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Verify a Maryland Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse license

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How Maryland Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse license verification works

A Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse 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 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 Maryland 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 Maryland Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse license by API

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

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