Got my license renewed.

Agent T · Jan 21, 2011

Hard work pays off, congrats! :)

Way to look out for others, also.

Laura Barnes,BSN,RN · May 12, 2011

How does one get on the inactive list if not sure when one will again practice nursing? I do want to be sure I can again get licensed.

Biffbradford · May 12, 2011

I don't think there is an inactive list. You can always renew and not practice. I believe, that here in Wisconsin, you have 18 months to renew before you need to retake the state board exam again. That would suck! As an update, I got hired in chronic dialysis, but it just wasn't for me. The training was good, the work wasn't difficult at all, and I suppose that I could have endured it, but it seemed to me that the company was having too many business struggles (not financial) and I didn't want to get pulled into all that. Too many red flags were being thrown up, and I had a gut feeling that it wasn't going to go well. I could go back into the hospital arena, but my heart isn't into that either. My negative memories far out weigh the positives. So, we'll see. Maybe I could help do colonoscopies for 12 hours a day? Oh joy. I drove by Wheaton in Franklin one evening and I swear there were more cars by the restaurant across the road, than there were in the hospital parking lot. That can't be a good sign.

Laura Barnes,BSN,RN · May 12, 2011

Thanks for the advice. I quite working in dialysis in 2007. Have kept up my license just in case I ever want to get involved again in nursing. I did some contract nursing for awhile, but it didn't keep me very busy and of course then not much money. I can't say what I really like about the profession anymore. My love was dialysis, inpt. and outpt., but too many politics involved. The younger generation of nurses is another matter altogether.

I would not want to retake state boards again so I guess I will continue to renew my license whenever it comes due. Hope I can continue doing this without working. Have you any knowledge about not working and still being able to renew every two years?

Biffbradford · May 14, 2011

As far as I know, there aren't any continuing education requirements or anything like that. Give them your money and they renew your license. :cheers:

RN In FL · Apr 21, 2012

As far as I know, there aren't any continuing education requirements or anything like that. Give them your money and they renew your license. :cheers:

Well good going girls. I was paying and renewing too, until I slipped thru the cracks. I took a LOA from the work field in 2004. I let my GA license lapse. I was 1 day late past renewal. Well i figured i would just pay a late fee and keep on trucking. OH NO...., they wanted proof from my "employer"...and because I had not worked in 5 yrs....I now have to take a refresher course, which is 16 wks, and cost like 800.00 :banghead: .... Thats in GA. TO GET THEM BACK. I LIVE IN FL NOW. The kicker is too. I was orginally licensed in FL...which I let those license expire, because I moved to GA....much money to keep them both (sigh). Can you imagine what I am going thru now to get both???? I feel so violated, because I WANT TO WORK AGAIN!!!!!!!

MORAL OF THE STORY. NEVER EVER LET YOUR LICENSE EXPIRE, LAPSE, RELAPSE, DIE, WHATEVER....we worked too hard to get them.