License Renewal?!

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Hi. I just received that news that I passed the NCLEX this morning by checking my states Board of Nursing website and my license was issued 07/29/10. My license expires 10/31/2010.

I called the Board and the receptionist informed me that because my birthday is in October I do not get 2 years to renew my license and if I had taken then exam AFTER my birthday I would have. This also happened to a classmate of mine who's birthday is in October. Another classmates birthday is in August but her license does not expire until 2012. I am having a hard time understand how this works. I already paid $200 to register in addition to the $75 board application fee and now I have to turn around and pay another $78 for a license I haven't even used yet!!!

Can someone PLEASE enlighten me?!******-off.pngdollarsign.pngpiggy_bank.png

Just be thankful to GOD that you have your license because so many of us are waiting to get our license or have failed NCLEX. If my ONLY concern was paying $78 for a renewal......I would be HAPPY! Congratulations on passing, now go on and be that wonderful and "caring" nurse.....

Thank you and I am extremely grateful that I passed I just don't understand how the renewal works and would like some clarification. Good luck to you!

Specializes in NICU.

Did the person with the August birthday just pass NCLEX this month? The licensing board might have a clause for granting the license without the need for a renewal that year if the birthday is within a certain number of days.

Specializes in NeuroICU/SICU/MICU.

It sounds like your state bases renewal dates on date of birth, rather than when you took the exam or other factors. I would call your state board for clarification. It's a bummer, but it sounds like you just got unlucky with your birthday :(

My state also renews based on your birthday. Last year I passed NCLEX in July, didn't get my license in my hands until September, and then had to pay the fee again in November (my bday month)! Two license fees within 6 months of graduating with my nursing degree. And my state does YEARLY renewals, so I will be forking out a third payment this November after only being a RN for 1.5 years. Yes, it does suck...

I think that most, if not all, states use each nurse's birthday for renewal. You take the NCLEX and get licensed whenever it is that you graduate (and choose to take the exam), and your initial licensure is for an individual, weird amount of time based on when your birthday is, in order to get you "fitted in to" the state's standard cycle for renewals.

I can beat your experience :) -- when I moved to CT a number of years ago, I applied for licensure by endorsement. They took months to finally issue me a license, much longer than I expected, and I finally got a license in August. Weeeeellllll, my birthday is in September and, lo and behold, the license I finally got in August was only good through the end of that September -- the following month! I had to immediately turn around and pay to renew. (If I'd known how things would turn out, I would have told them to just keep the blasted license until September!)

Specializes in Med/Surg.

MI does everyone in March...so I guess everywhere else does by birthdays except us ha.

NJ renews everyone the end of May. And its every 2 years. So people go one year, others go the following year.

Do you have to do all your continuing education hours in those couple of months?

Do you have to do all your continuing education hours in those couple of months?

In my experience with several states (certainly not all states), you aren't required to have CE hours for your first renewal -- I guess you get "credit" for being fresh out of school, plus, as we've discussed, everyone has different lengths of time that the initial license is good, so it would be hard to require everyone to complete the same amount of hours when some people would have a full year to do so and others, only a few months or even less.

Specializes in Pediatric Cardiology.

In Massachusetts, LPNs renew on their birthdays of ODD years and RNs renew on their birthdays of EVEN years. The only exception is if you received your license a certain number days (not sure the exact number) before your birthday. Example: I got my license June 28 and my birthday is July 23 and I did not need to renew this year.

Specializes in ICU.

I'm in California, and I received my license on July 13, 2010. It doesn't expire until June 30, 2012.

Not sure how they picked that date - I had a friend that got her NCLEX results back sooner and was licensed June 28 (even though we took the boards the same week), and hers expires February 29, 2012. Another friend got licensed July 2nd, and hers expires September 30, 2011.

Hmm.... paying attention to our birthdays, looks like here your license expires the last day of the month after your birthday. (mine's in May)

Weird.

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