The law that governs this in Guam
Getting licensed in Guam happens under Guam’s own nurse practice act — the same act that defines what practice means here — administered by the Guam Board of Nurse Examiners. That act is Guam nursing licensure law (Guam Board of Nurse Examiners, HPLO).
The compact itself is separate law. Guam adopted it at 10 GCA ch. 12, art. 3A (Nurse Licensure Compact); added by P.L. 36-006:1 (5 March 2021), which is what allows a multistate license issued elsewhere to reach Guam at all — the practice act still decides what you may do once it does.
How verification works in Guam
An endorsement application rests on Guam receiving verification of the license you already hold, and that step is where these applications stall. What we found reading Guam Board of Nurse Examiners’s own material:
Two things to know. Guam’s material spreads across three domains: the board sits at guamhplo.org, its primary-source search at guamnursing.org, and Nursys carries the free public lookup — one more hop than New Mexico’s two-domain split. And an OFFICIAL verification requires a signed authorization to release information from the licensee, plus a $25 fee. That consent requirement is unique in this cohort: an employer cannot obtain an official Guam verification independently, the nurse has to sign first, so it belongs in the hiring timeline rather than being discovered at the end of it. The board licenses RNs, LPNs, APRNs and CNAs.
Its own lookup is Guam Board of Nurse Examiners (via Nursys). Confirm what the receiving board wants before you pay for anything — a printout of a public lookup is rarely the document a board means by “verification”. See the two things called verification.
What licensure by endorsement means
Endorsement is applying for Guam’s own license based on an existing license in good standing. You end up holding a Guam license. It is different from a compact license, which is one multistate license covering all compact states.
Applying through the Guam Board of Nurse Examiners
Applications go through the Guam Board of Nurse Examiners. Requirements and fees are set by the board and change over time, so we point you to the official source rather than listing specifics that could go stale.
Why the compact does not help here
Since Guam is non-compact, there is no Guam multistate license and privilege from other states does not reach Guam. Endorsement is the route. See non-compact states.
Can applying by endorsement in Guam get you a multistate license?
Not yet. Guam has enacted the compact (March 5, 2021) but has not finished implementing it, so the Guam Board of Nurse Examiners is not issuing multistate licenses to Guam residents. Until it does, applying by endorsement here produces a single-state license. Watch the board for an implementation date rather than treating the law passing as the finish line.
The compact statute in Guam: Read off the compiled article published by Guam’s own Health Professional Licensing Office, headed “10 GCA Health and Safety, Ch. 12 Medical Practices” and sourced to P.L. 36-006:1. Guam did something almost no other jurisdiction did: it legislated ONGOING MEASUREMENT of the compact alongside joining it. P.L. 36-006 requires the Board of Nurse Examiners to report quarterly to the licensing office how many nurses hold a multistate license issued by Guam and how many licensed by other compact jurisdictions are working here, and to file an annual fiscal impact report on licensure fee revenue and operating costs with the Speaker. Most compact statutes are silent on what joining costs or achieves.