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Licensure verification is available on this website by clicking on the Verify an RN or LPN License button on the home page of the website. If the nurse is an advanced practice registered nurse, verification is available on this website by clicking on the Verify and APRN License button on the home page of the website. The Minnesota Board of. The Board of Nursing. The Board's purpose is to safeguard the public's health by ensuring that licensed nurses are qualified and competent to practice. The web site supports the Board's purpose by providing information concerning the Board's functions. Pennsylvania Licensing System.
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Licensure General Information; Apply for an APRN License, Renewal, Reregistration, Reauthorization, and Forms. Continued Authority To Practice; Forms; Initial Licensure; Renewal; Reregistration; APRN Advisory Council; How To Obtain Verification of Your Minnesota APRN License to Another State.
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Advisory Group Appointments for 2020
The Ohio Board of Nursing will appoint members to the 2020 Advisory Groups during the November 2019 Board meeting. If you are interested, please complete the application on the website and return it to the Board office by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1, 2019.
Click Here for More Information about Advisory Groups
Click Here to Download the Advisory Group Application
Click Here for Board Policy regarding Advisory Groups
RNs and APRNs: YOU MUST RENEW NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 31, 2019 TO CONTINUE TO PRACTICE
203,527 licenses have been renewed – RNs and APRNs should not delay renewing!If RNs and APRNs do not renew by October 31, 2019, your license will lapse, and you cannot work as nurses if your license has lapsed.
RNs and APRNs are encouraged to check the expiration date of your license at https://elicense.ohio.gov/oh_verifylicense. If it shows an expiration date of 10/31/19 it means you have not started to renew; you have not completed the renewal process; or you have not placed your license on inactive status.
To renew go to https://elicense.ohio.gov.
If RNs and APRNs do not intend to work as a nurse and do not want to renew, please place your license on “inactive” status. Click Here and select 'License Inactivation' above.
For assistance, call 614-466-3947 and select “option 1” Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm and check the Board website at www.nursing.ohio.gov for extended hours in late October. After hours, email nursing.registration@das.ohio.gov and include a brief description of the issue, first name, last name, telephone number, email address, and license number if you have it.
If additional Information is needed, please refer to the Board website at www.nursing.ohio.gov or contact the Board at renewal@nursing.ohio.gov.
September 4, 2019
Proposed Rule Revisions -- Request For Comments
Ohio Revised Code Sections 107.62 and 121.82 require state agencies, including the Ohio Board of Nursing, to draft rules in collaboration with stakeholders, assess and justify any adverse impact on the business community, and provide opportunity for those persons affected by the rules to provide input.
At this time, the Board welcomes further comment on the following rules that have been forwarded to Ohio’s Common Sense Initiative Office (CSI) for review: The Board proposes to amend, or file no changes to rules, following the five-year rule review for Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) Chapters:
- Chapters 4723-2, Licensing for Active Duty Military and Veterans
- Chapter 4723-16, Hearings
- Chapter 4723-17, Intravenous Therapy Courses for Licensed Practical Nurses
- Chapter 4723-25, Nurse Education Grant Program
- Chapter 4723-26, Community Health Workers.
The Board further proposes to otherwise amend individual rules: 4723-1-03, 4723-5-04, 4723-5-10, 4723-5-11, 4723-5-21, 4723-6-01, 4723-6-02, 4723-6-03, 4723-7-05, 4723-7-06, 4723-8-08, 4723-9-10, 4723-9-13, 4723-20-01, 4723-20-03, 4723-20-07.
Below, please find links to the rules submitted to CSI, along with the completed CSI Business Impact Analysis filings for the rules.
If you wish to provide written comment to the Board on any of the proposed rules, please send your comments to the attention of the Ohio Board of Nursing at: rules@nursing.ohio.gov and also copy CSI on your e-mail at: csipubliccomments@governor.ohio.gov. Please send your comments by September 18, 2019.
If you have questions, please contact the Board’s Chief Legal Counsel Holly Fischer at: rules@nursing.ohio.gov or hfischer@nursing.ohio.gov.
Five Year Review Rules Package
Five Year Review Rules Package Business Impact Analysis
Technical Change Rules Package
Technical Change Rules Package Business Impact Analysis
RNs and APRNs: RENEW NOW
203,527 RN and APRN licenses have been renewed! Thank you!Click here for renewal information.
Continuing Education FAQs-RN, LPNs, DTs, CHW, and Medication Aides
Continuing Education FAQs-APRNs
Check The Status of Your License Application
To check the status of a license application you submitted, log onto your Dashboard, click “Options” and then “Review Status.” If you need assistance accessing your Dashboard, please contact the Ohio eLicense Customer Service Help Desk at (614) 466-3947 Option #1 Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm. For other questions, please click on the following link click here, and email the appropriate Board program.
Take Charge Ohio - Safe Pain Medication & Pain Management Practices
Take Charge Ohio is an initiative to help use pain medication safely to minimize the risk of drug misuse, dependency and addiction by offering prescribers and healthcare professionals resources and tools to educate patients on safe medication and pain management practices. Click on http://www.takechargeohio.org/
RNs and APRNs: RENEW NOW
Click here for renewal information.
Continuing Education FAQs-RN, LPNs, DTs, CHW, and Medication Aides
Continuing Education FAQs-APRNs
Media Inquiries
For media inquiries, please call (614) 466-3947; or (614) 466-6940. You may also send an email toBoard@nursing.ohio.gov.
State of Ohio eLicense System Transaction Fee
When passing the state’s budget bill on June 30, 2017, the Ohio legislature authorized by law a $3.50 transaction charge for all users of the state’s Ohio eLicense system. It was a state initiative passed as part of the budget bill. The Ohio eLicense system is an enterprise system managed by the state for 19 boards and commissions. All professionals of the boards and commissions who use the Ohio eLicense are being charged the fee.
Beginning Thursday, July 20, 2017, after 6:00 pm, an Ohio eLicense transaction fee of $3.50 will be added to your online cart at the time of checkout when you apply for a license/certificate or renew.
Since APRN licensure is separate from the RN license by law, APRNs will be charged a $3.50 transaction fee for each license (RN and APRN).
Nursing licensure fees have not been increased since 2004. The Ohio eLicense system allows the state to process professional license applications saving time and money.
We appreciate your understanding of the costs associated with the state being able to maintain a secure Ohio eLicense system for license information.
FOR ALL LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING NEW GRADUATES
- All license and certificate applications must be submitted online. CLICK here for more information.
- We recommend using Google Chrome.
- Graduates must use the correct Nursing School Code. CLICK here to find your correct school code.
- You must register to create a new user account when you apply for a license or certificate for the first time.
- If you never applied for a license or certificate in Ohio for nursing or with any other board, CLICK “I Don’t Have a License” to create a new user account.
- If you have applied previously or currently hold a license in Ohio with nursing or any other board, CLICK “I Have a License” when creating a new user account. You will also need your Security Code. See below for instructions to obtain your Security Code.
- If you never applied for a license or certificate in Ohio for nursing or with any other board, CLICK “I Don’t Have a License” to create a new user account.
- INSTRUCTIONS
Click Here for INSTRUCTIONS to Create a New Account & Obtaining your Security Code
Download and review the instructions before starting. Obtaining you Security Code this way will only work if you have previously applied for, or already have a license or certificate with the Board and have acces to the same email address you used previously with us.
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RN/LPN REACTIVATION AND REINSTATEMENT
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Placing Your License or Certificate on Inactive Status
If you do not intend to practice or work in Ohio, you may request your license or certificate be placed on inactive status by submitting an inactivation request to the Board. This applies to RNs, LPNs, APRNs, dialysis technicians, community health workers, or medication aides.
If your license or certificate is inactive, remember that you do not hold a current, valid license or certificate and you cannot work as a RN, LPN, APRN, dialysis technician, community health worker, or medication aide as long as the license or certificate is inactive.
If you are an APRN and you inactivate the RN license, your APRN license will automatically be inactivated at the time you inactivate the RN license.
Submit a service request, as follows, through Ohio eLicense and it will automatically be processed:
- Go to eLicense.ohio.gov
- Log into your account
- Scroll to the panel displaying your license type and number
- Click the “Options” link on the appropriate license panel
- Click the “Special Request” link
- Select “License Inactivation” from the drop-down box
- Complete the information and click “Submit” and it will be inactivated automatically
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For other questions, email licensure@nursing.ohio.gov and include a brief description of the issue, your first and last names, telephone number, email address, and license number, if you have it.
For other questions, email licensure@nursing.ohio.gov and include a brief description of the issue, your first and last names, telephone number, email address, and license number, if you have it.. |
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Verify Ohio Licenses and Certificates
The Joint Commission and the NCQA consider on-line status information as fulfilling the primary source requirement for verification of licensure in compliance with their respective credentialing standards. Employers, please remind your nursing staff to update their mailing address with the board when you receive an employee address update.
Complaint Forms
Send complaints to: complaints@nursing.ohio.gov, fax to (614) 995-3685, or mail forms to:
Ohio Board of Nursing
17 South High Street
Suite 660
Columbus OH 43215
ATTN: Complaints.
Guide to the Board's Complaint and Investigation Process
Complaint Form(for Email Submission)
(PDF) Version(for FAX or Postal Submission)
Supplemental Information Form for Employers(for Email Submission)
(PDF) Version(for FAX or Postal Submission)