Nursys e-Notify Terms & Conditions
Please read and certify that you have read these Terms & Conditions, including the Disclaimer of Representations & Warranties, for permission to access the Nursys database and to use the Nursys e-Notify service. If you are an employer of nurses or are using the Nursys database or Nursys e-Notify service for an employment purpose, then you must also certify your compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") below. Here are links to the Terms of Use and the Privacy Statement for National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. (“NCSBN”) websites.
The Nursys nurse licensure and disciplinary database is the repository of the license and disciplinary data of the NCSBN member boards of nursing. NCSBN grants to you a limited, personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to access the Nursys database to verify your licensure and disciplinary history for purposes of licensure, endorsement and/or employment. This permission to access is limited and does not permit, or include the right to, any reproduction, reuse, sale or other commercial or derivative use of any Nursys data, except that credentialing agencies and credential verification organizations may individually download and provide Nursys data to institutions as part of legitimate credential verification services. Except for the foregoing sentence, you are prohibited from downloading or copying any data for any third party's use or from accessing the Nursys database with any data mining or automated data gathering or extraction tools.
As part of the registration process, you must select a username and password. You may not (i) use a username of any another person with the intent to impersonate that person, (ii) use a username subject to the rights of any other person without authorization, or (iii) use a username that NCSBN, in its sole discretion, deems offensive. You are responsible for keeping your username and password confidential.
For Institution Accounts Only:
If you are registering your institution, then you are responsible for keeping the user list and their log in credentials up to date in the system. If you are registering your institution, then you are responsible for keeping an accurate and current list of nurses with whom the institution has current affiliations, which includes removing nurses from your institutions affiliated list promptly after ceasing the affiliation. If you are registering yourself individually as a nurse, then you agree and authorize NCSBN to use, or provide to third parties, the workforce related information you provide in the registration for purposes of nursing workforce tracking and research. If you are registering yourself individually as a nurse, then you also agree and authorize NCSBN to provide your contact information to nurse regulatory bodies (i.e., respective boards of nursing). If you are registering yourself individually as a nurse and you opt into the Provider Bridge network, then you agree and authorize NCSBN to provide your name and email address to the Provider Bridge system so you can be contacted to provide healthcare services in cases of pandemic or other emergencies; you may also receive an introductory email and periodic update emails from Provider Bridge.
Notice – Disclaimer of Representations & Warranties
Through a written agreement, participating individual boards of nursing designate Nursys as a primary source equivalent database. NCSBN posts the information in Nursys when, and as, submitted by the individual boards of nursing. NCSBN may not make any changes to the submitted information and disclaims any responsibility to update or verify such information as it is received from the individual boards of nursing. Nursys displays the dates on which a board of nursing updated its information in Nursys.
In order to challenge the content, accuracy or completeness of individual records displayed on Nursys, you may register a challenge by email to NursysSupport@ncsbn.org. Nursys shall promptly forward your challenge to the respective nursing regulatory body (i.e., board of nursing) and that nursing regulatory body will notify you of a resolution.
To make your compliance certification, click on the "I agree" button below.
EMPLOYER CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE FAIR CREDIT REPORTING ACT AND NURSYS E-NOTIFY TERMS AND CONDITIONS
For Employers Only:
To access and obtain information from the Nursys nurse licensure and disciplinary database, you must certify your compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") and the following terms and conditions.
(A) You will seek Nursys records (i) as an employer, only on nurses employed by you, assigned to you as temporary staff from a third-party staffing vendor and/or applying for employment with you or the third-party staffing vendor; (ii) as an emergency response organization, only on nurses listed on your nurse registry to update their licensure status; (iii) as a credentialing service, only on nurses employed by your customer; or (iv) as an education provider, only on nurses who are enrolled in your nursing program. If you are a nurse, you may enroll your license(s) for self-monitoring and license expiration reminders.
(B) To use such records for any purpose, including the evaluation of anyone for employment, you must also certify that you will:
- (1) comply with all FCRA notification and authorization requirements, including authorization to obtain periodically updated records, prior to obtaining any information from Nursys;
- (2) not use the records obtained from Nursys in violation of any federal or state equal opportunity law or regulation; and
- (3) provide a copy of the records to the individual as well as a summary of the individual’s rights under the FCRA (in the form attached as Appendix A) if any adverse action is to be taken based, in whole or part, on records obtained from Nursys.
To make your compliance certification, click on the "I agree" button below.
