How long a wait for License?

I took the NCLEX on July 8th and had my number issued on the 15th. It took 2 weeks or so to get the card. Do you know how to check online? My NM was OK with looking my number up online, she didn't need to see the card. Of course, this was back in the days when graduate nurses still existed in Colorado.

The website is https://www.doradls.state.co.us/index.php

HTH,
Becki

Could you elaborate a little on what you mean by this? Is there a dearth of graduate nurses in CO? Why?

Semisweetchick

When I graduated from nursing school, I was given a graduate nurse permit from the CO state board of nursing that allowed me to work as a graduate nurse (GN) for (I think) 90 days. During that 90 days, I could take the NCLEX and get my RN license from the state. If I didn't pass or the paperwork didn't go through for some reason, at the end of the 90 days, my manager and I would have had a little talk and I would have been fired or demoted down to a unlicensed tech position (which happened to a few people I knew).

The GN permits were eliminated last year, so now, in order to start a job, new graduate nurses have to have taken the NCLEX and have their RN license. So the OP had much more pressure to get her paperwork through the state than I did, because I was able to work while my paperwork went through and she can't.

I know for a fact that there are plenty of new graduate nurses in CO, but none of them are practicing as "graduate nurses" like I did.

Hope that clarifies things.
Becki

Becki,

That does clarify things. Thanks!