Nursing license expired

Nrdsb4
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:06:26 +0000

I don’t believe many entities would hire a person in any nursing capacity whatsoever, even if s(he) were not giving direct patient care, without an active license. I could be wrong, of course. I know a woman who is involved in education and research, and her employer recently required her to reactivate her license.

In Texas, if you have not worked in nursing for four years or longer, even if you have kept your license current but inactive, you are required to take a nurse refresher course and put in 80 hours of clinical practice under the auspices of a current RN in order to reactivate your license. If your license has completely lapsed, you are required to get an additional 20 hours of continuing education, including getting re-certified for CPR for health care practitioners. I’m sure all states differ, so the first contact I’d make would be to contact your state board of nursing.