Terms of use
These terms cover your use of boardandborder.com, published by Field Assembly LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company. There is no account to create, nothing to buy, and no subscription. You are reading a free publication, so these terms are correspondingly short, and the section that matters most is the second one.
Effective August 27, 2026.
What this site is
Board & Border assembles each state board of nursing's own published statements about licensure by endorsement and mobility between states, with the Nurse Licensure Compact's own materials on a page of their own. Every page quotes those documents with two dates — the date the source itself carries and the date it was retrieved — links to the originals, records a review date and a named reviewer, and states absences as findings rather than passing over them.
The pages are free in full and stay that way. They are independent of every board of nursing, of the compact commission, and of every staffing agency, license service, and employer named anywhere on this site.
What these pages are not
Read this section even if you skip the rest.
The board's own document governs, always. These pages quote what a board published on a stated date. Boards revise their instructions, fee schedules, processing times, addresses, and contacts, sometimes without notice and sometimes without changing the document's own date. A quotation that was exact when it was recorded can be stale by the time you read it. Every page links to the original for this reason. Where a page here and the board's current document disagree, the board's document is what applies.
This is not legal, professional, or career advice, and we are not your lawyer, advocate, or representative. Reading these pages creates no professional relationship of any kind. A license application carries real dates, and a late step can cost an assignment or a start date. Every amount and every date on these pages is quoted from a source, not calculated for any particular application. The pages never determine eligibility for endorsement or for a multistate license, never determine which pathway governs a situation, never total fees, never restate processing times as promises, and never predict outcomes. Compact eligibility turns on residency facts that the boards decide, and those determinations are theirs.
Where something important turns on it, verify it at the source. The linked original is the authority, the office named on it answers questions about it, and where a license, a start date, or the right to practice is at stake, a licensing attorney or the board itself is the place to take the question. These pages exist to make the boards' own statements findable, so that better questions can be asked. They do not exist to answer them.
Accuracy is taken seriously here and every page is re-verified on a stated cadence. Even so, no page is warranted to be complete, current, or correct, and it cannot be, because the documents underneath it are not ours.
Corrections
Corrections are made on the record. When something here is wrong, the page is fixed and the change log says what changed and when, rather than the page being edited silently.
If you find an error, write to hello@fieldassembly.net. A link to the board document you are reading it against is the most useful thing to send. Please leave out your license number, your employer, and the details of your own application; none of it is needed to fix a page, and the privacy page explains why.
Using these pages
Read them, quote them, link to them, print them, and hand them to a nurse who needs them. Attribution is appreciated and a link is better than a citation, because it lets the next person check the sources for themselves.
Do not present these pages as your own, and do not republish them in a form that strips the source links, the dates, or the reviewer notes, because those are the parts that make them worth trusting.
Do not use automated means to overload the site. There is no other acceptable-use rule worth writing, because there is nothing here to abuse: no accounts, no uploads, no user content, and no way to reach anyone but us.
Copyright
The original writing, arrangement, and commentary on this site are © 2026 Field Assembly LLC, as are the Board & Border name, wordmark, and site design.
The quoted passages are not ours. They belong to the boards and to the compact commission that published them, and are quoted, with attribution and a link, for the purpose of reporting and commenting on what those bodies have said — the ordinary business of a reference work. Works published by state governments are generally not subject to copyright, though this varies by state, and the compact commission is not a state government.
Copyright questions and infringement notices are handled through Field Assembly's DMCA and copyright process.
Disclaimers and liability
The site is provided "as is," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Field Assembly LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the site or your reliance on anything in it.
Some states do not allow certain limitations, in which case the limitations above apply only as far as that state permits. Nothing here limits liability for fraud or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
Changes, and contact
These terms may be revised. The effective date at the top records when, and a material change will be described rather than slipped in.
Field Assembly LLC, Massachusetts, United States. hello@fieldassembly.net. Field Assembly's other works are governed by their own terms.