Healthcare Jobs in Nevada

Nevada is outside the nurse licensure compact, so a nurse arriving from another state applies for a Nevada license by endorsement. For registered and practical nurses the board publishes 4 requirements, an application through the Nevada Nurse Portal with the fee, evidence of graduation, an official Nursys verification from the state of original licensure by examination, and fingerprints. Applications are processed in about a week, and eligible applicants may be given a one-time temporary license valid for 6 months that may not be extended or reissued. The permanent one waits on fingerprint reports from the state and the FBI, and the board warns those can take up to 4 months, so it's worth doing the prints first.

Not on the license alone. Nevada keeps Schedule II closed to an advanced practice registered nurse until that nurse has at least 2 years or 2,000 hours of clinical experience, and the way past it before then is a protocol approved by a collaborating physician. The training obligation is separate again. The statute tells the Board of Nursing to require, by regulation, that an advanced practice registered nurse registered to dispense controlled substances complete at least 2 hours in each licensure period on people with substance use or other addictive disorders and on prescribing opioids, and the nurse may count those hours toward the board's continuing education requirement.

A Nevada medical facility has to ask the board. Before it hires a nursing assistant, a nursing assistant trainee or a medication aide, the facility must obtain validation from the Board of Nursing that the person holds a current certificate, is enrolled in the required training program or is waiting on examination results. Traffic runs the other way too. Every hospital or agency in the state employing nurses, nursing assistants or medication aides files a list of that nursing personnel with the board at least 3 times a year, and the statute makes those lists confidential apart from the public records exception it names. A nursing assistant working for a Nevada hospital or agency is on one of them, whatever the Nevada nursing assistant job is called.