West Virginia

The pathways, as the boards describe them

Registered nurses: endorsement. The board states the eligibility conditions against its statute and rules — "In accordance with" "W. Va. Code § 30-7-1 et seq." "and" "19CSR03" "all endorsement applicants must satisfy the following general qualifications:" — then lists them: at least eighteen years of age; "Completed a 4-year high school course of study or equivalent."; "Completed a pre-licensure nursing education program approved by the Board, or a program meeting comparable criteria established in 19CSR01."; "Completed state and federal criminal history records checks via fingerprint or biometric submission."; and "Submitted a completed RN endorsement application and paid all required fees in the Nurse Portal." RN licensure requirements.

The documents that must arrive. The board publishes a checklist: the completed application "Submitted via the online Nurse Portal along with the application fee."; "Verification of Original License:" — note original, not current; "Proof of Primary State of Residence (PSOR):" being a "Copy of your current driver's license, voter registration card, or tax return declaring primary state of residency."; and the criminal background check. RN licensure requirements.

The multistate license, and its conditions. The board publishes the eleven uniform licensure requirements and states the first as residency. On proof it accepts a "WV driver's license, voter registration card, state income tax return, or military Form DD-2058." On conversion for a nurse already holding a West Virginia single-state license: "You can request a conversion to a multistate license through the Nurse Portal for a" "$7.00 fee" "upon verifying PSOR and ULRs." Multistate Licensure (NLC).

Telehealth, as a separate registration. For a nurse who is not relocating: "For RNs currently licensed in another state providing telehealth care to patients located in West Virginia" the board requires an active license in another jurisdiction and states that the registration "Must renew annually during the September 1 to October 31 renewal window." RN licensure requirements.

Practical nurses: what the board publishes. No endorsement route is set out on the practical-nurse board's licensure page in the captured sources. What it publishes there is the continuing-competence standard a licensee must maintain — "400 hours of employment every 2 years on the even year." together with twenty-four hours of continuing education including specified subjects — and, for a nurse new to the state, "For new nurses or new to WV must complete 2hrs of end-of-life care with pain management" as a one-time requirement. The route itself runs through the Nurse Portal, which the page links without describing. The absence is recorded, not filled from the registered-nurse board's page. Practical-nurse licensure page.

The published process

Practice while the application is pending. For registered nurses the answer is unusual and easy to miss, because it is on the fee schedule rather than in the route: the endorsement fee line reads "RN & APRN Endorsement (Includes Temporary Permit)" at "$125.00". The permit is bundled into the application rather than requested or priced separately. No duration, conditions or issue mechanism for that permit appear anywhere in the captured sources — only that the fee includes it. Separately, the board publishes a ninety-day temporary permit that belongs to the other route: "Eligible examination applicants may request a 90-day temporary permit in the Nurse Portal after official transcript receipt and background check processing." That one is for examination applicants, and the distinction is the board's own. For practical nurses, the instrument a reader finds first is not a bridge either: the ninety-day limited license is issued on reinstatement to a licensee who has fallen short of the continuing-education or employment requirements — "SINCE YOU DO NOT MEET THE CE AND/OR EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR FULL LICENSURE, YOU ARE BEING ISSUED A 90 DAY LIMITED LICENSE." — and the board states its limits in the same document: "PLEASE REMEMBER A LIMITED LICENSE IS NOT RENEWABLE." and, if its conditions go unmet, "YOUR LICENSURE STATUS WILL BE CONSIDERED LAPSED." Nothing in the captured sources offers it to a nurse arriving from another state. Fee Schedule & Fee Waivers; RN licensure requirements; 90 Day Limited License memorandum.

Verification of the existing license. The registered-nurse board asks for the original license and names the channel and its fallback: "Request official license verification via" NURSYS, and "If your original state of licensure does not participate in NURSYS, submit a paper verification form directly to that state board." No comparable instruction appears on the practical-nurse board's pages in the captured sources. RN licensure requirements.

Fingerprints and the background check. Both boards use the same vendor and publish different service codes for it, which is the kind of detail that costs an afternoon if taken from the wrong board: the registered-nurse board gives "IdentoGO Service Code:" "228NJX" and states "Results process in 2–3 business days."; the practical-nurse board publishes "OUR CODE IS:" "228NQ7". The registered-nurse board's endorsement checklist requires the applicant to "Complete state and federal electronic fingerprinting through IdentoGO." Both codes are reproduced as published and neither is treated as covering the other level. Multistate Licensure (NLC); practical-nurse licensure page.

The three rows above answer the questions an experienced adviser raises first, from the board's own published documents, or record that a question is not answered in them.

Fees, as stated in the sources

All quoted; none totaled.

The schedule's own frame. "All application, renewal, and service fees are non-refundable and processed securely through the" Nurse Portal. Fee Schedule & Fee Waivers.

Endorsement, for registered and advanced practice nurses. The row reads "RN & APRN Endorsement (Includes Temporary Permit)" at "$125.00". The parenthesis is the board's, and it is the only statement anywhere in these sources that a temporary permit comes with the application. Fee Schedule & Fee Waivers.

Other stated amounts. "Licensure by Examination (RN) / Re-Examination" at "$70.00"; "Initial APRN License Application" at "$35.00"; "Initial Prescriptive Authority (APRN)" at "$125.00"; and "Multistate (Compact) License Conversion (from Single-State)" at "$7.00". Fee Schedule & Fee Waivers.

A waiver that does not reach this route. The board publishes statutory fee waivers for qualifying low-income applicants and military families, and then states their limit in terms that name endorsement directly: "Fee waivers apply" "strictly to initial licensure applications" and "Fee waivers cannot be applied to license renewals, reinstatements, endorsement applications, or secondary administrative service fees." A relocating nurse is therefore outside the waiver by the board's own words. Fee Schedule & Fee Waivers.

Where part of a renewal fee goes. The board states it: "$20.00 of every biennial RN/APRN license renewal fee directly supports state Nurse Health Programs (including WV Restore, peer support groups, and health coaching)." Fee Schedule & Fee Waivers.

No fee schedule for practical nurses appears in the captured sources; that board publishes no amounts on its licensure page.

What any of it means for a particular application is for the relevant board to determine.

Timelines, as stated in the sources

All quoted; none calculated.

The endorsement temporary permit. No duration appears in any captured source. The fee schedule states only that the endorsement fee includes it.

The examination temporary permit. Ninety days, and available only after two things have happened: "after official transcript receipt and background check processing." RN licensure requirements.

The practical-nurse limited license. Ninety days, not renewable, and terminal if its conditions are unmet, as quoted in section 02. 90 Day Limited License memorandum.

The background check. "Results process in 2–3 business days." Multistate Licensure (NLC).

The telehealth registration window. "Must renew annually during the September 1 to October 31 renewal window." RN licensure requirements.

Practical-nurse continuing competence. "400 hours of employment every 2 years on the even year." with twenty-four contact hours of continuing education on the same cycle. Practical-nurse licensure page.

Processing. No period for reviewing an endorsement application appears in any captured source, at either license level.

What any of it means for a particular application is for the relevant board to determine.

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Change log

Aug 30, 2026 · Page created. Seven first-party captures taken mechanically through this jurisdiction's capture recipe, five from the registered-nurse board and two from the practical-nurse board; every source is served by curl with a pinned browser string. Findings: (1) West Virginia is a split-board state and the two boards publish nothing alike — the registered-nurse board sets out a structured route with statutory citations and a fee table, while the practical-nurse board's licensure page is a run of links and notes with no endorsement route, no fee schedule and no compact statement in it, so the two levels are recorded differently here because the two boards publish differently; (2) the registered-nurse temporary permit is not described anywhere — its existence is disclosed only by a parenthesis on the fee schedule, "RN & APRN Endorsement (Includes Temporary Permit)", with no duration, conditions or issue mechanism published, which makes it the least documented real permit in this collection; (3) the ninety-day temporary permit the same board does describe belongs to examination applicants, not to endorsement, and the practical-nurse board's ninety-day limited license belongs to reinstatement after a continuing-education or employment shortfall — two near-misses a reader will find before finding the real answer, so both are quoted with the distinction stated; (4) the fee waivers the registered-nurse board publishes expressly exclude endorsement applications, which the board states in terms naming the route; (5) the two boards use the same fingerprint vendor and publish different service codes for it, 228NJX and 228NQ7, and neither is treated here as covering the other level; (6) verification is required of the original license rather than the current one; (7) the practical-nurse board's compact material is links to the commission's own documents rather than statements of its own, so no compact row is claimed for that level; (8) two capture facts worth inheriting — the registered-nurse board's Drupal 'main' wraps a thirty-entry toggle navigation around every article, so the recipe scopes to '.node__content'; and the practical-nurse board's SharePoint '#content' matches a 404-character shell, so that recipe scopes to '.ms-rtestate-field'. An address hazard too: the registered-nurse board's contact page is at 'contact-us-0', with the trailing zero. Automated or AI-assisted decision-making: none located; the terms artificial intelligence, automated decision, and algorithm return nothing across the seven captured sources, and that scope is recorded in `research/ai-disclosure.jsonl`. Capture pending: the endorsement applications inside both Nurse Portals, any practical-nurse endorsement route, fee schedule or compact statement, the statute and rules cited by the registered-nurse board, and the License by Endorsement Flowchart. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed Aug 30, 2026. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.