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Article: Contact Hours Versus Continuing Education Units.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- AORN Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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The definitions of contact hours and continuing education units (CEUs)--and the difference between the two--often are misunderstood. Although the terms seem interchangeable, they have different meanings.
Several years ago, the nursing community and the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation decided to use the term contact hour rather than CEU because of the confusion between the two measurement systems. As AORN is accredited by ANCC, AORN uses contact hours as its measurement of continuing education.
One contact hour of continuing education is equal to 50 ...