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Yes, you could take a job in either state. It doesn't really matter which state you have the license in, as long as you have a license in the state you are working in. You can hold licenses in different states if you want. Some jobs if they are in a town on the border of states sometimes want you to have a license in both neighboring states. It's always good to keep a license in the state where your family is, that way, if something happens and you have to return, you can move near them very easily and get a job without having to wait for the state to take their time to do the endorsement, although most are pretty fast now.

Good luck, I went from Broadcast Journalism to Nursing and have loved it. Don't be discouraged when you get done if you take a job and it does not seem like it is correct for you. Do not think twice about it, Do not think it is just nursing in general, there are many different areas of nursing you can work in, and not just in the hospital. You can always find the right fit for you in nursing.

This is very common, I just had to have this done for a PRN position I was going to take.

Vermont is also a very nice state, look at http://www.indeed.com and type in RN and the city you want to live in or even just the state and it will bring up tons of jobs in those areas.

I just recently endorsed my license from Pennsylvania to Illinois, and once I got all the information to them in a packet according to what they said on their website, it was done in about 2 weeks. Since you have the license in Vermont you could probably do the same thing. I think if you are a foreign nurse they just require you have taken some TOEFL test or something like that, it states it on their board of nursing website. I was also previously endorsed to West Virgina and Ohio for my job. West Virginia was fairly fast, Ohio was slow. Hope the information helps.

Illinois seems to be very quick if you have all of your information in order.

Always apply they can only say no, and then you go to the next. There are many paths that lead to where you want to go, if one path is blocked take another to get around the block in that path, and you will eventually end up in the place where you wanted to be.