Where Are You Licensed?

[Katillac, RN]

If you work from home or in a call center and handle calls from more than one state, where do you have to be licensed? Are you considered to be practicing where you are or where your patient/callers are?

Thanks.

[petty,s.t.]

Good question. I work for the VA so we are to be licensed in the United States, they are not much interested in which state. One job I had to be licensed in my home state and the state that I was receiving calls from (Georgia and South Carolina). So I guess, it would depend on what the rules and regulations are for the company that you are working for.

[Vtachy1]

If you work from home or in a call center and handle calls from more than one state, where do you have to be licensed? Are you considered to be practicing where you are or where your patient/callers are?

Thanks.

Technically, you legally have to be licensed in the state that your patient is calling in. I have a lot of patients that have me on speed dial, call me from where ever on vacation, and technically I cannot triage unless that state that they are in recognizes my IL and MO license.