The compact put duties on the employer here. A hospital, a nursing home or a nursing pool that hires a nurse working on another state's multistate license has 30 days to report that nurse to the Board of Nursing, with two attestations attached.

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The duty reaches 8 kinds of employer, among them hospitals, ambulatory surgical facilities, hospice care centers, adult family homes and nursing pools, each tied to its own chapter of the RCW and its own section of SSB 5499. Each of them verifies and reports the nurse, attests that the nurse has completed the state's suicide prevention training, and attests that they've submitted or updated their demographic data. One form carries up to 20 nurses. Employers outside the 8 categories are encouraged to do the same, and the law doesn't require it of them.

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Your questions about healthcare jobs in Washington, answered

Will a Washington job posting say ARNP or APRN?: Washington renames the protected title from advanced registered nurse practitioner to advanced practice registered nurse on June 30, 2027. Until then the Board of Nursing asks for ARNP on prescriptions and on other documents that have to name the license accurately, while saying it won't treat APRN as misleading for anyone currently licensed in an advanced practice role. Job descriptions and recruitment postings sit on the board's own list of documents that may be impacted, so both spellings are worth reading for on the Washington nurse practitioner page.
Does a Washington single-state license become multistate on its own?: It doesn't. The upgrade takes its own application and a $65 fee, and the board says plainly that a Washington single-state license will not change automatically. The license number comes through the upgrade unchanged.
Is a Washington medication assistant a separate credential?: It's an endorsement added to the nursing assistant-certified credential, and WAC 246-841A-586 says nothing in the rules requires a nursing home to employ anyone holding it. The same rule lets an employer limit or restrict the range of functions the rules permit, while giving it no power to expand them. An employer's policy can be narrower than the rule and never wider.