Free Nurse Practitioner CME Courses

Nurse practitioners (NPs) are essential leaders in today’s healthcare system, providing patient-centered care across a broad range of specialties—from family practice and internal medicine to acute care, women’s health, pediatrics, and psychiatry. With growing responsibilities and increasing autonomy, NPs must stay current on evolving guidelines, new therapies, and emerging healthcare trends. FreeCME offers a comprehensive collection of free online CME courses for nurse practitioners, providing high-quality, evidence-based content designed to support clinical excellence and ongoing certification—all at no cost.

Each course is developed in collaboration with accredited continuing education providers, ensuring content that meets national standards and aligns with current clinical guidelines. Whether you’re managing chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension, diagnosing acute conditions, prescribing new medications, or counseling patients on preventive care, our CME offerings are created with your real-world practice in mind. These courses are especially beneficial for NPs seeking to fulfill license renewal or certification maintenance requirements, including those certified by organizations such as the AANP (American Association of Nurse Practitioners) and ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center).

All activities are available in a convenient, self-paced, online format—perfect for busy clinicians balancing patient care, documentation, and administrative duties. Upon completing each course and a short post-test, you can immediately download your CME or CE certificate, making it easy to document your learning and stay in compliance with state and national requirements.

FreeCME’s course offerings for nurse practitioners cover a wide range of core and advanced practice topics, including:

• Primary care and family medicine, including wellness visits, screening guidelines, and chronic disease management

• Women’s health, such as contraception counseling, menopause management, and breast cancer screening

• Pediatrics, including developmental milestones, immunizations, and common childhood illnesses

• Mental and behavioral health, including depression, anxiety, ADHD, and substance use disorders

• Acute care topics, such as sepsis, respiratory infections, pain management, and emergency triage

• Pharmacology and prescribing updates, with a focus on safe prescribing, new drug approvals, and polypharmacy

• Health promotion and prevention, including lifestyle interventions, nutrition, and motivational interviewing

These CME activities are applicable to NPs practicing in outpatient clinics, hospitals, urgent care centers, long-term care facilities, and specialty settings. Many of the courses integrate guideline updates from organizations such as the CDC, USPSTF, AHA, and AAFP, helping you stay aligned with national recommendations while caring for a diverse patient population.