Continuing Education

Looking for free and low-cost continuing education resources?

• Free Registration to PNDC 2025 Retired WSDA members who are only using their license for volunteer work and are active participants in the WHAA Volunteer and Retired Providers (VRP) Program can receive a complimentary registration for PNDC 2025, May 8-10 in Seattle. You can earn 20+ CE credits at no additional cost. Please register here using the discount code RETIRE2025 towards the end of the registration process.

• Americares is offering a number of First Aid Mental Health trainings. See additional information here.
• New 2 hours of health equity continuing education requirement for nurses 
  
  Washington nurses must meet health equity continuing education to renew their license. These requirements must be done during the renewal period and can't carry over. As of December 22, 2023, the new health equity CE every renewal period is 2 hours. These hours count toward the RN/LPN 8 hours every renewal period. More information, including free CE options can be found here.
• NAFC CE Opportunity: Quality Interactions offers a complete suite of online courses to meet the continuing education needs of the healthcare community. Providers will be able to earn printable certificates for each continuing education credit from ACCME, ANCC, CCMC, ASWB and ACPE, depending on the course completed. Each course provides 1 Hour of CE. Apply here. Providers must be staff or volunteers at our member organization in good stancing with the NAFC.
  For more information, please email ariana@nafcclinics.org.

• Americares is offering free education series for free and charitable clinics, community health centers, and health safety-net organizations focused on the following skills building opportunities: Diabetes Care and Prevention, Patient-Centered Communication, Time Management, Avoiding Burnout, and more! Get more information and register here. For questions, please email Binta Ceesay at bceesay@americares.org.

• DEA-licensed providers will need to complete training on Substance Use Disorders and Addiction to meet new DEA requirements.Here are some options from the AMA.
• Improve your research skills by joining a HEAL-WA webinar! You’ll learn how to access to the HEAL-WA collection, observe best practices for finding current evidence-based information in HEAL-WA’s databases, ebooks, and full-text journals while earning 1 CNE credit.
• Our partners at the Eastern Washington Area Health Education Center have a comprehensive list of CE opportunities.
• The Washington State Nurses Association offers on demand, continuing nursing education accessible at this site.
• Colgate Oral Health Network maintains a list of free continuing dental education opportunities.
• The American Psychiatric Nurses Association runs free CE courses for all nurses and lists other free CE opportunities at this link.