Recognition by healthcare professionals

First Aid & CPR New Hampshire

In health care, maintaining high standards of care means staying ready to respond. In New Hampshire, registered nurses keep their competence current through continuing education, while licensed nursing assistants and home-care aides carry CPR skills earned in training and expected on the job. Here is what applies to your role — and how recognized, up-to-date, documented training meets it.

Health professionals: continuing education and up-to-date skills

The New Hampshire Board of Nursing (Office of Professional Licensure and Certification) sets the terms under which registered nurses renew their licence and expects them to keep their competence current. New Hampshire RNs must complete 30 contact hours of nursing-practice-related continuing education every two-year cycle.

Under the state's nursing rules, the educational offerings must be designed to enhance nursing knowledge and skills, and licensees attest to completion at renewal. Basic Life Support is, in practice, an employer and hospital requirement for many clinical roles rather than a standalone licence condition — but maintaining resuscitation skills remains part of the profession's duty to be ready to respond.

New Hampshire registered nurses must complete 30 contact hours per two-year cycle. Provider-accredited advanced resuscitation courses generally count toward the hours, while basic BLS may not always qualify on its own.

The requirement is met by any recognized continuing-education activity on an eligible topic. CPR/AED, ACLS (advanced cardiovascular life support) and PALS are among the eligible activities; other topics also qualify (for example safe prescribing, suicide prevention or violence prevention). A single course therefore both meets the obligation and counts toward your hours — provided you keep the proof.

Eligible courses offered in your region

How training becomes recognized

Not all activities are equal. For continuing education to be recognized by a professional order, it must meet specific criteria:

  • the instructor’s competence;
  • the relevance and quality of the content;
  • the training framework;
  • the quality of the material provided;
  • mechanisms to monitor and assess participation.

In New Hampshire, the Board of Nursing applies the criteria that determine which continuing-education offerings are acceptable at renewal. Our training is designed to meet these criteria.

Rigorous online learning

Our training draws on the latest medical research and combines practical modules with a theoretical assessment. The resulting certification is credible and verifiable — presentable to your professional order and to your employer — and prepares you to excel in your practice.

Support and care staff: a certificate required to work

A CPR and first-aid course does not replace occupational training — it is added to it. To work with vulnerable people, a valid first-aid certificate is often required in addition to your professional training.

For support staff, CPR is embedded in the roughly 100-hour Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) programs, whose graduates receive both a home-health-aide and a CPR credential. Home-care employers and entry-level PCA/HHA roles, which have no state hour minimum, may still require a current CPR card in addition to occupational training — a standalone certificate that a recognized course satisfies and that must be renewed.

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Attestation, certificate and invoice: proof your training is recognized

On successful completion, you receive:

  • an official attestation;
  • a certificate of completion;
  • a detailed invoice;
  • online access to your documents for as long as your certification remains valid.

These documents are the proof to present to your professional order to credit your hours, or to your employer to demonstrate your compliance.

For organizations: keep your team compliant

When the certificate is an employer requirement, the real challenge is tracking. Our organization system manages a team’s training: a certification dashboard, deadline tracking, automatic renewal reminders and proof archiving. An organization keeps its whole staff current without watching every date by hand.

Training aligned with the latest emergency-care standards

Our CPR, AED and first-aid training is developed in line with the most recent international guidelines for emergency cardiovascular care and first aid.

We rigorously follow the recommendations of ILCOR (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation), the international body responsible for the scientific evaluation and development of global resuscitation standards. These recommendations serve as a reference for health organizations, institutions and professional orders worldwide — and are updated as scientific and clinical evidence evolves.

Keep your skills current with confidence

Every intervention can make a difference. Keeping CPR and emergency-care skills current is both a professional requirement and a responsibility toward patients, colleagues and the public.

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