Licenses for nurses, social workers still pending in big state backlog

Licenses for nurses, social workers still pending in big state backlog

Nurses, social workers and other much-needed health care professionals are experiencing long waits to get their Illinois state licenses issued for the first time or renewed.Mary Altaffer/AP Back in April, the executive director of the American Nurses Association Illinois, Susan Swart, told my associate Isabel Miller that advanced practice registered nurses are losing their jobs because of ongoing and severe state licensing delays.Swart said som…