license transfer

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I am planning on moving to ohio soon. I know i can transfer my license for a fee but, someone told me that is only for a temp. license and that I'd have to retake my state exam to actually get my license. Does anyone know if this is true or not? :banghead:

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I assume you're talking about moving to OH from another US state, right? As long as you're licensed in any other US state, you don't transfer your license, but apply for licensure in the new state by "endorsement." (You get a new OH license, and will still have your old license (you can choose whether to renew it or just let it lapse when it is getting ready to expire)).

Check the OH BON website (accessible from this site -- click on the grey "Resources" tab in the upper right corner of the screen and you'll see a button for "Boards of Nursing." You'll find links there to all the US BONs). They probably have all the information/instructions and forms right on the website for applying for licensure "by endorsement" (which is what you want, not licensure "by examination").

You do not have to re-take the NCLEX -- that is one-time-only!

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Specializes in NICU.

The only way you would have to retake a licensing exam is if for some reason you took something other than NCLEX. I know when I was applying for my IN license there were questions verifying that I didn't just take a specifically state-developed test. I didn't know there was such a thing but just in case...

Good luck :-)

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The only way you would have to retake a licensing exam is if for some reason you took something other than NCLEX. I know when I was applying for my IN license there were questions verifying that I didn't just take a specifically state-developed test. I didn't know there was such a thing but just in case...

Good luck :-)

For many, many decades in the US, each state wrote and administered its own licensure exam, and when you moved from one state to another, you often had to pass the new state's exam in order to get licensed. Some of the state exams were much harder than others -- it was entirely up to each individual state. The standardized NCLEX exam was a huge change (and improvement, for us!). I don't know exactly when the change occurred, but I know that when I was in nursing school in the early '80s, the faculty were talking about the NCLEX like the change hadn't happened all that long ago (of course, that may not mean much -- I know that I now talk about stuff that happened long ago like it happened last week, so ... :chuckle) I believe that the various states switched over to the NCLEX at different times (as is happening now with the Nursing Licensure Compact), so perhaps that's why IN wanted to verify whether or not it was the NCLEX you had taken.

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Specializes in NICU.

Thanks I hadn't thought of it that way. I knew there were state tests prior to NCLEX, but was thinking that there still were areas that offered that option... :imbar or actually I should say I wasn't thinking :-)

Too many hours worked= sponge head apparently...

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Too many hours worked= sponge head apparently...

I know the feeling!! :chuckle :chuckle :chuckle

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Specializes in NICU.

The sisterhood of sponge heads... :p

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