Verify a Ohio Registered Nurse license

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How Ohio Registered Nurse license verification works

A Registered Nurse in Ohio is licensed by the OH 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 board license_type status sub_status sub_category board_action issued effective expires compact address endorsements specialties national_certifications.

Board note: OH-ELICENSE-DATA: DataOhio 'State of Ohio Licensure - Individual' daily CSV (dataset fd9f9671; the eLicense Ohio database behind elicense.ohio.gov, 2.41M rows, QUERY_RUN_DATE = extract day); resolved via the portal API (versions/latest → download-file signed URL), indexed in SQLite, freshness gate 3 days; STATUS/SUB_STATUS/EXPIRATION_DATE/BOARD_ACTION per licence (BOARD_ACTION Yes/Pending flagged, never auto-failed); no DOB (name-only >1 hit = ambiguous). The live elicense.ohio.gov search stays WAF-blocked from this network. Captured 2026-11-03. APRN/CRNA/CNM designations are endorsements (APRN.CNP/CNS/CRNA/CNM.…) on the RN row.

What a Registered 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 Registered 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 Registered Nurse licenses

Registered Nurse licenses can carry a multistate privilege under the Nurse Licensure Compact. When the Ohio 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.