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The Board: protects the public from unsafe nursing practice, provides approval for more than 200 nursing education programs, issues licenses to more than 27,000 nurses per year by examination to new graduates and by endorsement to licensees from other states seeking a Texas license, as well as providing nursing practice and education guidance ...
The Texas Board of Nursing launches new online Texas Nurse Portal. The new Texas Nurse Portal is a confidential and secure system that allows applicants to apply for nurse licensure by examination, endorsement, or renewal. The new paperless system is completely online.
License Verification. Please click here for the Texas License Verification Portal. Board of Nursing Complaint Process: Investigation to Resolution.
Your initial Texas license is valid for a period of 6-29 months, depending on your birth month and year. After your first renewal, your license will expire on the last day of your birth month, typically every 2 years. Licensees born in odd-numbered years will renew in odd-numbered years.
Electronic List. How do I get a list of all licensed vocational nurses (LVNs), licensed registered nurses (RNs), or advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) from the BON's database? This page will help you make that request. Note that you may verify a license here. Open Records Request.
Licensing Services. The BON licenses nurses as new graduates through examination and endorsement from other states. All nurses are required to renew their licenses on a biennial basis with evidence of required continuing nursing education.
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to provide an organization through which boards of nursing act and counsel together on matters of common interest and concern affecting the public health, safety and welfare, including the development of licensing examinations in nursing.
This requirement includes all individuals seeking to obtain or retain a license or privilege to practice nursing in Texas. (b) The Board defines good professional character as the integrated pattern of personal, academic, and occupational behaviors that indicate an individual is able to consistently conform his/her conduct to the requirements ...
Oct 1, 2020 · On June 15, 2020, the Texas Board of Nursing (BON) launched the new Texas Nurse Portal, ushering in a new era of licensure regulation in Texas. The project aimed to bring an updated platform of application submission and licensure maintenance to BON staff and the Texas nursing community. On ...
Board Rule 217.7 requires name and address changes to be submitted to the Board in writing. These changes may be submitted by using the Nurse Portal and uploading applicable supporting documents. Information about the Nurse Portal is available on the Board’s Nurse Portal webpage: https://www.bon.texas.gov/texasnurseportal/ .
