Nursing Contact Hour Application Process
Children’s of Alabama (COA) is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the Alabama Board of Nursing (ABN): ABNP0113, Expiration Date: 03/10/2029.
Children’s of Alabama is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Provider Number: 5-173, Expiration date: 12/31/2028
To be assigned continuing education credits through Children's of Alabama, the program/course must be provided by a Children's of Alabama employee, for Children's of Alabama employees or permit Children's of Alabama employees to attend.
Nursing Continuing Education (contact hours) Application Process:
Children’s of Alabama Nursing Continuing Education Application Forms
- Instructions for Continuing Education 01 2026
- Application 01 2026
- Enduring Activity Addendum for Recorded Live Program 08 2024
- Evaluation 04 2024
- Multi Speaker Evaluation 04 2024
- Summative Evaluation 11 2024
- Attendance Verification 11 2024
- Multi Session Attendance Verification 11 2024
- Speaker Form 04 2024 (Speaker forms are completed yearly. View who has completed link to jotform)
- Financial Relationship Form 03 2025 (Financial Relationship Forms are completed yearly & with changes. View who has completed link to jotform)
- Joint_Provider_ Agreement_v5.2022
- Commercial_Support_Agreement_v.5.2022
Resources
- Blooms_Taxonomy_Action_Verbs
- Commercial_Support_and_Sponsorship Decision Tree_v.5.2022
- Guide-to-Preforming_a_Needs_Assementment_and_Gap_Analysis_-_v5.2022
- Outcomes_vs_Objectives_v7.2020
- Standards_for_Integrity_and_Independence_in_Accredidited_Continuing_Education
- Writing Learning Outcomes CNE Webpage
Submit completed application to NursingContinuingEducation@childrensal.org or ann.bentley@childrensal.org at least 2 weeks prior to activity.
For questions see Nursing Continuing Education and Nursing Continuing Education – Application Process policies or email NursingContinuingEducation@childrensal.org, or ann.bentley@childrensal.org.










