Verification and Licensing
- Verify a License Online (APN, LVN, RN, Temporary, Permit and Compact Discipline)
- Check Status of Application for Initial Licensure (Endorsement, Examination or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse)
- Online Renewal Application
- Online Endorsement Application
- Online Examination Application
- Online Advanced Practice Nurse Application (with option for Prescriptive Authority)
- Download Paper Renewal Form (for timely or late licensure renewal or to reactive a license)
- Download other Paper Applications and Forms (duplicate license request, complaint, electronic nurse file order form, publications order form, Radiological Procedures, Declaratory Order Form)
- FAQs - Licensing
- Nurse Licensure Compact
- Online Nursing Jurisprudence Examination (for Endorsement and Examination Applicants only)
- Online Nursing Jurisprudence Course
Nursing Practice
- General Nursing Practice Information
- FAQs (including co-signatures, floating, LVN information and more
- Nursing Peer Review/Incident-Based and Safe Harbor
- Delegation Resource Packet
- Scope of Practice
- Guidelines and Interpretive Guidelines (Graduate/New Nurse, Transition back to practice, LVN and APN - Scope and CNS)
- Advanced Practice (including education, scope, prescriptive authority, application and renewal, certification and more)
- Position Statements
- APN Scope of Practice
Nursing Education
- Approved Texas Programs and Student Pass Rates
- Faculty, Program & Student Information
- Links to select rules
- Reports/Data including the Differentiated Entry Level Competencies of Graduates of Texas Nursing Programs and NCLEX pass rates
- FAQs - Both for students and general education
- Continuing Education
- Guidelines (Program Development, Expansion, Closure, Approval, Organization, Evaluation, Faculty, Students and more)
- Innovation in Nursing Education
Nursing Law and Rules
- Nursing Practice Act (Current act, reference to past acts, related Texas Statutes)
- Rules & Regulations (Current rules, reference resources, former and repealed rules)
- Proposed Rules (Rule review plan, proposed rule changes, adopted rule changes, withdrawn proposed rule changes)
Disciplinary Action
- Recent Disciplinary Action
- Disciplinary Action Pages (listed by year)
- Nurse Licensure Compact Discipline
- Imposter Alerts (by year/includes pictures)
- Disciplinary Sanction Policies (Sexual Misconduct, Fraud, Substance Abuse, Misuse, Substance Dependency, or other Substance Use Disorder, Theft & Deception, Lying & Falsification)
- Disciplinary Guidelines for Criminal Conduct (licensure penalties for select crimes)
- Guidelines for Physical and Psychological Evaluations
- Disciplinary Matrix
- FAQs about Enforcement
- Investigatory & Disciplinary Process
- What To Do If You Are Under Investigation
- Reporting a Nurse
- Unprofessional Conduct
About the Board
- Board Members
- BON Meetings (Board meetings, Special Events)
- BON CE Offerings
- Complaint Process
- News for Consumers (including Mission and Philosophy, Services and Links)
- BON News
- BON Expenditures
- Statistical Information
- Quarterly Newsletters
- Publications
- Jobs at BON
Contact the Board
- Phone and Fax Directory
- Directions to the Texas Board of Nursing
- Email the Webmaster
- Physical address
- Executive Director
Nursing Statistics
- APN, LVN and RN Statistical Information (listed by various data categories, including by county - updated annually)