Practical Nurse Qualifications

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  3. Professions of the Healing Arts
  4. Nursing
  5. General Provisions
  6. Practical Nurse Qualifications

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An applicant for a license to practice as a licensed practical nurse shall submit to the board evidence in such form as the board may prescribe that the applicant:

  1. Is in good physical and mental health;
  2. Has completed the twelfth grade or its equivalent or has successfully passed the test for and has received a general equivalency diploma and such other preliminary qualifications and requirements as the board may prescribe; and
  3. Has successfully completed a course of study in an approved school for practical nurses, as defined by the board, and the applicant holds a certificate therefrom, or the approved school has certified to the board that the applicant has met all requirements for a certificate.


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