Health Care

Nursing Licensure

The granting of a license to practice the profession of nursing.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

The granting of a license to practice the profession of nursing.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Licensure, Nursing
  • Licensures, Nursing
  • Nursing Licensures

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Aspects Covered

8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

by the state; differentiate from ACCREDITATION (by the profession); various boards can go here; specify geographic location

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66

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WY 21

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Nursing Licensure. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008008. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008008
  2. Nursing Licensure. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_licensure
  3. Nursing Licensure. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17114295