Nursys
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About Nursys
The national license lookup (NCSBN) — reference only.
Part of Training & CE — competencies, courses & renewals.
SysNurse never stores your work password — signing in always happens on Nursys’s own official page.
Tips, guides & fixes for Nursys
License renewal pointers
Every state board sets its own renewal cycle, CE hours, and deadlines — there is no single national rule. Set reminders at 90, 60, and 30 days out, and keep your CE certificates somewhere boring and findable.
- Find your exact deadline on your state board of nursing site
- Verify your current status free at Nursys (nursys.com) — the official license lookup
- Confirm how many CE hours your state requires this cycle
- Renew early; boards get slow near deadline weeks
Always verify requirements with your state board of nursing — rules change and this summary is general information only.
Compact (multistate) licenses — the NLC
The Nurse Licensure Compact lets a nurse with a multistate license practice in other compact states without a new license for each one. Your primary state of residence issues it; most US states now participate, but the list changes.
- Confirm your home state is a compact state
- Check that your license is designated "multistate"
- Verify the destination state’s compact status before accepting a contract
- Keep proof of residency paperwork handy for agencies
Verify compact status and your license type with your state board — participation changes over time.
CE basics
Continuing education keeps your license — and ideally, it should also make you better at the bedside. Some states mandate specific topics (like human trafficking or implicit bias in some states); your board’s list is the one that counts.
- Check your state board for required topics and total hours
- Track hours as you earn them (your SysNurse wallet is built for this)
- Keep certificates at least one full renewal cycle
- Beware "free CE" that your board does not accept — check accreditation first
Verify accepted providers and hour counts with your state board.
Keeping certifications current
BLS, ACLS, PALS, TNCC — employers check these at hire and at audit, and an expired card can pull you off the schedule. Most run on two-year cycles; renewal courses are shorter than the originals.
- List every certification and its expiration in one place
- Book renewals 1–2 months before expiry, not after
- Keep digital copies in your credential wallet
- Confirm your facility accepts the provider (e.g., AHA) before paying
Fix: When the system is DOWN — downtime basics
Every system you rely on will have a down day. Downtime is a drill you already know: care continues on paper, times get written down, and recovery goes smoothly for the nurse who documented like it mattered — because it does.
- Confirm it is really down: check one other workstation or ask a neighbor, then notify your charge nurse — they own the downtime call.
- Switch to your facility’s downtime forms and downtime med records. Know where the paper lives before you need it; if you do not, ask now.
- Write times on everything: meds given, vitals, events. Recovery charting later lives or dies on those times.
- Call the IT help desk and note a ticket number if your facility uses them — and use the downtime viewer or read-only access if your facility provides one.
- When systems return, back-chart exactly what the paper says, marked as downtime entries per policy — never reconstruct from memory. Hand the paper to your charge nurse at recovery.
Fix: Workstation on wheels — will not wake
A dead WOW is usually a battery story: carts live hard lives, get unplugged by housekeeping, and quietly drain against the wall. Power first, panic never.
- Plug the cart into a wall outlet and give it two full minutes — a deeply drained cart often shows nothing at all until it sips some power.
- Check the basics: the monitor power button, the PC power button, and the cart’s own power switch or strip, which hides near the base.
- Hold the PC power button for ten seconds to force it fully off, wait ten more, then power on fresh.
- Swap to a working cart so your med pass and charting do not wait on one machine — borrow from a neighbor and trade back later.
- Tag the dead cart per your unit’s habit and tell your charge nurse; biomed or IT owns cart batteries, and an untagged dead cart just gets pushed to the next nurse.
Fix a problem on Nursys
Pick what it is doing and follow the steps. Fixes here are guided, step by step — SysNurse cannot reach into your workstation, and no app should. Never type your work password anywhere except Nursys’s own official sign-in, and never share patient information in a fix request.
Signing in happens on Nursys’s own official page — SysNurse never stores your work password.