LibGuides: Northwell: Nursing: Resources for Popular Nursing Certifications: Home

Introduction

Welcome!

This guide contains resources available to Northwell employees and Hofstra School of Nursing students for common nursing certification exams. Most of the books and articles linked here are drawn from the reference list on the certification exam guide.

If you have updates or suggestions for this guide, please email lena.g.bohman@hofstra.edu.

Free Nursing CEUs Guide

Free Nursing CEUs Guide
This guide contains links to sources of free CEUs for nurses, organized by topic. Some platforms are free to Northwell/Hofstra School of Nursing team members via the library and some are freely available to all on the web.

Free Nursing CEU Sources

CDC TRAIN
Platform from the CDC with trainings from a variety of government agencies. When searching, make sure to filter "Credit Type" to "ANCC" for courses with nursing CEUs. Instructions for getting CEUs through TRAIN are here.
Indian Health Service Clinical Training
ANA Continuing Education
Mix of paid and free trainings.
Clinical Key for Nursing
Available via the library. Separate account required.
Northwell Access
Hofstra Access
CINAHL Continuing Education
Available via the library. Separate account required. All courses on this platform are worth one contact hour. View FAQs on CINAHL CEUs here.
NNLM Training
CNE courses: PubMed Essentials (on demand), Assessing health education materials (on demand), Beyond the binary, Health literacy (on demand), How PubMed works (on demand), Making sense of numbers (webinar), Prescription and over the counter drugs (on demand)