Telephonic Nursing Calling across state lines

[MrsLilRat]

Hello everyone,

My co-workers and I have just started this really great new job as Telephonic Nurse Consultant. We have been told by our company that we do not need additional nurse licensure in states outside of our current state. Our problem is that we have found documentation from specific boards of nursings i.e. California, Nevada, New York, etc that state we do need licensure in their states. The state of New Hampshire says we do not have to have licensure in their state but we must disclose to our clients residing in their state what state our licensure is in. We have pass this information on to our compliance officer, but in the meantime, what do you think we should about making calls in the states that we know we should obtain a licensure in?

I am really too young to lose my career over this...my family depends on this great schedule and pay.

[telemedRN]

I am licensed in CA and triage in OK so I HAVE to have a license there because it's a separate contract. If my HMO pt's call from other areas or even overseas I'm covered by my employer. At one time I was licensed in Texas, Oregon and Wash. Licenses in other states are not hard to get but are expensive and require diff types of CEU's. Your employer should have this info. Mine pays for extra required licenses. Hope this helps:nurse:

[eltrip]

Are separate licenses required for fellow nursing compact states? My understanding is that it's not. I'm in a border town & wind up triaging into a non-compact state, so we need to have licenses for that state but not for compact states.

[Noryn]

When I was in telephone triage, the only other state I had to be licensed in was California. That was about 7 years ago though.

[MrsLilRat]

Thanks for the replies everyone. My compact license covers the states that are in the compact. The other states I am learning that, we will have to obtain licensure in those states. My current employer is talking with the individual boards of nursing on our behalf, to figure out what they are going to do as a company as well.