When does my license need to be renewed??

daisy87 · Dec 12, 2008 08:02 AM

In November of this year I had my RN license endorsed to Texas

. It has the date it was issued on it, but I don't see anything about when the license expires. Does anyone know? I was reading the CE booklet they included and it sounded like the expiration date can vary and may have something to do with when your birthday falls...mine is in October.

Baby*Pink · Dec 12, 2008, 09:27 AM

I was very confused by that as well. Why wouldn't they just put the expiration date on there?? So I went to the Texas BON website and went to verify a license and on there it says when the license expires.

*hypocaffeinemia* · Dec 12, 2008, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by daisy87

In November of this year I had my RN license endorsed to Texas. It has the date it was issued on it, but I don't see anything about when the license expires. Does anyone know? I was reading the CE booklet they included and it sounded like the expiration date can vary and may have something to do with when your birthday falls...mine is in October.

If you go to the BON website and look up your license it will say when the renew date is.

**TheCommuter** · Dec 12, 2008, 01:30 PM

Interesting...

My wallet-sized license displays the phrase on the bottom right-hand corner, "Expires on the last day of February 2009."

If you were born in an even-numbered year (1948, 1970, 1984, etc.), your license will expire in even-numbered years (2010, 2012, 2014, and so forth).

If you were born in an odd-numbered year (1955, 1969, 1987, etc.), your license will always expire in odd-numbered years (2009, 2011, 2013, and so on). I was born in February 1981, so my license always needs to be renewed during the odd years.

daisy87 · Dec 12, 2008, 05:35 PM

I went to the verify a license online thing and it worked! Thank you! The odd/even year tip is good too, just every other year on your birthday month it seems. I didn't get a wallet size license, only a full size one.

nurselsteele · Dec 12, 2008, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by daisy87

In November of this year I had my RN license endorsed to Texas. It has the date it was issued on it, but I don't see anything about when the license expires. Does anyone know? I was reading the CE booklet they included and it sounded like the expiration date can vary and may have something to do with when your birthday falls...mine is in October.

check on the nursing boards website for the state you are practicing in, I don't think the renewal changes just the endorsement changes... the website will tell you,!

Baby*Pink · Dec 12, 2008, 07:41 PM

They stopped doing wallet sized licenses recently. They only send you the big one now- and I guess they only send you 1 even when you renew it which is maybe why there's no expiration date actually on the license?

nurselsteele · Dec 12, 2008, 09:16 PM

I would go to the state board of nursing for the state in which you actually obtained your license, did you put in a change of address? if so they will mail you the renewal form to that address, it shouldnt differ from the original date of renewal, but you might want to check..

daisy87 · Dec 13, 2008, 09:24 AM

I emailed the Texas board of nursing and they gave me the same date to renew that the online verify a license thing gave me. Basically my birthday is in Oct and I was born on a odd year, so I have to renew by Oct 31 on each odd year (2009, 2011, 2013...).

Baby*Pink · Dec 13, 2008, 09:45 AM

That's very helpful because my birthday is in Oct. and I was born in an odd year as well. Now it makes sense why it expires in less than a year!

When does my license need to be renewed??

When does my license need to be renewed??

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