Nurse Aide · rules checked October 22, 2026
Stay active by working as a nurse aide in a paid position within 24 months of your last date of previous employment (secondary guides quantify this as at least 8 hours of paid nurse aide work in a Nebraska-licensed healthcare setting every 24 months). No renewal application or fee is required; employment keeps/reports your active status.
If you have never worked for pay since certifying, use your certification date.
| Credential | Nurse Aide |
|---|---|
| Registry | Nebraska Nurse Aide Registry (Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services) · (402) 471-4322 |
| Training required | 76 hours |
| Exam | State-approved testing providers (Nebraska Health Care Learning Center) — $100 (written $50 · skills $50) |
| How renewal works | Stays active through paid work inside the window — no calendar expiry while you keep working. Renewal fee: $0. |
| Keep-active work rule | Stay active by working as a nurse aide in a paid position within 24 months of your last date of previous employment (secondary guides quantify this as at least 8 hours of paid nurse aide work in a Nebraska-licensed healthcare setting every 24 months). No renewal application or fee is required; employment keeps/reports your active status. |
| Continuing education | No continuing education requirement to stay on the registry. Training includes a 1-hour abuse/neglect/misappropriation component (see training note). |
| Who reports your work | Your employer does — if they fail to, you can show as inactive while working |
Changing soon: The state-approved course is universally marketed as a 76-hour class: the 75-hour statutory minimum plus the 1-hour Nebraska abuse/neglect training. Exam fees are set by the approved testing provider ($50 written + $50 clinical at NHCLC).
A lapsed nurse aide reactivates by retaking and passing both the written/oral and clinical exams through an approved re-competency testing provider (both may be taken the same day; allow about three weeks for records to update). No retraining is required, except nurse aides who took a 30-hour course before 1989 and were grandfathered must take the full 75-hour nurse aide course instead of retesting.
A lapsed nurse aide reactivates by retaking and passing both the written/oral and clinical exams through an approved re-competency testing provider (both may be taken the same day; allow about three weeks for records to update). No retraining is required, except nurse aides who took a 30-hour course before 1989 and were grandfathered must take the full 75-hour nurse aide course instead of retesting.
Nebraska issues no paper certificates or license cards for nurse aides; verification is online and a wallet card can be generated from the registry record.
Nebraska has a published process to petition for removal of a single, neglect-only registry finding after at least 1 year. Abuse and misappropriation findings cannot be removed. Details — free, and with no strings — on the registry findings page.
Application fee: $0 · typical processing: Up to 30 days after DHHS receives a complete application. DHHS Interstate Endorsement application: you must be active on the other state's registry, have completed a minimum 75-hour nurse aide training program, have passing written and clinical exam scores, and have nurse aide employment in the last 24 months (unless you tested in the last 24 months). Every aide coming into Nebraska must also complete Nebraska's 1-hour in-service on reporting abuse and neglect before being made active. Retest condition: if you have not worked or tested within 24 months, you must pass the Nebraska competency exam. Work-history requirement: Nurse aide employment within the last 24 months (waived if you passed a competency exam within the last 24 months). Trap: if you have EVER been active on the Nebraska Nurse Aide Registry, you are not eligible for interstate endorsement at all; you must reactivate by retesting or employment verification instead. No registry endorsement fee; secondary fee tables list a possible $25-$30 cost for the abuse/neglect training itself.
The table below is computed for an active aide in good standing, trained to the origin state's standard hours. Your own hours or status can change your row — run the transfer checker with your real facts.
| Certified in | Verdict for Nebraska | Fee | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Alaska | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Arizona | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Arkansas | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| California | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Colorado | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Connecticut | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Delaware | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| District of Columbia | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Florida | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Georgia | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Hawaii | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Idaho | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Illinois | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Indiana | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Iowa | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Kansas | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Kentucky | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Louisiana | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Maine | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Maryland | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Massachusetts | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Michigan | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Minnesota | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Mississippi | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Missouri | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Montana | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Nebraska | Same state — no transfer needed | ||
| Nevada | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| New Hampshire | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| New Jersey | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| New Mexico | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| New York | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| North Carolina | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| North Dakota | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Ohio | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Oklahoma | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Oregon | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Pennsylvania | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Rhode Island | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| South Carolina | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| South Dakota | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Tennessee | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Texas | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Utah | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Vermont | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Virginia | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Washington | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| West Virginia | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Wisconsin | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
| Wyoming | Accepted — with conditions | $0 | Nebraska accepts active certifications with a work-history requirement, a possible exam, decided on your file. |
The kit carries Nebraska's full recovery path — the forms, the order to file them, the phone scripts — plus transfer checklists for every destination. See the kit →
