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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowIndiana will recognize nursing licenses from most other states with a new law taking effect this summer.
The law will have Indiana join the nurse licensure compact, under which those with Indiana nursing licenses could work in other member states.
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing said about 30 states are part of the compact, although Kentucky is the only one of Indiana's neighboring states currently in the agreement.
Hosparus Health official Amelia McClure told WFYI-FM that the compact allows nurses to work throughout the states needing them most. Hosparus Health operates hospice centers in southern Indiana and Kentucky.
McClure said it's been difficult to fill nursing jobs in rural southern Indiana without the licensing compact.
Indiana's law takes effect July 1.
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