please check the licenses/certifications section under my account (after logging in) to make sure you have entered a valid license number. This information is required for correct reporting of your course completions to CE Broker.
Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
IL 20-Hour CE Renewal Package
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