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The Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) is an agreement that allows mutual recognition (reciprocity) of a nursing license between member U.S. states ("compact states"). Enacted into law by the participating states, the NLC allows a nurse who is a legal resident of and possesses a nursing license in a compact state (their "home state") to practice in any of the other compact states (the "remote ...
Successful completion of NCLEX-RN is required for state licensure as an RN. Nurses may complete licensing requirements in more than one state. Jurisdictions that adopted the Nurse Licensure Compact accept licenses granted in others without requiring a separate certification. Licenses must be periodically renewed.
Nurse Licensure Compact (33 states) [29] Recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate CompAct (REPLICA, or EMS Compact; 20 states) [30] Western States Pact (California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Washington) [31] Eastern States Multi-state Council (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware) [32]
The approval comes as the state takes the first steps to implement the Nurse Licensure Compact — an agreement it has with 40 other states that allows registered nurses, licensed practical ...
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a certification body for nursing board certification and the largest certification body for advanced practice registered nurses in the United States, [1] as of 2011 certifying over 75,000 APRNs, including nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists.
A travel nurse may receive a minimal orientation to the new hospital (and rarely no orientation at all). If the nurse's home state has joined the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), the nurse can work in any other compact state as long as the home state license is in good standing, and the permanent residence is in a compact state. This facilitates ...
2004 – The National Council of State Boards of Nursing initiated its Nursing License Compact which allows an RN who holds a license in one Compact state (USA), to work in another Compact state without having that state's license. (As of 2015 there are twenty-four Compact states and four with pending legislation to join.) [99]
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