Asking for an upgrade

WSNA has long opposed the Nurse Licensure Compact for a variety of reasons — and in 2019, WSNA representatives spent nearly 20 hours meeting with the members of the Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission (NCQAC) to discuss those concerns. In the end, many of our key concerns remained.

While WSNA opposed a 2020 bill to enter Washington state into the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), we committed to working with other states to ask the NLC administrators to make changes at the national level that would address our concerns, which are shared by many states that are, like Washington state, leaders in health care.

What follows here is:

• A letter to the NLC administrators (through the National Council of State Boards of Nursing) signed by 11 states outlining our concerns with the NLC and asking for changes
• A series of myths vs. facts about the NLC
• A look at the 10 best and worst health care states and whether they participate in the NLC

This is a letter to the NLC administrators (through the National Council of State Boards of Nursing) signed by 11 state nurses associations outlining our concerns with the NLC and asking for changes.