What to do with orignal nursing license in state you moved from?

[jes.a.saur]

I currently have my LPN/LVN license in both Texas and Louisiana. Hopefully I won't need my Texas license any time soon as I plan on staying in Louisana for at least 5 years. Do I need to put my Texas license into inactive or can I keep it up? Is it hard to reactivate it if you did need it again? Not sure what I should do? Any thoughts? I have terrible fingerprints so if I have to keep from redoing my fingerprints that would be great!

[caliotter3]

Unless, you plan on never returning to TX, I would keep it in an inactive status. If you never want to return, just let it lapse. Some people have licenses from all over, expensive to keep up, but if you think you might ever return, worth the investment to keep them inactive. Of course, if licensed in a compact state, follow the rules for maintaining compact licenses.

[chare]

In my experience, as long you maintain an active license somewhere, there is little distinction in either placing a license inactive or letting it expire. The TX BON would be the best source of information regarding this.

As to compact status, your TX license will revert to a single state license when you change your residency. When/if you return to TX and TX residency, your TX LPN license will have multu-state privileges if the LVN/LPN license is included in the compact.