Verify a Iowa Certified Nurse Aide license

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How Iowa Certified Nurse Aide license verification works

A Certified Nurse Aide in Iowa is licensed by the IA Nurse Aide Registry. 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 license_type status currently_employed issued expires city county maiden_name certifications full_name.

Board note: IA-DCWR: DIAL Direct Care Worker Registry & Health Facility Database (dia-hfd.iowa.gov; ASP.NET Core + DataTables JSON, anti-forgery token from the home page, no captcha). POST /Home/DcwSearchAjax (DcwUid registry id | DcwFname/DcwLname) → rows (id, dcwNumber, names, city, county) → GET /Home/DcwDetails?recordid= → Certified Nurse Aide card: Status (Active / No Employment), Currently Employed, Certification Date, Expiration Date. CNA only (medication aides are a separate cmaPublicAdvancedSearch; HHAs not listed). No DOB, no finding column. Captured 2026-11-04; canary Cotheia Goldsmith 375366 (Active, exp 2028-05-18).

What a Certified Nurse Aide license check returns

Field check	Passes when
`license_number`	Equal to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
`name`	Last name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
`license_type`	The record is a Certified Nurse Aide license, strictly (no near-miss types)
`status`	The board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
`expires`	Expiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
`disciplinary_actions`	Recorded 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.

Verify a Iowa Certified Nurse Aide license by API

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

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