How long a wait for License?

beckinben, CNM · Feb 22, 2006

Just moved to Ft. Collins and I took my NCLEX Feb. 8th. I passed. State Board has yet to post my RN license number. I am scheduled to start work at PVH the 27th but will lose my spot if my number is not posted! Also, am buying a house and its contigent upon my having a job. eeek! I am stressing. How long is a normal amount of time to wait??
Thanks in advance!

I took the NCLEX on July 8th and had my number issued on the 15th. It took 2 weeks or so to get the card. Do you know how to check online? My NM was OK with looking my number up online, she didn't need to see the card. Of course, this was back in the days when graduate nurses still existed in Colorado.

The website is https://www.doradls.state.co.us/index.php

HTH,

Becki

MCR_RN · Feb 22, 2006

Thank you. I have been checking that site daily. The testing site (pearson/vue) shows I passed. I will ask my new mgr. if she will accept the testing website results. I suppose if I took the exam on the 8th and got my results on the 10th that without counting weekends and holiday, it has only been 6 days?

MCR_RN · Feb 24, 2006

Yea! Its posted! Now I can start working and get that house.

Columnist · Mar 1, 2006

Of course, this was back in the days when graduate nurses still existed in Colorado.

Could you elaborate a little on what you mean by this? Is there a dearth of graduate nurses in CO? Why?

Semisweetchick

beckinben, CNM · Mar 2, 2006

Could you elaborate a little on what you mean by this? Is there a dearth of graduate nurses in CO? Why?
Semisweetchick

When I graduated from nursing school, I was given a graduate nurse permit from the CO state board of nursing that allowed me to work as a graduate nurse (GN) for (I think) 90 days. During that 90 days, I could take the NCLEX and get my RN license from the state. If I didn't pass or the paperwork didn't go through for some reason, at the end of the 90 days, my manager and I would have had a little talk and I would have been fired or demoted down to a unlicensed tech position (which happened to a few people I knew).

The GN permits were eliminated last year, so now, in order to start a job, new graduate nurses have to have taken the NCLEX and have their RN license. So the OP had much more pressure to get her paperwork through the state than I did, because I was able to work while my paperwork went through and she can't.

I know for a fact that there are plenty of new graduate nurses in CO, but none of them are practicing as "graduate nurses" like I did.

Hope that clarifies things.

Becki

Columnist · Mar 3, 2006

Becki,

That does clarify things. Thanks!