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Verify a District of Columbia Certified Nurse Aide license

liveDC Nurse Aide Registry · profession key cna

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How District of Columbia Certified Nurse Aide license verification works

A Certified Nurse Aide in District of Columbia is licensed by the DC Nurse Aide Registry. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.

Fields returned for this board: license_number name license_type status issued expires temp_issued temp_expires city from_state actions.

Board note: DC Health nurse aide, home health aide and trained medication employee registrations on the same portal (license types CERTIFIED NURSING AIDE, HOME HEALTH AIDE, TRAINED MEDICATION EMPLOYEE). Pending registrations carry no dates.

What a Certified Nurse Aide license check returns

Field checkPasses when
license_numberEqual to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
nameLast name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
license_typeThe record is a Certified Nurse Aide license, strictly (no near-miss types)
statusThe board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
expiresExpiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
disciplinary_actionsRecorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped

Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.

Verify a District of Columbia Certified Nurse Aide license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "DC", "profession": "cna", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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