In the Commonwealth of Kentucky, nursing license renewal is annual. The deadline was October 31, 2008 for renewal. Have you renewed your nursing license? I surely hope you have renewed your license because practicing on a lapsed license is a violation of the Kentucky Nurse Practice Act.
You cannot practice nursing and perform nursing related tasks and functions without a valid license to practice in a particular state.
It never fails, I will receive several phone calls from nurses who failed to renew a license and who realize they are practicing nursing without a license and have done so for a period of weeks or months or who responded in the affirmative to a question on the renewal application and are now being investigated by the Nursing Board. This happens with nurses before the Indiana Nursing Board, Kentucky Nursing Board, and Ohio Nursing Board because the renewals are different for each state.
If you are a Kentucky nurse, please check the Board's website and make sure you renewed your Kentucky nursing license in 2008. See https://secure.kentucky.gov/kbn/bulkvalidation/basic.aspx.
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