Compact law

Editorial Team / Admin · Oct 29, 2018

New York is not an eNLC state and therefore a NY license is only good to use in NY.

In order to obtain a compact license, your legal residence must be in a compact state. Should you move to another compact state, the license needs to be endorsed to the new state. If you live in a non-compact state and hold a license in a compact state, that license is a single state license.

Editorial Team / Admin · Oct 29, 2018

More info on compact licensure.

Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) | NCSBN

Swilsonuav · Oct 29, 2018

Ok I live in Florida but I'm registering thru York for lpn bc it's much more easier of a process for me at this point. I graduated from a nursing school in califonia I'm 2011 took boards once and didn't pass. My question is if I submit to New York can I endorse to be licsenced in Florida thru compact law? FL bin says I have to be working in another state for a minimum of at least 2 years please someone answer

**CalicoKitty, BSN, MSN, RN** · Oct 29, 2018

You cannot get an endorsed license until you have a license. You don't have a license if you did not pass your boards. So, first you need to pass your boards (I'm not sure what that process is 7 years after graduation).

Swilsonuav · Oct 29, 2018

Thanks

JustBeachyNurse, LPN · Oct 29, 2018

No NY is not a compact state. Even if it were if you are not a legal permanent resident of NY therefore if your home state is a NCL state you are not eligible to apply for a license in another compact state.

JustBeachyNurse, LPN · Oct 29, 2018

NY is not a compact state.

If you are a resident of a compact state you can only apply for licensing in your home state. You cannot apply in another compact state and "endorse back".

Trauma Columnist · Oct 30, 2018

Merged threads

chare · Oct 30, 2018

If it is your intent to practice in FL, and not NY, then you should apply for initial licensure in FL, as opposed to NY. While it is possible to endorse an active NY license to FL, you're still going to have to meet all of the FL BON eligibility requirements. If you haven't yet done so, you should contact the FL BON.

Best wishes.

elkpark · Oct 30, 2018

NY is not a compact state.
If you are a resident of a compact state you can only apply for licensing in your home state. You cannot apply in another compact state and "endorse back".

Not that I'm encouraging the OP to do this, but the NLC rule about applying to other compact states doesn't apply to non-compact states. The OP is certainly able to apply for licensure in NY, a non-compact state, while living in FL. She just can't apply for licensure in another compact state.

OP, if the BON says you have to work outside FL before you can apply for licensure by endorsement, that's what you have to do. I'm always puzzled when people come here and say they are going to (or were advised by someone else to) apply for licensure in a different state than where they live and want to work because it's supposedly "easier." It doesn't matter how much "easier" it is to apply to another state if that license is not going to enable you to do what you want to do (work in FL). You're already found out that, if you apply for licensure in NY because it's "easier," you will then have to work outside of FL for two years before you can apply for FL licensure by endorsement. How on earth is that "easier" than just applying for FL licensure in the first place? And what's the point of spending time and money on getting a license you don't want?

Most states require that, if you're applying for licensure by endorsement, you still have to meet their requirements for initial licensure. So, by spending the time and money to apply for licensure in an "easier" state with the intent to then apply for endorsement in the state you actually want, you're just delaying the inevitable. Just apply for the FL license in the first place, meet the FL requirements, whatever they are, and get this over with.

Best wishes!

kbrn2002, ADN, RN · Oct 30, 2018

Licensing by endorsement generally requires an active working license in another state plus meeting all the requirements of the BON for the state you are trying to endorse to. This is not at all the same as having a license in a compact state and working in another compact state. Holding a multi-state license requires that you are a resident of the primary state you are applying to and even then you would not necessarily be eligible for a multi-state license.

NY isn't a compact state so the option of working somewhere else under a multi-state license from there wouldn't work for you regardless. Frankly if there is a reason why you can't or won't apply for initial licensing in your home state just getting a license in another state wouldn't work anyway as you'd still have to meet all the requirements for licensing in your home state before they will issue a license through endorsement. Whatever the reason you can't just test for your state, that reason isn't just going to magically go away if you get a license in a different state.