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Verify a District of Columbia Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse license

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How District of Columbia Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse license verification works

A Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse in District of Columbia is licensed by the DC Board of Nursing. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.

Fields returned for this board: license_number name license_type status issued expires temp_issued temp_expires city from_state actions.

Board note: DC Health Board of Nursing on the DC Health verification portal (Salesforce Experience Cloud, Apex action searchRecords replayed over plain HTTPS). RN/LPN/APRN (NP, CNS, CRNA, CNM). Number search is a contains-match; connector confirms with ids_equal. No DOB published → name-only hits on >1 licensee are ambiguous_match.

What a Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse license check returns

Field checkPasses when
license_numberEqual to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
nameLast name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
license_typeThe record is a Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse license, strictly (no near-miss types)
statusThe board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
expiresExpiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
disciplinary_actionsRecorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped

Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.

Nurse Licensure Compact and multistate Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse licenses

Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse licenses can carry a multistate privilege under the Nurse Licensure Compact. When the District of Columbia record shows a multistate license, the result includes multistate: true and the privilege states. Privilege status is confirmed at the compact's own lookup, never inferred.

Verify a District of Columbia Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "DC", "profession": "lpn", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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