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Best Online Resources for Continuing Education (CEUs)

Best Online Resources for Continuing Education (CEUs)

Are you searching for the best places to find continuing education units online to maintain your certifications? You've come to the right place. Here, we've scoured the web to find the best places online to complete those pesky CEUs with ease.

Although there are hundreds, if not thousands, of places to find and complete CEUs, we've searched for those that go above and beyond to bring you the credits you need with ease. The following list is not ranked due to the sheer number of sites offering credits combined with the high number of careers that need them. This makes ranking any one particular CEU site over another very difficult. So, we've listed what we believe to be the best overall, including ease-of-use, CEU availability, cost, etc.

The Best Places to Find Continuing Education Online:

NurseCEU.com

NurseCEU.com offers pretty much what the name implies, continuing education primarily aimed at nurses. However, they do offer other courses all healthcare professionals that are looking to maintain their certifications will find useful, including the following areas:


  • Cardiovascular
  • Case Management
  • Child Abuse
  • Complementary Health
  • Critical Care Nursing
  • Domestic Violence
  • Drug & Chemical Dependency
  • Emergency Nursing
  • Endocrine
  • Ethics & Advocacy
  • Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat
  • Gastrointestinal
  • General Medicine
  • Geriatric
  • Home Nursing
  • Hospice
  • Infection Control
  • Infectious Disease
  • IV Therapy
  • Lab & Imaging
  • Legal Issues

  • Management
  • Men's Health
  • Neonatal Care
  • Neurology
  • Nurse Practitioner
  • Obstetrics
  • Oncology
  • Orthopedics
  • Pain Management
  • Pediatrics
  • Perioperative
  • Pharmacology
  • Professional Issues
  • Psychology
  • Rehabilitation
  • Respiratory
  • State-Mandated Topics
  • Telephone Nursing
  • Urology
  • Women's Health
  • Wound Care


The site also offers an array of free CEU courses, so check them out!

MedlineUniversity.com

MedlineUniveristy.com currently offers 250 free CEU courses and covers the majority of the same categories that NurseCEU.com offers as well. Their courses can be sorted by career/role and healthcare categories, including:


  • Across the Continuum of Care
  • Central Sterile
  • Continence and Incontinence
  • Critical Care
  • Dietary/Nutrition
  • Documentation
  • Emergency & Trauma
  • F-Tag Compliance
  • Geriatrics
  • Infection Prevention
  • Leadership
  • Legal Aspects of Nursing

  • Materials Management
  • Operating Room
  • Pain Management
  • Pediatrics
  • Psych/Neuro
  • Quality Improvement
  • Respiratory
  • Safety
  • Skin and Wound Care
  • Sustainability
  • Taking Care of Me
  • Team Work


Additionally, MedlineUniversity offers patient and family education as well, providing patients with answers to their many healthcare questions and peace-of-mind.

NetCE.com

NetCE.com's purpose is "to provide challenging curricula to assist healthcare professionals to raise their levels of expertise while fulfilling their continuing education requirements, thereby improving the quality of healthcare." They currently boast over 1,000 hours of accredited CEUs and are accredited/approved for the following careers:
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  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physicians
  • Physician Assistants
  • Social Workers
  • Counselors / Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Nursing Home Administrators

  • Dentists
  • Dental Hygienists / Assistants
  • CSTs / CSFAs
  • Certified Surgical Assistants
  • Certified Nurse Assistants
  • Certified Case Managers
  • Certified Diabetes Educators
  • Dietetic Technicians

EchelonEd.com

EchelonEd.com offers nationally-accredited online courses designed to "engage your mind and interact with you." They claim to be tired of boring online courses and are trying to fulfill the same requirements in a more entertaining way.

However, their CEUs are more specialized and only available to handful of healthcare specialties, including:

  • Faith Community Nursing
  • Imaging
  • Nursing
  • Occupational-Physical Therapy
  • Sonography

There are several free courses too check out, like Cardiac Electrophysiology for Nuclear Medicine Technology. Prices range from free up to $250 for the high-end courses.

TheOnlineLearningCenter.com

The Philips Learning Connection - Online Learning Center offers over 1,200 healthcare continuing education credits and learning activities professsionals seeking to advance their career or simply maintain the certifications they've already secured.

They offer credits for the following careers:


  • Nurses
  • Radiologic Technologists
  • Sonographers
  • MRI Technologists
  • CT Technologists
  • Mammographers

  • X-Ray Technologists
  • Cardiovascular & EP
  • Nuclear Medicine/PET
  • Dental Professionals
  • Dosimetrists
  • Respiratory Therapists

TheOnlineLearnCenter.com also boasts a complete online platform that allows users to easily manage their educational requirements and work at their own pace.

WildIrisMedicalEducation.com

WildIrisMedicalEducation.com offers healthcare professionals a convenient and easy-to-use platform for maintaining certifications. However, compared to some of the others on our list, they offer credits for only a small number of careers, including:

  • Nursing
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • EMT/Paramedic

However, their platform is also mobile responsive, so if you're on the go and need to get your CEUs in, check them out!

HTHU.net

Hometown Health University offers accredited online healthcare courses to professionals seeking to broaden their horizons. They currently serve over 7,000 students nationwide and boast courses in 14 categories, including:


  • Revenue Cycle Management
  • PFS/Business Office Certifications
  • Clinical/Staff Compliance
  • Health Information Technology
  • Clinical/Staff Compliance
  • Customized Education
  • Healthcare Solutions Free Training

  • Physician Office
  • Special Topics Webinars
  • Coding/Documentation
  • Long Term Care
  • Hospital Board Governance Program
  • Student & Educator Programs
  • Nursing Continuing Education
  • Patient Experience

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