Nurses in Pennsylvania will soon be able to practice in both their home state and some other states through a new licensure ...

Amy Milson estimates she lost up to $15,600 in income while waiting for the Pennsylvania Board of Nursing to approve her license. Milson, a nurse of 32 years, moved with her husband from Missouri ...

Some physician and nursing groups are challenging efforts to enact a multistate licensing compact for advanced practice registered nurses. The compact would enable APRNs with more than 2,080 hours ...

Nurse Licensure Compacts (NLCs) may be “one tool in the toolbox” to help ease chronic nursing shortages reaching into every state and practically every health facility, says Nicole Livanos ...

Nurses who have a compact license are 11% more likely to move and work in other participating states, according to a 2022 peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Labor Research.

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) ... The only active nursing compact in the U.S. is the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), which includes 41 member states.

Pennsylvania nurses must wait, however, to practice in NLC regions until certain preconditions are met, one of which is certifying to other compact states that Pennsylvania's State Board of ...

Similar legislation is pending in 10 state legislatures, said Nicole Livanos with the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. The compact is modeled after driver’s licenses, which are based ...

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NLCs are 'one tool in the toolbox' for broader workforce discussions, NCSBN official says. Nurse Licensure Compacts (NLCs) may be “one tool in the toolbox” to help ease chronic nursing shortages ...