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 Louisiana State Board of Nursing
For anything Nursys does not show — or to confirm official requirements — go to the Louisiana State Board of Nursing. The board is the authority on Louisiana licensure; we do not make licensure determinations.
Could a Louisiana license be multistate?
Only if it was issued or upgraded on or after July 1, 2019 — the date the Louisiana State Board of Nursing began issuing multistate licenses to Louisiana residents. A license issued before then was single-state when granted, so a nurse holding an older Louisiana license who has never upgraded will still verify as single-state no matter how long they have been licensed here.
Beyond Nursys, Louisiana publishes its own primary-source lookup: Louisiana State Board of Nursing licensure verification. Where the two disagree, the issuing board controls.
What trips people up in Louisiana: Louisiana states outright that some licenses are NOT available for public verification and must be requested by email. So a blank result here does not mean the nurse is unlicensed — the same trap as Washington’s temporary permits, arriving by a different route. Outbound verification to a non-Nursys state is a mailed form with a $25 money order specifically, which is worth knowing before someone tries to pay by card.
The compact statute in Louisiana: Cited to the Louisiana State Board of Nursing, which names its own governing statute as "Part V, Chapter 11 of Title 37, section 1018 through 1020". The legislature’s text is not directly addressable — legis.la.gov serves statutes by document ID issued from its own search rather than by section number — so this is the regulator’s statement of the citation rather than a reading of the enacted text. That is a weaker source than the Arizona or Wyoming records here and is marked as such deliberately.
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.