Can You Be A Registered Rn In Multiple States

Are there any special requirements for being licensed in 2 states?

Question:

Dear Nancy,

I volition be graduating from nursing schoolhouse shortly. I would like to get a license in one state because I have a chore offer in that location. Eventually, I would like to become a license in some other land. Can I do that? If then, are there whatever special requirements?

Davida

Nancy Brent replies:

Love Davida,

There is zip prohibiting you from being licensed in several states. Obviously, the state in which you have a job would exist the first place to obtain licensure. While working at that place, write to the lath of nursing in the state yous as well wish to obtain licensure. You lot tin can become this information on the board'southward website. Then follow the instructions for applying for a license in the second state. Oftentimes, the forms you lot need can be downloaded from the website. The process of obtaining the 2d license may be termed "endorsement" or "reciprocity", so look for those terms as you do your inquiry.

Annotation that if both states are members of the Nurse Licensure Meaty, the process of obtaining the second license will be unlike than if 1 or both of us are not members of the NLC. You can read more than near the NLC by going to the National Quango of State Boards of Nursing's website (www.ncsbn.org), click on the tab Nursing Education, Licensure and Practice, and then click on Nurse Licensure Compact from the driblet-down carte du jour.

Sincerely,
Nancy