Guide · Tennessee renewal walkthrough · checked October 22, 2026
Tennessee runs a work-clock renewal system: You must provide verification of at least 8 hours of paid work in a licensed or certified health care facility during the past 24 months. Private duty, sitter and companion services, and private physicians' offices do not count. Proof is a pay stub or payroll printout naming the facility, you, a date, and the hours worked, or a notarized facility attestation form. Credentia emails a renewal reminder about 120 days before expiration (secondary).
The Tennessee Nurse Aide Registry (Division of Health Care Facility Licensure, HFC) — registry: Tennessee Nurse Aide Registry · 888-204-6249.
No renewal fee and no continuing-education requirement.
In Tennessee, an expired certification is not renewed — it is reinstated, and reinstatement demands proof of 8 hours worked for each year in a look-back that begins the year before your expiration year and runs through the current year. Let it lapse “just a little” and the documentation multiplies. If continuous facility employment can't be documented across that whole window, the route back is retrain and retest.
Renewal instructions assume you're still inside the window. If you're not sure you are, run the status checker with your real dates first — it computes active, at-risk, or lapsed and names your cheapest route back. Your state's full rule table, lapse tiers, and transfer-in verdicts live on the Tennessee state page. The general mechanics behind every state's renewal are in CNA renewal, explained plainly.
Procedure summarized from the registry and state pages in our dataset, checked October 22, 2026. The registry's own page is the authority — confirm there before a deadline that matters.
