The act that defines APRN practice in U.S. Virgin Islands
The compact decides whether you may practice in U.S. Virgin Islands. What APRN practice actually means here — scope, titles, what you may do and delegate — is set by U.S. Virgin Islands’s own nurse practice act, Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure — licensing authority and requirements, and interpreted by the Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure. Two states can both recognize your license and still differ on what you may do with it.
Where U.S. Virgin Islands stands on the APRN Compact
We have found no APRN compact law on U.S. Virgin Islands’s books. Read that as a floor rather than a census: our own research turned up two jurisdictions that the published member lists we checked had omitted, so “we have not found it” is the honest claim rather than “it is not there”. Either way no APRN is practicing across state lines on that compact today, U.S. Virgin Islands included.
The compact does not cover APRN roles
The Nurse Licensure Compact covers RN and LPN/LVN licenses. It does not cover APRN authorization — NPs, CRNAs, CNSs, and CNMs. That has been the case since the compact began and applies in every state.
What that means in U.S. Virgin Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands does not currently issue multistate licenses to residents, so there is no U.S. Virgin Islands multistate license, and APRN authority is not portable through the compact either. To practice as an APRN in U.S. Virgin Islands, you work through the Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure; to practice as an APRN elsewhere, you use that state’s process.
The separate APRN Compact
A distinct APRN Compact has been drafted to do for advanced practice what the NLC does for RNs and LPNs/LVNs, but it is not yet operational. Until enough states join and it is implemented, APRN privileges do not cross state lines automatically.