In order to safeguard life and health, any person practicing or offering to practice nursing in the Virgin Islands for compensation or personal profit shall be required to submit evidence that he or she is qualified to so practice and shall be licensed as provided in this subchapter. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice or to offer to practice nursing in the Virgin Islands or to use any title, abbreviation, sign, card or device to indicate that such a person is practicing nursing unless such a person has been duly licensed and registered under the provisions of this subchapter.