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Information
for Licensure by Endorsement for Registered Professional Nurses
(RN)
Qualifications
The Board of Nursing may issue a license to practice as a
registered professional nurse in Maine if an applicant meets
all of the following qualifications:
- is a graduate
of an educational program of study of not less than 2 years
in an approved program in professional nursing and holds
a degree, diploma or certificate, and
- has been duly
licensed by examination, in English, in another state or
territory of the United States, such examination is acceptable
to the Maine State Board of Nursing, and such license has
not been encumbered, and
- meets qualifications
comparable to those required in Maine at the time of the
applicant's graduation.
Application
Process
The application:
- must be complete
- must be notarized
- must have a
recent passport size (approximately 2 inches by 2 inches)
original photograph (not more than 2 years old), signed
and dated on the back
- must be accompanied
by the required fee of $60.00 made payable to Treasurer
of State of Maine. The FEE is not refundable.
We now accept Visa/MasterCard! (Please
print this page and include it with your application.)
Please provide
the following:
CREDIT CARD
# _______________________________
CREDIT CARD
EXPIRATION: (mm/yy)___/___
YOUR BILLING ADDRESS:
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
SIGNATURE:___________________________________
Click
here for the RN application (pdf document)
Verification form:
- must be sent
to your original state or territory of licensure.
- must be sent
to any country outside of the United States and its territories
where the applicant has been licensed.
- must be accompanied
by any fee required by the state or territory of original
licensure. You may check with your original state of licensure
for this information.
- must be completed
by your original state or territory of licensure and sent
directly to the Maine State Board of Nursing.
Click here for the Maine
verification form (pdf document)
- Exceptions:
If original licensure is in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado,
Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia-PN or Wisconsin.
Click here to print the NURSYS License Verification Request
Form .
Click here to process the NURSYS License Verification Request
Form Online.
A transcript from
the applicant's school of nursing is required if:
- the applicant
has completed the certificate portion of a generic to master's
in nursing program ( a copy of your certificate is also
required).
- the applicant
has completed a licensed practical nurse to registered professional
nurse transition program (both L.P.N. and R.N. transcripts
are required).
- the applicant's
original state of licensure does not provide nursing program
information on the verification form.
- the applicant's
nursing preparation was outside of the United States and
its territories.
Examination:
If you are applying for licensure by endorsement and have
not taken NCLEX, you must apply to the testing vendor
to register to take the examination. The fee is $200.00. Registering
online is the quickest way to register with the testing service.
You may contact Vue Pearson, the current test vendor, at 1-866-496-2539,
Mon-Fri, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. U.S. central time, or go to www.pearsonvue.com/nclex.
Practice Pending
Licensure in Maine
90 day letter
An applicant for licensure by endorsement may practice nursing
in Maine for a period not to exceed 90 days from receipt by
the Maine State Board of Nursing of the application and fee
provided such applicant: a) is currently licensed in another
state or territory, b) possesses the official receipt and
letter from the Maine State Board of Nursing prior to employment,
as stated in the law, and has provided the prospective employer
evidence, in the form of such receipt and letter, that a properly
completed application has been submitted and that the total
endorsement fee has been paid, and c) has provided the employer
evidence of current licensure in another state or territory.
Registered professional
nurse license will be issued when:
- the application
has been approved,
- verification
from the state or territory of original licensure or National
Council of State Boards of Nursing has been received,
- the endorsement
fee has been paid,
- transcript(s)
from the educational program for nursing (when applicable)
have been received,
- the NCLEX examination
is completed successfully, and
- the applicant
has been issued a U.S. Social Security number.
The original license
shall be in effect from the date of issue for a period of
at least one year.
The license will
be mailed to the address listed on the application unless
the Board is notified otherwise. Please notify the Board of
any address changes.
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