Registered Nurse
- Exam
- Third-party exam
- Education
- Degree
- Experience
- None
- Background check
- Required
DESCRIPTION OF OCCUPATION: A Registered Nurse (RN) administers nursing care to ill or injured persons and promotes wellness education. Specific duties vary with the work setting. General duties include providing medications and treatments as prescribed by physicians, observing and reporting patients' symptoms and responses to treatment, and supervising other personnel. REQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSING: Personal requirements: Submit FBI electronic fingerprint for criminal background history check. Education requirements: Graduate from a board-approved nursing program. EXAMINATIONS: National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX). FEES: $40 for application, $54 for 2-year license, $40 for Center for Nursing special fund, and $100 for biennial compliance resolution fund. Renewal every 2 years is $36. OTHER: There were 16,200 licenses currently active as of February 24, 2022. ~ revised 12/20
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- Third-party exam required
- Education
- Degree required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Certification
- No mention of certification
- Experience
- No experience
- Background check
- Background check required
Issuing body
- Department
- Hawaii State Dept. of Commerce & Consumer Affairs
- Division
- Professional and Vocational Licensing Division
- Board
- Board of Nursing
- Address
- P. O. Box 3469 [335 Merchant St., Rm. 301, Honolulu, HI 96813] Honolulu, HI 96801
- Phone
- (808) 586-3000
- Agency website
- http://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/boards/nursing/
- Licence page
- https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/boards/nursing/
- Last updated
- July 21, 2022
Occupations (O*NET)
- Registered Nurse 29-1141.00
Source and verification
This record is Hawaii's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
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