Registered Nurse License first issued in 1997

898 of Washington’s 106,983 active registered nurse license credentials — 0.8% of them — were first issued in 1997.

The 1997 intake, and where it stands now

These 898 people were first credentialled as registered nurse license during 1997 and are still active today. A first-issue year is the closest thing this register has to a start date: it says when the Department first recognised someone in this role, not how long they have worked in health care.

3 of the 898 active credentials in this group carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 0.3% — and 4 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

898 credentials of this type were first issued in 1997. 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.

Who they are

This is a slice of a bigger group: all 106,983 registered nurse license credentials, and what a license is.

Other groups of a similar size

• Medical Assistant Certification — 2019 928
• Mental Health Counselor License — 2001 926
• Registered Nurse License — 1998 910
• Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner License — 2020 904
• Nursing Assistant Registration — 2021 900
• Social Worker Independent Clinical License — 2023 900
• Physician and Surgeon License Interstate Medical Licensure Compact — 2025 896
• Medical Assistant Phlebotomist Certification — 2021 894
• Medical Assistant Certification — 2020 891
• Physician And Surgeon License — 2014 886
• Pharmacy Technician Certification — 2025 885