Tennessee RN Requirements

All 50 states practice reciprocity; that is, if you are licensed as an RN in one state you can automatically get a license in another state (assuming you have a clean criminal and disciplinary record ...) Your aunt just needs to contact the TN Board of Nursing and request an application. There will be a fee for the license (of course! ), which is determined by each state board and varies widely from state to state. The amount of time it takes to issue the license also varies greatly. Many states issue you a temporary permit right away which enables you to start working while they finish the background checks and issue the real license.

Hello everyone! My aunt is planning a move to Tennessee from Ohio and I am trying to find out the requirements for an RN in Tennessee. She was wondering how she could go about transferring and if the requirements are the same. I would love some help! Thank you so much!

If your aunt is an RN, she should be able to figure this out. I don't mean to sound rude, but she shold know this.

All states do not practice reciprocity. There is an something called the "Nurse Licensure Compact". States that are members are Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, N.Dakota, S.Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin. Those that are pending are IN, NJ, VA.
For info go to: http://www.ncsbn.org/nlc/rnlpvncompact.asp

If your aunt is an RN, she should be able to figure this out. I don't mean to sound rude, but she shold know this.

All states do practice reciprocity, and the Nurse Licensure Compact is entirely separate from that. The NLC is a program in which nurses licensed in a Compact state can practice in another Compact state without getting a separate, additional license from the other state. You are still only licensed in your original state. It is a relatively new program and, as you note, does not include all states (although it does include more states than you listed).

Any of the 50 states will issue you a license yo practice nursing in that state if you have a current license in good standing in another state and a clean disciplinary record, and pay whatever fee they require (this is what is usually meant by the term "reciprocity" in nursing).


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ITA, and yet, if you do a search on this site, you will find that people keep asking this same question over, and over, and over, and over, and ....)

That's not true. Ask any traveling nurse.
As a former travel nurse, depending on the state, there is a LOT more to gaining licensure in another state than having an RN license in one state, paying the fee, and having a clean criminal background.
If that were true, there would never have been a nurse licensure compact. It was designed to cut the red tape of "your RN program doesn't meet the state requirements of our RN program."

Then I have been misinformed and I apologize. I have not worked as a traveling nurse, but I have lived in a few different states over the years, and each time the process of getting the new license was as I described; no additional requirements. I guess I was just lucky in my choice of states!

All states do practice reciprocity, and the Nurse Licensure Compact is entirely separate from that. The NLC is a program in which nurses licensed in a Compact state can practice in another Compact state without getting a separate, additional license from the other state. You are still only licensed in your original state. It is a relatively new program and, as you note, does not include all states (although it does include more states than you listed).

Any of the 50 states will issue you a license yo practice nursing in that state if you have a current license in good standing in another state and a clean disciplinary record, and pay whatever fee they require (this is what is usually meant by the term "reciprocity" in nursing).


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ITA, and yet, if you do a search on this site, you will find that people keep asking this same question over, and over, and over, and over, and ....)