Kentucky: Board of Nursing - Service Details

The Kentucky Board of Nursing offers three different levels of credential validation services for your convenience. Please choose the level of service that works best for you.

Level 1: Basic License Validation

Validate up to 40 credentials at a time.
Search by License Number, Temporary Work Permit Number, or any combination thereof.
You may also validate the status of a State Registered Nurse Aide or Home Health Aide. A report is available for download.
Manual entry of license and permit numbers.
Basic License Validation Service Fees: NO CHARGE

You may access the Basic License Validation service here.

Level 2: Enhanced License Validation

In addition to those services provided to our Basic users, you may also:

Store and validate up to 500 unique credentials in multiple custom created lists.
View notifications of changed license or permit status online or receive automatic email notification of changes to licenses or permits in your saved lists.
Simplified entry of multiple license and permit numbers.
Enhanced License Validation Service Fees:
- Enhanced Credential Validation requires a subscription to Kentucky.gov. Please obtain your subscription account before accessing this service, as you will be asked to sign in using your username and password. If you have questions about subscribing, contact Kentucky.gov at 502-875-3733. The annual subscription fee is $75 and entitles you to access other Kentucky.gov services as well.
- Validation costs $0.10 per license or permit validation request. You will be billed for your license validations on a monthly basis.
- There is an annual $150 premium service fee for the enhanced version of this application.
If you are already a subscriber, you may access the Enhanced License Validation service here.

Level 3: Premium License Validation

In addition to those services provided to our Basic and Enhanced users, you may also:

Store and validate an unlimited number of credentials in multiple custom created lists.
Upload a delimited text file of license and permit numbers to create new lists.
Premium License Validation Service Fees:
- Premium Credential Validation requires a subscription to Kentucky.gov. Please obtain your subscription account before accessing this service, as you will be asked to sign in using your username and password. If you have questions about subscribing, contact Kentucky.gov at 502-875-3733. The annual subscription fee is $75 and entitles you to access other Kentucky.gov services as well.
- Validation costs $0.10 per license or permit validation request. You will be billed for your license validations on a monthly basis.
- There is an annual $300 premium service fee for the premium version of this application.
If you are already a subscriber, you may access the Premium License Validation service here.