I’m in California and need 30 hours by the end of June, and I’m trying to stop relying on a messy spreadsheet. A few of you mentioned Nurse.com and CEUfast in other threads; has anyone used CE Broker or another app to store certs and auto-track, and did it make renewal any smoother?
I’m in CA too — CE Broker’s free tier has been enough; it tracks hours and stores certs, but there’s no direct BRN auto-reporting so you still attest in BreEZe (https://www.cebroker.com). Set a “June 30” goal in the app and snap each certificate in right after a course; it’s felt like a sock drawer instead of a laundry pile. If you link a provider account like CEUfast, it can auto‑import completions when supported — does that cover what you’re after?
CEUfast for content + CE Broker just for tracking has been simplest for me — after each course I ‘self-report’ in the CE Broker app and snap the cert, and I set a reminder the week before the end of June to double-check hours. @TechNurse is right about BreEZe; the mobile upload and a single transcript made renewal way smoother than my old spreadsheet. Do you have any hospital LMS credits you can pull in?
Quick tip that cut my chaos: I export a monthly transcript from my CE site and save it as one PDF in a folder named ‘CA CE 2024–2026’, then append ACLS/BLS or conference certs. It doesn’t auto-report to CA, but at BreEZe I just attest and I’m audit-ready — @trail.harbor have you tried using the transcript instead of wrangling single certs?
Small automation that helped: I set a Gmail filter to tag any message with “Certificate of Completion” and a Zap to auto-save the PDF to a Drive folder and ping me 25 days before my license expires — kind of a Roomba for CE… You still attest in BreEZe, but having everything land in one place made renewal take five minutes. @OP would you rather use an app like NurseGrid (https://nursegrid.com) or a simple email-to-Drive workflow?
I park all CE PDFs in EverCheck Wallet and set its reminders; with a simple filename like “2024–2026 CA RN – Course – 2.0h” it stays painless at crunch time. Small caveat for CA: you still just attest and keep proof — no app talks to the state — see Continuing Education for License Renewal (a tidy shoebox for receipts). Do you prefer iOS or Android if you want a quick shortcut to auto-drop new certs into that same spot?
What finally stuck for me was a Notion table with fields for course, hours, date, and provider; a simple formula sums only the hours between my last renewal and June 30, and I attach each certificate to the row so I can export one clean PDF if I’m audited… For CA there’s no true auto-sync, so I follow BRN’s “keep records for four years” guidance and keep this link handy: https://www.rn.ca.gov/licensees/renewal.shtml.