Two weeks ago, on 1 October, Connecticut switched on the Nurse Licensure Compact. In July, Pennsylvania did the same. That makes 40 states where one multistate nursing license lets you work, the biggest single year of expansion since the compact was rebuilt in 2018. If you have been waiting for this...
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Where to move next? A stressful question for some, but not for Registered Nurses who chose the travel nursing life! Thanks to a booming job market, there are always plentiful promising options. You have the luxury of choice! There’s just one thing that can get in the way. Few things have made life f...
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Now that Pennsylvania has opened its doors to registered nurses with a multistate license, it’s suddenly a lot more attractive as a travel nursing destination. But where should you go looking first? We’re going to tell you about the best city for travel nurses in Pennsylvania! There are two things t...
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Nurses sound off about the states which still refuse to join the NLC — but there's good news from Pennsylvania! “Imagine the challenge of driving across state lines if you were required to obtain a [driving] license from every state in which you were going to drive.” It wouldn’t make any sense, righ...
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The train keeps on rolling: month after month, year after year, more and more states are joining the Nurse Licensure Compact! Progress seems unstoppable. An impressive roster of NLC laws has been enacted and implemented in recent years. No fewer than 36 states have now fully implemented the Compact....
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The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC) is the easiest way to help American nurses find the jobs they need — and where they are needed most. But getting it implemented in new states can be a frustratingly drawn out and bureaucratic political process. Slowly but steadily, however, progress is bei...
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The Nurse Licensure Compact has been making life for nurses easier since it was first launched in 1999, saving nurses who want to take up a job in another state the hassle of going through the process of obtaining a separate license. It’s a godsend especially for travel nurses, for whom applying for...
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Last month, Louisiana became the 31st state to join the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC). Louisiana is a brand new addition to the compact states as it never joined the original Nurse Licensure Compact. This is great news, as it will make it a lot easier for nurses from other states to take u...
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Big changes are coming to multistate nurse licenses. Here is what you need to know. If you are a travel nurse or have ever relocated to another state for a nursing job, you are probably familiar with the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) system. Latest updates on nursing compact license states: — More S...
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Last month, the New York state legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo approved legislation requiring registered nurses to attain a bachelor’s degree or higher in nursing within ten years of their initial licensure. The legislation exempts registered nurses already licensed in New York as well as stud...
Read more →After some legal skirmishing between the courts and doctors, certified registered nurse anesthetists will not need to be supervised by a physician, according to this article on Nurse.com. This upheld previous rulings to that effect from the lower courts, and also serves to confirm that the former go...
Read more →There has been a 76% increase since 2007 in the number of registered nurses who are in bachelor’s of science degree programs nationwide, according to this article in the Columbus Dispatch, citing numbers from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. In Ohio, the increase is even more dramati...
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