What Nursys shows
Nursys QuickConfirm reports the license type (single-state or multistate), current status, and expiration for participating boards. It is the fastest way to confirm whether a license carries compact privilege.
Checking with the District of Columbia Board of Nursing
For anything Nursys does not show — or to confirm official requirements — go to the District of Columbia Board of Nursing. The board is the authority on District of Columbia licensure; we do not make licensure determinations.
What a District of Columbia license can and cannot be
District of Columbia has never issued multistate licenses, so no District of Columbia license — however recently issued — carries compact privilege. If a Nursys record for District of Columbia appears to show anything other than single-state, treat it as a reason to call the District of Columbia Board of Nursing rather than a reason to rely on it.
District of Columbia also publishes its own primary-source lookup: DC Health license lookup. Where it and Nursys disagree, the issuing board controls.
What trips people up in District of Columbia: Free lookup drawn from the Health Regulation and Licensing Administration database, refreshed daily. Outbound verification splits by CREDENTIAL rather than by destination: an RN or LPN verification to another board goes through Nursys, but an APRN verification to any recipient requires a paper form and a $34 fee. So an APRN leaving D.C. faces a slower, paid, manual route that an RN beside them does not — a concrete instance of the pattern this site keeps flagging, where advanced practice sits outside the infrastructure everyone else uses.
RN, LPN/LVN, and APRN
Verification works the same for RN and LPN/VN licenses. APRN authority is separate and verified per state — see APRN and the compact.