Hoping to ease the nursing shortage, Pennsylvania began allowing nurses who hold a multistate license to begin practicing in the state as of Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Department of State announced ...

Pennsylvania became the 43rd state to join the Nurse Licensure Compact. The law will go into effect July 7, allowing registered nurses and licensed practical and vocational nurses in Pennsylvania to ...

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.

Nurses licensed in a Nurse Licensure Compact-participating state can work in any other participating state. If New York joins, the pool of potential nurses available to be hired by our providers ...

In this editorial, the complex issue of the Nurse Licensure Compact was presented in an overly simplified way. Yes, we are facing a nursing shortage in Alaska and in the rest of the country.

Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Maine are already Nurse Licensure Compact members. Connecticut has enacted but not yet implemented it, meaning Massachusetts was New England’s last holdout.

The Nurse Licensure Compact doesn’t include CNAs. CNAs are required to complete a certification program in Michigan. Nurses and labor unions argue that the administrators are missing the point ...

For three consecutive sessions, efforts to join a licensure compact for nurses have stalled. The holdup may lie in a standoff between unions and industry. As of Jan. 1, 2024, there were more than ...

Massachusetts remains one of just a handful of states that haven’t adopted the Nurse Licensure Compact, which allows nurses licensed in other states to work here without going through a long and ...

Hoping to ease the nursing shortage, Pennsylvania began allowing nurses who hold a multistate license to begin practicing in the state as of Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Department of State announced ...

Nurse Licensure Compact will make it easier for out-of-state nurses to practice in Pennsylvania Terrie Morgan-Besecker, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. Updated Wed, September 6, 2023 at 7:08 PM UTC ...