Licensure follows the patient
The location that matters for telehealth is generally the patient’s, not yours. Sitting in one state and caring for a patient in Arizona generally means you need authority to practice in Arizona — via compact privilege or an Arizona license. See telehealth: patient in another state.
The law that governs this in Arizona
Caring for a patient located in Arizona is practice in Arizona, so it is Arizona’s own nurse practice act that defines what you may do and the Arizona State Board of Nursing that applies it. That act is A.R.S. tit. 32, ch. 15 (Nursing).
The compact itself is separate law. Arizona adopted it at A.R.S. tit. 32, ch. 15, art. 2.1 (§§ 32-1660 to 32-1660.03) — Nurse Licensure Compact, which is what allows a multistate license issued elsewhere to reach Arizona at all — the practice act still decides what you may do once it does.
Compact status is not the only consideration
Even where a multistate license reaches Arizona, your employer and the Arizona State Board of Nursing may impose additional requirements, and some roles carry their own rules. Compact status answers one question — it is not a blanket authorization to practice remotely.
APRN telehealth is separate
The compact covers RN and LPN/LVN licenses only. If you work as an APRN, your advanced-practice authority is granted state by state and is not carried by a multistate RN license — a point that catches out a lot of remote NP roles.
Since when has a compact license worked in Arizona?
Nurses holding another state’s multistate license have been able to practice in Arizona since January 19, 2018. It has been a member long enough that most guidance you find will be accurate on this point.
The compact statute in Arizona: Confirmed at section level from the Arizona Legislature’s own text: § 32-1660 is headed "Nurse Licensure Compact" and opens "The nurse licensure compact is adopted and enacted into law as follows:". This replaces A.R.S. §§ 32-1668 and 32-1669, which were REPEALED when Arizona moved to the enhanced compact — those sections still surface in search results and on third-party mirrors, and citing them is the specific error this dataset exists to avoid. Which version of the compact text sits in art. 2.1 is not recorded here, because both versions carry the same heading and we have not read the uniform-requirements provisions; Arizona’s membership status is tracked separately and does not rest on that question.