UPDATE: July 22, 2019 On Friday, July 19, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill approving state’s participation in the multi-state Nurse Licensure Compact, becoming the 34th state to join the eNLC. The implementation date is still to be determined. The New Jersey State Nurses Association voiced their support for joining the compact […]
UPDATE, May 14, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. CDT Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the nursing compact license bill into law last week, according to a Facebook post from the Alabama Board of Nursing. The board expects to fully implement eNLC processes and issue compact nursing licenses by January 2020. Healthcare Traveler Today will update this […]
Vermont’s Office of Professional Regulation released a new report that found the state could see many benefits from joining the Nursing Licensure Compact, but also noted the change would have a large financial impact. Sen. Virginia Lyons introduced a nursing compact licensure bill on February 22 which would allow for Vermont to join the NLC. […]
Alabama legislators introduced two bills Tuesday that could allow the state to join the nationwide Nursing Licensure Compact, according to data from Legiscan. House Rep. April Weaver and Sen. Gregg Reed pre-filed and introduced House Bill 44 and Senate Bill 38, respectively, during the first special session of 2019. Both bills were referred to House and Senate […]
A New Jersey compact nurse license bill is one step closer to becoming law after state Senate members passed it last Thursday. The bill passed unanimously, 35-0, with five senators abstaining. The bill would allow New Jersey to join the Nursing Licensure Compact. If approved, New Jersey would be the 32nd state to join the […]
Exactly a year and one month ago, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) enacted the enhanced Nursing Licensure Compact—referred to as the NLC—with the goal of streamlining the compact license requirements and adding an extra layer of security by requiring federal background checks for all applicants. A total of 31 states have joined […]
By Stephen Stockhausen, PT, DPT, OCS, Contributing Writer, Founder of PT Adventures Having the freedom to take different jobs in various parts of the country is by far the best, and the most obvious, perk of being a travel physical therapist. But it comes at a cost of the occasionally arduous task of obtaining a new […]
After we posted our story about how new enhanced Nursing Licensure Compact states are handling the transition process, we got some specific questions from readers about the topic. We are still working to answer some of those, but we did want to answer what we could. Q: “I was told some Florida hospitals are still […]
After we posted our story about how new enhanced Nursing Licensure Compact states are handling the transition process, we got some specific questions from readers about the topic. Last week, we answered the first one about whether some Florida hospitals are still requiring single state licenses despite being a eNLC state, and today we’ve got […]
The Kansas legislature has moved quickly on HB 2496 in the past two weeks, meaning Kansas could join the 29 other states in the enhanced Nursing Licensure Compact as early as next year. The bill was introduced to the House on Jan. 17 and promptly moved to the Committee on Health and Human Services the […]
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