TX Nursing Licenses - Texas Board of Nursing RN, LVN & APRN Register

The Texas Board of Nursing publishes its entire nursing register as open data - every RN the board has on file, the currently-registered RN directory with deep workforce profile fields, every LVN/VN license, and the advanced-practice recognition register. This actor turns those datasets into a charged-per-record lookup and screening tool.

Built for: healthcare credentialing & workforce verification - confirming that a nurse actually holds a current Texas license, screening for board action (disciplinary flags), background checks on nurse hires / locum / travel staff, healthcare-staffing and EHR onboarding checks, nursing-school verification, and state / county workforce & shortage analysis.

What it covers

Four public BON datasets (one actor, switch with type):

type	What it is	Rows
rn	currently-registered RN directory - live RNs with deep profile fields	436,477
rn-history	every RN license number ever issued (delinquent / inactive / deceased / revoked)	793,555
vn	every LVN / VN license ever issued	318,084
aprn	advanced-practice recognitions - NP / CRNA / CNM / CNS	81,374

rn - the live RN register (default)

The live register - the 436,477 rows of the BON's current RN directory, of which 435,917 hold CURRENT status (the rest are volunteer-retired or renewal-denied edge cases that the board still carries). Each row carries the RN's name, gender, license status and status date, expiration & original-issuance dates, county of residence, employment status (employed in nursing full/part-time, employed elsewhere, unemployed / retired / inactive), primary practice setting (inpatient hospital, outpatient, home care, school health, ...), practice position (staff nurse, charge, management, educator, ...), primary specialty (obstetrics, pediatrics, ER, ICU, ...), highest degree and basic nursing education, nursing school + graduation date, place of employment, state of original licensure, last renewal date, whether they hold advanced-practice recognition, and a current-board-action flag - plus when it was updated.

The full histories (rn-history / vn)

The complete record behind each license number, covering every status a license can hold: CURRENT (C), DELINQUENT (D), INACTIVE (I), DECEASED (E), REVOKED (R), SUSPENDED (S), VOL. SURRENDER (V), VOLUNTEER RETIRED (W), RETIRED - INACTIVE (Z), CURRENT RENEWAL DENIED (K), NLC LICENSE - TX INVALID (Y), NOT CURRENT - SEE ENF (X). These tables are where you answer "is this number still good / was it ever revoked / how many RNs has Texas ever licensed."

aprn - advanced practice

Nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists and nurse midwives with their recognition category + sub-category, approval & expiration dates, and prescriptive-authority details (number, status: Active / Inactive / Limited Prescribing - No Controlled Substances, expiry).

Typical questions

• "Is this RN's license current in Texas?"
• "Look up a license number and get the nurse's profile + status."
• "Show every RN with a board action on record (disciplinary screening)."
• "How many active RNs work in inpatient hospital settings vs home care vs school health?"
• "What's the specialty mix - how many ER / ICU / OB nurses in Texas?"
• "RNs per county - where's the workforce concentration?"
• "How many RN licenses have been revoked or are delinquent (the rn-history register)?"
• "Nurses who graduated from this nursing school."

Inputs

Input	What it does
type	rn (default) / rn-history / vn / aprn
licenseNumber	exact number -> that nurse's record
name / lastName / firstName	holder name substring, case-insensitive
status	matches the official status vocabulary exactly (CURRENT / DELINQUENT / INACTIVE / DECEASED / REVOKED / SUSPENDED / ...). Default CURRENT on the rn register
county	county of residence (substring)
stateOfOriginalLicensure	two-letter state, e.g. TX
boardAction	Yes = disciplinary flag only
aggregate / groupBy	one summary row per group with a count - employment status / practice setting / specialty / highest degree / county / status / apn category / rx status
maxResults	cap records (default 200)

Default run = up to 200 current-RN directory records - a representative live slice, fast for the daily auto-test. For a targeted query add a licenseNumber / name / county / boardAction filter; for a broad state view use aggregate (a handful of summary rows, not a full dump).

Low cost

From $0.001 per record - billed only for the rows you use, with a per-run charge cap so a broad query can't surprise-bill.

Texas doesn't publish the nursing register as one table - it's four differently-shaped datasets (the live RN directory, the full RN history, the LVN history, the advanced-practice register) with different columns and different status vocabularies, plus date columns that read as raw YYYYMMDD. Unifying them into one queryable register is the work here: license numbers that only resolve by exact match, an official status set where "current" and "current-renewal-denied" are two letters apart and must never blur, and a coverage guarantee on every pull. You query a clean register where every filter means exactly what it says; the archaeology stays on our side.

Source

• Texas Board of Nursing - license data - data.texas.gov open-data datasets beaa-5hsm (RN directory), tgb2-j935 (RN history), yjie-tuwv (LVN), rmdp-89uf (advanced practice).
• Reflects the board's published record on the refresh date; not an endorsement of any nurse.