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Board highlights licensing portal, fingerprint improvements and approves Santa Monica College enrollment increase
Summary
The Board reviewed licensing and education improvements — a graduate portal that speeds NCLEX eligibility, electronic transcript arrangements and a planned hard‑card fingerprint conversion contract — and approved Santa Monica College’s request to increase ADN cohort size. Staff said a clinical‑facility authorization data bank under development will help manage placement conflicts.
The California Board of Registered Nursing on Nov. 19 reviewed recent modernization of licensing and education systems and approved one enrollment increase intended to expand the nursing pipeline.
Licensing and portal automation: Staff described the California Nursing Graduate Portal that lets program directors verify that graduates have completed requirements; that verification automatically issues NCLEX authorization, removing prior transcript‑processing delays. Staff also described steps to automate deficiency notifications and an ongoing concierge service that contacts applicants with incomplete applications to reduce the backlog of stalled files.
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