11 March 2020 – Policies suspended prohibiting nurses with out-of-state licenses from practising in Massachusetts

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Intervention Categories: Legal and policy; Regulatory change
Level of Jurisdiction: Massachusetts

Overview: Updated its policies to expedite the processing of reciprocal license applications for nurses that are licensed in another jurisdiction to allow those applications to be processed in one business day
Full details here: https://www.mass.gov/doc/expedited-processing-of-reciprocal-license-applications-in-the-event-of-a-declared-public/download