Continuing education in Northern Mariana Islands
The board publishes one specific renewal requirement: every licensee must complete continuing education related to Substance Use Disorder (SUD), and it names the online providers it accepts for it — CEUfast, the American Nurses Association, NursingCE, NurseCE4Less, NetCE and Relias. Keep the certificate of completion, which the board asks for at renewal. What the board does NOT publish on that page is a total contact-hour figure, so treat the SUD requirement as an addition to whatever total applies rather than as the whole of it, and confirm the total with the board.
Read directly from the board: nmibon.info/. Requirements change, and the board is the only authority on the current one — confirm before you rely on it.
Renewing through the Northern Mariana Islands Board of Nursing
Renewal applications, fees, and continuing-education requirements are handled by the Northern Mariana Islands Board of Nursing. These are board-set and change over time, so we point you to the official source rather than list figures that could go stale. See the general compact license renewal guide for how the compact fits in.
The law that governs this in Northern Mariana Islands
Renewing a license issued by Northern Mariana Islands happens under Northern Mariana Islands’s own nurse practice act — the same act that defines what practice means here — administered by the Northern Mariana Islands Board of Nursing. That act is Northern Mariana Islands Board of Nursing — licensing authority.
There is no compact statute to cite for Northern Mariana Islands, which is the substantive point rather than a gap in our research: Northern Mariana Islands has not adopted the compact, so the practice act above is the whole of the law that applies to you here.
Finding your expiration date
Nursys QuickConfirm shows your license type, status, and expiration date — the fastest way to confirm when you need to renew and whether you hold a single-state or multistate license.
Renewal and out-of-state practice
A Northern Mariana Islands license renews for Northern Mariana Islands only. If you practice in other states, you either hold each state’s license or a multistate license from a compact home state — and that multistate license renews separately in that home state.
Can renewing in Northern Mariana Islands get you a multistate license?
No — and not because of anything about your application. Northern Mariana Islands has not adopted the compact, so the Northern Mariana Islands Board of Nursing does not issue multistate licenses to anyone. Renewing keeps your Northern Mariana Islands license valid in Northern Mariana Islands; it cannot upgrade it into something Northern Mariana Islands does not offer. A multistate license only ever comes from your primary state of residence, and only if that state is a compact member.