New Jersey Nursing License and Renewals: What You Need to Know

New Jersey may have a bad rap, but you’ll have to put all those stereotypes and jokes aside – because that’s all that they are. The Garden State offers some of the highest pay rates and well-educated work forces in the country. Not only will an assignment here reward your savings account, but you’ll learn from working alongside the best of the best.

Things to know about applying for your New Jersey Nursing License:

• New Jersey is not a nurse licensure compact state
• No temporary license
• A permanent license can 10 to 16 weeks to turn around; plan ahead or consider taking a travel in New York or Connecticut, while you wait.
• If you physically drive to one of the Sagem Morpho locations in NJ to have your fingerprints taken and delivered, processing time will decrease to four to six weeks.
• We will pay to get you there
• We also help cover processing fees
• Must be SANE certified
• This is a NURSYS participating state

Documents needed for getting your New Jersey State nursing license

• Signed application
• 2x2 color passport photo
• Notarized affidavit
• Birth certificate
• Certificatino and Authorization form for a criminal history background check
• NJ and FBI fingerprint card
• VOLs (use NURSYS if applicable)
• Other supporting documentation as applicable (immigration documentation, name change certificates, supporting court documents, etc.)

Processing fees to be aware of when getting your New Jersey State nursing license

• $200 to the NJ Board of Nursing ($75 licensing fee, $120 certificat fee, $5 surcharge)
• $63.19 out-of-state or $67.20 in-state

New Jersey Board of Nursing, 124 Halsey St., 6th Floor, Newark, NJ 07102

Mail to: 124 Halsey St., 6th Floor

Call: (973) 504-6430

Web: New Jersey Board of Nursing