Nurses who live in a state that adopted the original Nurse Licensure Compact—an interstate agreement that allows nurses to practice in multiple states with one license— and that also enacted ...

Modern health care delivery requires nursing care that is dynamic and fluid across state boundaries. The current 100-year-old model of nurse licensure is not flexible or adaptable enough to meet ...

Pennsylvania agreed to join the compact in July 2021, but full implementation has been delayed because the state Board of Nursing has not obtained permission to conduct criminal background checks ...

Passing the Nursing Licensure Compact bill would make it easier for nursing graduates to move off-island, according to Hattori-Uchima. Efforts should also be made to improve retention, she added.

National Council Licensure Exam pass rates for U.S.-educated, first-time test takers have been steadily falling in the past few years, from 88.2 percent in 2019 to 82.5 percent in 2021, then down ...

Bill sponsor Sen. Lisa Boscola, said, “By not being a part of the nurse compact, Pennsylvania has frankly been at a disadvantage. We are a state with over 12.5 million people – and the ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, only 34 states were part of the nursing compact. “It might’ve taken an emergency to realize how critical it is to have a mobile workforce,” Livanos said.

According to authorities, Andre Maureece Angus groped or inappropriately touched the genital area of 3 male patients under ...

Alaska should pursue an “all of the above” solution to get more nurses to work in Alaska, from joining the Nurse Licensure Compact to expanding nursing program graduate capacity in-state.

A proposal for Washington to become the 35th state to join the national nursing compact survived Friday’s deadline in the Senate, although not all key stakeholders are on board. Joining would ...

The Tennessee Board of Nursing can take disciplinary action if they violate the law. Only nurses who have established primary residence within a state that has adopted the compact through ...

I write in strong support for the Nurse Licensure Compact bills currently being considered by the Legislature. I am a registered nurse who has practiced in Alaska for nine years. I used to hold ...