(1) The applicant shall be required to pass a written examination in such subjects as the Board may determine. Each written examination may be supplemented by an oral or a practical examination. The standards used by the Board in requiring an oral or practical examination shall be specified in its rules and regulations before such oral or practical examination may be required. The Board may use any part or all of the State Board Test Pool Examination for Registered Nurse Licensure, its successor examination or any other

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nationally standardized examination identified by the Board in its rules.

(2) The Board shall establish in its rules the requirements for rewriting the examination.

(b) By endorsement.

(1) Conditions. The Board shall issue a license to practice as a registered nurse without examination to an applicant who meets the following requirements by having:

(A) Graduated from a state board approved school of nursing which meets the nursing education standards of the Board; and

(B) Obtained an original license to practice as a registered nurse by examination with a passing score as set by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc.; and

(C) Been duly licensed and holding an active license as a registered nurse in one or more states or territories of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, and having no disciplinary action pending and no prior disciplinary proceedings which concluded by disciplining the applicant.

(2) Interim licenses. In the case of an applicant holding a license from another state or territory, based upon a rescore by such state or territory of the nursing examination taken by such applicant, whose original score would have not been passing under the standards of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc., the Board shall issue an interim license to such applicant to practice as a registered nurse on Guam for a period of one (1) year, subject to the conditions that such applicant must:

(A) Have five (5) years continuous nursing practice in one or more states or territories immediately preceding the application for endorsement to practice on Guam;

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(B) Be duly licensed and hold an active license as a registered nurse in one or more states or territories of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, and have no disciplinary action pending and no prior disciplinary proceedings which concluded by disciplining the applicant; and

(C) Within one (1) year from the date of the issuance of the interim license, take and pass the approved examination for registered nurses with the passing score set by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc.; provided, however, that if the applicant takes the examination and the results thereof have not been received within the one (1) year period, then the interim license shall remain in effect until the Board reports whether the applicant has passed or failed the examination.

After passing the examination as required in paragraph (C) above, the Board shall grant the applicant a full license to practice as a registered nurse on Guam.

(c) Nurses Registered Under Prior Law. Any person holding a license to practice as a registered nurse on Guam that is valid on the effective date of this Article shall be deemed to be licensed as a registered nurse under the provisions of this Article and shall be eligible for renewal of such license under the conditions and standards prescribed in § 12317 of this Chapter.

SOURCE: Subparagraph (b) repealed and reenacted by P.L. 22-062:3 (Dec. 6, 1993); further repealed and reenacted by P.L. 22:105:3 (Apr. 1,
1994).

2013 NOTE: In maintaining the general codification scheme of the GCA the Compiler changed the hierarchy of subsection (b) beginning with “”uppercase letters”” to “”numbers”” and “”numbers”” to “”uppercase letters””.