The renewal calendar

Washington renews a credential on its holder’s birthday. There is no common deadline, no annual notice, and no month in which the profession renews together.

Why this is harder than it sounds

A fixed statewide renewal date can be looked up once and remembered. A birthday cannot: it is different for every one of the 553,932 people in this register, and the only way to know yours is to look up your own credential. That is what the search at the top of this page is for.

Nursing credentials renew annually; advanced practice renews every two years, with 30 hours of continuing education and 15 more in pharmacology where there is prescriptive authority. Late renewal is possible — up to a year for most nursing credentials, two for advanced practice — but a lapsed credential reads as lapsed on the day someone checks it.

The Department records a continuing-education due date for 320,976 credentials (57.9%). Where it is absent, that means the file does not carry the date, not that no hours are owed.

By year

Years with at least 2,000 credentials get a page of their own — 4 of them, covering 99.5% of the register.

A reminder before yours runs out

Since the date is your birthday and nobody sends a notice in the press, the commonest way to let a credential lapse is simply to forget. Leave your details and we will tell you when yours is close, and pass your request for continuing-education hours to providers who teach for it.

We take no commission and we vouch for no training provider. We have no arrangement with any provider today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.