Verify a Iowa Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse license

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How Iowa Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse license verification works

A Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse in Iowa is licensed by the IA 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 license_type status expires issued current_license_issued inactive_date specialty_area compact_status primary_state_of_residence probation actions.

Board note: AMANDA portal JSON API (ibonrest executeCustomTransaction; AES-ECB responses). Number-only lookup — no name search on the portal, so claims without a number answer insufficient_identifiers. RN 6 digits, LPN P+5 digits; ARNP folder type mapped but no ARNP number was proven on 2026-11-03.

What a Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse 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 Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse 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.

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 Iowa 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.