According to a licensure search of her name on the Maine State Board of Nursing site, she is not licensed to practice nursing in Maine, either as a registered nurse or as an LPN. As a test, I also searched my own name only(without my license #), and was successful, so if she was licensed I would have gotten a hit.
It’s possible she was only planning to live here for a short while and has never worked here.
Fort Kent is a small Acadian(French settlers here, similar to Cajuns except colder and no gators)town in the St. John river valley. Hopefully she’ll be seriously shunned and discouraged from staying in Maine. To get from Newark to here she’d have to take a small aircraft(seriously close quarters) from Boston to Presque Isle and then drive to Ft. Kent(no doubt making lots of stops along the way).
This has been an eye- opener for me, I kinda thought we were safe up here, but Ebola is just a 2 day plane ride away evidently.
Mrs. AV
If she works for the fedgov (CDC), then she doesn’t have to be licensed in the state she works in.
The Fedgov (usually the VA) will let you practice at one of its facilities so long as you are licensed - even if not in the state where the facility is located.
That’s different from most nurses who must be licensed to practice in the state where they work.
So. If she works for the fedgov and is licensed in Texas, she may not have bothered to get a license where she actually lives and works. It wouldn’t be necessary.