152.6  Licenses--professional abbreviations.

The board may license a natural person to practice as a registered nurse or as a licensed practical nurse. However, only a person currently licensed as a registered nurse in this state may use that title and the abbreviation "RN" after the person's name and only a person currently licensed as a licensed practical nurse in this state may use that title and the abbreviation "LPN" after the person's name. For purposes of this section, "currently licensed" includes persons licensed in another state and recognized for licensure in this state pursuant to the nurse licensure compact contained in section 152E.1.

Section History: Early form

  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, § 152.5; C77, 79, 81, § 152.6]

Section History: Recent form

  2000 Acts, ch 1008, §4


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