Licensed Practical Nurse

Washington State holds 9,895 active credentials of this type — 1.8% of every active health care credential in the state. Here is what that number is made of, and how to check one.

What kind of credential this is

A Licensed Practical Nurse is a Other credential — a credential whose title does not carry one of Washington’s usual words. We do not guess which regime it falls under — the title is shown as the Department writes it.

That word is not a formality. Washington issues 26,630 active credentials in this form across the state, and it decides what the holder may do without someone else’s supervision. How a other credential differs from the others.

When these credentials expire

Washington renews on the holder’s birthday, so these 9,895 expiry dates are spread right across the calendar rather than falling together. By year:

Continuing education

The Department records a continuing-education due date for 9,879 of these 9,895 credentials (99.8%). Where it is absent, that does not mean no hours are owed — it means this file does not carry the date.

How long these holders have been credentialled

The oldest Licensed Practical Nurse credential still active in Washington was first issued in 1963. 2,049 of the 9,895 were issued in 2024 or later — 20.7% of the profession is that new.

The disciplinary flag

80 of the 9,895 active credentials of this type carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 0.8% — and 48 carry one marked pending.

This site publishes that count and no more: never who. The reason is not discretion, it is accuracy — the published file carries a yes/no flag and nothing else: no reason, no date, no case number. Naming someone on the strength of it would publish a suspicion rather than a fact. Every credential counted here is active. Why the line is drawn there.

Do not let the date pass

9,895 credentials of this type are active in Washington. Washington renews most of them on the holder’s birthday, every year or every two years, and continuing-education hours have to be done before that date — not after. Leave your details and we will tell you when yours is close, and pass your request for continuing-education hours to providers who teach for this credential.

We take no commission and we vouch for no training provider. We have no arrangement with any provider today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

Some of the 9,895 holders

Named as the Department of Health holds them, and limited to 140 rows — the full set is in the search, by number or by surname.

Narrower pages for this profession

• Licensed Practical Nurse expiring in 2026 — 3,168
• Licensed Practical Nurse expiring in 2027 — 6,725
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2002 — 152
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2003 — 151
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2004 — 169
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2005 — 184
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2006 — 183
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2007 — 187
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2008 — 175
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2009 — 198
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2010 — 262
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2011 — 278
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2012 — 281
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2013 — 296
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2014 — 279
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2015 — 273
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2016 — 285
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2017 — 315
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2018 — 324
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2019 — 327
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2020 — 308
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2021 — 412
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2022 — 448
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2023 — 536
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2024 — 629
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2025 — 781
• Licensed Practical Nurse first issued in 2026 — 639

Credentials of a similar size

• Medical Assistant Phlebotomist Certification 14,526
• Mental Health Counselor License 12,609
• Counselor Agency Affiliated Registration 12,416
• Pharmacist License 11,304
• Massage Therapist License 10,993
• Pharmacy Assistant License 10,772
• Pharmacy Technician Certification 10,038
• Social Worker Independent Clinical License 9,624
• Radiologic Technologist Certification 8,453
• Physical Therapist License 8,159
• Medical Assistant Registration 7,667
• Dentist License 7,055
• Physician Assistant License 6,173

Neighbours by size, not a ranking: this list slides with the profession you are on, so every one of the 98 pages is reachable from the others rather than only the largest few. All of them.