Contact Hour Resources
Certification Resources for Maintaining Your Professional Board Certification
There are a variety of ways to achieve the number of contact hours your professional board certification requires. Below are several resources that are available to you. Remember to make a plan specific to maintaining your certification, as each certification is different!
Resources Available through your Professional Organization
Join your professional organization and gain access to pertinent contact hours, publications, virtual events and more!
Click on the link in the left-column to review a list of professional organization to consider joining at the local, regional and/or national level.
Resources through UVA
Workday Courses
Nurses - Medscape, LLC at www.medscape.com/nurses- Create a free account and access thousands of free CME/CE courses, comprised of 30+ specialty-focused websites. Each course notes ANCC Contact Hour(s) ranging from 0.25 credits to 2 credits. Log-in, explore and track your contact hours.
UVA Nursing live classes and events with Contact Hours advertised- Review the NPDS Calendar for class opportunities as well as the NPGO Weekly Blast for upcoming events.
Relias provides more than 800 continuing education classes to make it easy for Nurses to stay certified! Relias (previously CE Direct) is available to UVA University Medical Center RNs by Nursing Professional Development Services and offers both certification review courses and continuing education hours for maintaining your professional board certification.
To log into Relias:
- Log into Workday
- Use the menu to select “Learning”
- At the top, you will see an image of the Relias Continuing Education portal. Click on “Access Courses”
Accessing the certification preparation resources in Relias:
- Click on “Course Library” in the left-hand menu
- Using the top-right search bar “Search Course Library”, search by topic or specialty you are interested in
- Do not use “Filter” option to enrollReview the provided options
- Select the course and click “Enroll”
- Click on “Assignments” in left-column menu to access and complete the courses you enrolled in
Transcripts:
You may access and download your Relias transcripts from the left-hand menu. These are specific to Relias (previously CE Direct) and are not included in your Workday Learning transcript. Be sure to track and save these separately.
If you cannot access Relias, or are having issues signing in, please contact NPDSERVICES@uvahealth.org. Click here to access the NPDS Online CE Resources Website for more information.