Verify a Maryland Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (NP/CNS) license

liveMD Board of Nursing · profession key aprn

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How Maryland Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (NP/CNS) license verification works

A Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (NP/CNS) in Maryland is licensed by the MD 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: name license_number license_type status sub_status issued expires renewed compact_status obtained_by original_state education discipline_flag documents.

Board note: MDH CHART (Salesforce Experience Cloud); Apex LicenseLookupController via Aura endpoint answers guests; search capped at 200 rows; APRN/CRNA/CNM filed under profession 'APRN'; no DOB

What a Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (NP/CNS) 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 Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (NP/CNS) 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 Maryland Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (NP/CNS) license by API

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

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