Western Schools
At Western Schools, we have one purpose: helping healthcare professionals achieve more in their career. With a focus on in-depth courses for nurses, Western Schools continuing education empowers our students to expand their career options while providing their patients with the best possible care.
Western Schools Continuing Education has joined Elite Healthcare
20+ years of experience. Thousands of hours of CE. Two education providers. One learning family.
For decades, both Elite Learning and Western Schools have been committed to providing the highest quality continuing education courses with the goal of empowering you, our students. With this shared goal in mind, joining forces just makes sense. When you’re looking for nursing CEUs to meet your state requirements, you can trust Western and Elite to have what you need.
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Passport Membership
Includes The Western CE Series
The Western CE Series is Included
Get the full Western Schools CEU catalog including the in-depth CE Series
State-Required CE
Get the state-required CE you need, no matter where you practice
Unlimited Podcast CE Access
Unlimited CE credit for listening to Elite CE podcasts on apps like Apple, Spotify & YouTube
Extensive CE Library
Choose from a library of 250+ courses across 25+ specialties in the formats you love most (online, video, text, webinar & podcast)
Pharmacology Course Library
Includes DEA MATE Act Substance Use Disorder Training
Premium Specialty Course Collections
In-depth, multi-hour courses spanning 10+ nursing specialties
Elite Nursing Passport CE
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Featured Courses
Western Schools CEU Catalog – The Western CE Series
Grief & Bereavement
Loss, Grief and Bereavement, 5th Edition
This course provides an understanding of the foundation of the impact of death, loss, and grief on the clinician so that he or she can develop the ability to provide compassionate care to patients during their time of need.
Mental Health
Depression: A Major Public Health Concern, 2nd Edition
This course provides current, evidence-based information about depression for nurses from a variety of backgrounds.
Trauma Nursing
Essentials of Trauma Nursing, 3rd Edition
This course provides nurses with comprehensive content on trauma nursing care. Serving as a reference, and perfect for those practicing in trauma and non-trauma clinical areas who desire to know more about trauma care.
About Western Schools
For more than 30 years, Western Schools has been a leader in continuing education in the healthcare field, offering in-depth, peer-reviewed courses authored by nurses for nurses. Through our process of quality development and rigorous review, Western Schools offers healthcare professionals the highest quality, convenient, and affordable courses needed to fulfill their re-licensure, certification, and other professional education needs.
As a nationally accredited continuing education provider, Western Schools offers more than 1,400 continuing education hours across several nursing specialties. Since its founding in 1978, Western Schools has served more than 1 million practitioners through its commitment to the growth and lifelong learning of healthcare professionals.
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In our continuing mission to bring you the best possible learning experience, Western Schools nursing CEUs have migrated to Elite Learning.
You’ll continue to have access to all the quality learning you value, including specialty topics and in-depth courses, and specialty topic course bundles, plus so much more, all accessible on the Elite Learning platform.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Learn more about Western Schools joining Elite Learning
What’s happening to my current Western Schools courses?
You can still complete any current courses that are active in your Western Schools student account. You can also view certificates for Western courses you’ve already completed in your student dashboard.
I’m a WS365 member. What happens to my membership during the migration?
Current WS365 members will be automatically enrolled in the Elite Nursing Passport Membership with the same expiration date as their previous Western membership.
What is the Elite Nursing Passport?
Passport is your ticket to more. As a Passport member, you’ll get unlimited access to over 200 hours of nursing CEUs in the Elite Learning library for a full year. Learn more about what you get with Passport here
What is the Western CE Series?
Now available on the Elite website, the Western CE Series offers healthcare professionals with an in-depth collection of master class courses on specialty topics for nursing professionals. Learn more here
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