Compare nursing compact states
Weighing several states at once? Put up to four side by side — compact status, multistate availability, privilege, official board links, and travel/telehealth guidance. Share the link or print it.
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Compact status is the headline: a fully implemented state issues multistate licenses to residents and recognises privilege from other compact states. A partial or pending jurisdiction may do one but not the other — which is exactly why the next two rows are separate questions rather than one.
Residents can get a multistate license matters if you live there. Compact nurses can practise here matters if you are coming from elsewhere. They are not the same thing, and assuming they are is the single most common compact mistake. Whichever way you are going, the compact covers RN and LPN/LVN licenses only — never APRN authority.