Nurses holding a nursing license that expires in December 2015 or January 2016 are strongly encouraged to renew as early as possible, ideally BEFORE Nov. 23,2015 in order to prevent delays in license issuance.

The Department of Consumer Affairs, the BRN's parent agency, is scheduled to transition additional Boards and Bureaus to the new BreEZe online licensing system. The transition to the new system will require a temporary shutdown of all licensing processes for several business days, and could result in delays in processing initial license applications, license renewals, and name/address changes.

Check the BRN website at http://www.rn.ca.gov/index.shtml for updates.