Texas Board of Nusing

U.S.A. Texas

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Just wondering if anyone has a suggestion that perhaps we can do to "improve channels of communication between the Texas Board and outside world?" What a nightmare! Current license in other states and in process of getting my license via endorsement here. Interviewed and accepted a position in mid-april....my start date was/is set for May 17th. The problem: Could not send in my application, etc until the fingerprint cards arrived from the Board. Reqested this packet in April and as of Monday still was NOT here.

I was to the point of TOTAL FRUSTRATION DUE TO NOT BEING ABLE TO EVER GET THRU TO BOARD VIA THE PHONE NO. THEY LIST. No e-mail links are given to access anybody there....So what's a person to do? I DECIDED TO GO TO THE BOARD...(only 6 hours from here) Was able to get fingerprint cards and in the end handed them in everything with my application. Here's the good part----I told the receptionist I'd like to speak to supervisor or person in charge....He looks at me like --Why....Told him I had some concerns and would just like to speak with supervisor about them. He told me if it was about the Phone system...EVERYBODY ALREADY KNOWS THIS....Ends up the supervisor was in a meeting...So I ask to speak to a person who processed the claims....You'd have thought I ask to move the Capitol! We went back and fourth and He was determined I was not speaking to anyone....and I was determined that i was! Luckily for me a lady (one of the processor's) happened to walk out of her office --- so i was able to speak with her briefly. Personally, do not think i was asking to much to actually speak to someone who worked on the applications after driving a total of 12 hours---and over 700 miles! Oh, I did find out the person who mails the fingerprint packets was out on vacation some last week and was out this week.....It will be interesting to see When or IF that darn packet ever comes.

Now they say it can take up to 10 working days to process and mail out my temporary permit. Wish I felt more optimistic about receiving it sometime in the near future....but nothing would surprise me at this point. What an adventure this is turning out to be!

I still think once you are registered in ANY state you should be allowed to work in ANY stste...afterall, this is the UNITED states, not Germany, France, Spain, USSR, etc!!! :angryfire

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I'M NOT REAL SURE, BUT, I THINK YOU HAVE TO BE LICENSED IN OKLAHOMA BEFORE YOU CAN BE LICENSED IN TEXAS, ITS A PART OF THE REDRIVER AGREEMENT CLAUSE BETWEEN TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA, ITS ALSO TRUE IF YOU WANT TO BE LICENSED IN OKLAHOMA, COMING FROM KANSAS. GOOD LUCK. 'S WITH WOLVES.

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I still think once you are registered in ANY state you should be allowed to work in ANY stste...afterall, this is the UNITED states, not Germany, France, Spain, USSR, etc!!! :angryfire

Yes this is what compact states agreements are trying to accomplish..and they're a good idea. :)

. I just moved from Texas to Washington, original license in MN...but of course none of these states have compact agreements..LOL! So I have to go through the rigmarole again. :rolleyes:

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Mattsmom, even if they were compact states, you would still have to get a new license from Washington because you are now a resident there. That is now your new "home state" because you live there.

I think the compact state policy is really only good for traveling nurses. If you actually MOVE to the state you want to practice in, you have to hold a license from that state. Whatever state you RESIDE in, you have to have a license from that state..."home state" license they call it.

I am moving to TX in three months, but I can't use my Virginia license there (both compact states) because once I become a resident of TX, I have to apply and go through the endorsement process.

So, what is the compact act good for? Really, only if you work in a differerent state temporarily. Because once you move to that state, you have to have a license from that state...hence, the endorsement application has to be done yet again!

Being a military wife, I now have to do my fifth endorsement application when I move to TX in June. I can't work under any of my other four active licenses (compact states or not) because TX will become my "home state" once I move there...so I still have to go through the pain of the process of the endorsement application.

The compact act is good for people who hold a license in the state they reside in and want to work in another compact state they do not have a legal address in. It benefits traveling nurses and nurses who travel across bordering state lines to work. Bottom line, you must hold a license from the state you live in.

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Getting a license in Texas sounds like a nightmare I can well do without. I see openings advertised in mags and on Delphi all of the tie for Texas, but no wonder they can't keep nurses. It sounds like a good state to be from not going to.

BON's may not be a friend to the nurse but there is no acceptabe reason to be rude and unhelpful to someone attempting to go through their licensing process.

Maybe GW can work on this problem when he gets back there. Oh no, then it would be a real mess and have more debt too. :chuckle

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I still think once you are registered in ANY state you should be allowed to work in ANY stste...afterall, this is the UNITED states, not Germany, France, Spain, USSR, etc!!! :angryfire

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Do you have to pay each time you want to be

registered in a different state? If so, it's all

about the money.

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Do you have to pay each time you want to be

registered in a different state? If so, it's all

about the money.

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You are oh so right about the $$$. When I moved to CA I put my NC license on hold. When I requested my CA license I had to pay to re-activate my NC license at full price so they could verify to CA that I was registered. I didn't work there one day after puting my license on inactive status but had to pay them and then CA...what a rip-off but each state got their $$$.

I still think once you are registered in ANY state you should be allowed to work in ANY state...afterall, this is the UNITED states, not Germany, France, Spain, USSR, etc!!! But then they couldn't line their pockets with our $$$ and a lot of cushy jobs held by the boards would be eliminated along with their big $$$.

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