The three Nursys services
- QuickConfirm — free, public license verification, available 24/7. Anyone (employers, recruiters, or you) can look up a license’s type, status, and expiration. This is the tool we point to throughout the site.
- e-Notify — a free service for nurses to enroll and monitor their own licenses, with automatic alerts about status, expiration, renewal, and publicly available discipline.
- Nurse License Verification — the service a nurse uses to send an official verification of their license to another board when applying by endorsement. Unlike the first two, it carries a per-license fee — check nursys.com for current pricing.
What Nursys shows for compact licenses
For a compact question, the field that matters is whether the license reads single-state or multistate. Only a multistate license carries compact privilege to other compact states. QuickConfirm shows this directly, so you never have to guess from a wall certificate. See how to tell if your license is compact.
What Nursys is not
Nursys is a verification database, not a licensing authority. It reports what participating boards submit; it does not issue licenses, grant compact privilege, or make licensure decisions. For anything official — requirements, applications, or a board that does not participate in Nursys — go to the state board of nursing. CompactStates.com is an independent guide and is not affiliated with Nursys or NCSBN.