Wyoming CNA Registry

How to Look Up a Wyoming CNA License

This section is the mechanics: where the search is, what to type into it, and how to read what comes back.

Wyoming keeps its nursing assistant records at wybn.boardsofnursing.org. The search is public, so you can check your own record or a candidate's record without an account and without paying.

1. Open the Wyoming Board of Nursing Certification Verification Portal

   Go to wybn.boardsofnursing.org and use the Search by Name panel. The search takes Last Name and First Name, both required, an optional License Type dropdown you set to CNA to keep CNA II, medication aide and home health aide records out of the results, and a tick box to search maiden or other names. Two further tabs search by License Number or by NCSBN ID, and the License Number tab needs the License Type set as well. A security check sits under the boxes and normally clears itself. No login, no account, no fee.

2. Enter your details as the registry recorded them

   Use the name from the time of testing, and fill in what the panel asks for. If it offers a license number box, the number is unique to one person and a name is not, but some panels take the number or a name, not both.

3. Match the record to the person

   Check every identifying detail the result shows, not just the name, before you treat a row as a match. A common surname can return more than one person, and the wrong record can look right at a glance.

4. Read what the record says, not just that a name came back

   Appearing on the registry is not the same as being current, so read what the record says about standing, whether that is a status, an expiry date, or both, then check it against the status table below. If a result links through to a fuller record, open it, because some registries keep the status there. The results table shows one small table per person, each with a View Report link, showing First Name, Middle Initial, Last Name, License /Certificate Type and License/Certificate Number, one row for each credential the person holds, a temporary permit included. The record behind View Report shows each credential's License Status, Original Issue Date, Current Issue Date, Current Expiration Date, Compact Status and a Discipline entry that reads YES where the Board has taken action, with the Board's orders under Discipline/Final Orders and any notice under Messages & Notifications.

5. Save a dated copy of the result

   Print to PDF or screenshot the page showing the name, license number, what the record says about standing, and the date you checked. Employers and agencies usually want that record on file.

How to find your license number

Where a search takes the number, it narrows the result to one person in a way a name may not. If you have lost it, it is on any of these.

• Your certificate or wallet card, if your state issued one after the skills test
• The result page of the registry search itself, once you have found your record
• Your employer's personnel file, because facilities record it when they verify you at hire
• The registry, on 307-777-7601, if none of the above works

What Each Wyoming CNA Registry Status Means

The status field is the part that decides whether someone can work. Wording varies by state, so read the exact term on the record rather than assuming what it means.

Why Your Wyoming CNA License Is Not Showing on the Registry

How to Verify a CNA License in Wyoming

This section is what the result proves: what a record is evidence of, what to save as your copy of it, and what it means for you specifically. The search itself is the same for everyone.

Verifying your own license after finishing training

Look yourself up at wybn.boardsofnursing.org once your application has been processed and your results have reached the registry. Allow at least 3 to 5 business days before you treat a missing record as a problem. Save a dated copy of the record, because most employers ask for proof at offer stage rather than checking themselves.

Verifying your license after transferring from another state

A certification held in another state does not appear in Wyoming until reciprocity is processed. Until a Wyoming record exists, employers here cannot verify you, and your out-of-state record is the only proof you have. See transferring a license to Wyoming for the application route, then verify the new record the same way.

Verifying someone else's license (for employers)

Federal rules require a facility to check the registry before it lets someone work as a nursing assistant. The record shows the certification status. It is not the whole check, because Wyoming records findings of abuse, neglect or misappropriation of resident property on a separate list, so a current certification does not on its own mean there is nothing against someone. The record only covers Wyoming, so if a candidate has worked elsewhere, search that state's registry too.

That separate list is the Wyoming CNA Registry. Check both before you rely on a result.

How to Renew Your Wyoming CNA License

Renewing a Wyoming certification takes an application and a fee every 24 months. It expires if the renewal is not filed in time, however much you have worked.

Nursing facility work adds a separate federal rule. Anyone who goes 24 consecutive months without paid nursing or nursing-related work needs at least a new competency evaluation before a Medicare- or Medicaid-certified facility can use them as a nursing assistant again. That is separate from the work the renewal asks for, and Wyoming does not publish who tracks it.

1. Renew before the expiration date

   File the renewal with WSBN before the expiration date on your record. The renewal asks for one of three things in the two years before you renew: 400 hours of employment as a CNA, 40 hours of continuing education, or a pass on the CNA competency exam. Hours worked on your own for a private client, or in a job other than CNA, do not count toward the 400. Renewal opens in the Nurse Portal on 1 October of each even year, and every certificate expires on 31 December of that year, so a first certificate can run well under two years. File the complete renewal by 31 December and you can keep working while the Board processes it. There is no grace period: after 31 December you cannot work as a CNA until the Board recertifies you, which takes a new application and fee, new fingerprint cards and proof of competency.

2. Check the record, and read the expiry date

   Look yourself up at wybn.boardsofnursing.org once the renewal has been processed. A status of active on its own is not enough, because the previous period may still be running. The expiry date is what tells you the new period has actually started.

3. Keep your nursing facility eligibility current

   Paid nursing or nursing-related work inside every 24 months keeps you eligible. Unpaid placements and volunteer shifts do not count. Wyoming does not publish who tracks that work.

   Keep your own record of where and when you worked. A new employer may need that history to show you have not gone 24 months without paid work.

4. Keep your own dated copy

   Save the record showing the new expiry date. It is what you show a new employer if anything about your record is ever in question.

How to Reinstate a Lapsed Wyoming CNA License

A Wyoming certification lapses when it is not renewed in time, however much you have worked. Nursing facility eligibility lapses separately, after 24 consecutive months without paid nursing or nursing-related work. What it takes to come back depends on which of these you are.

How to Get on the Wyoming CNA Registry

In Wyoming you file the registry application yourself, and no record exists until it arrives. States differ on when it has to go in, some wanting it when you enroll and others once you have passed, so check the timing with WSBN rather than assuming it comes last.

1. Meet the basic requirements

   Wyoming does not publish a minimum age for registry eligibility. Training providers set their own, so check with the provider before you enrol.

2. Complete an approved 75-hour course

   Train with a provider approved in Wyoming. Our CNA program directory does not cover Wyoming yet, so start from the state's own approved-provider list.

3. Pass the written and skills tests

   A 60-question multiple-choice knowledge test on a computer, which you pass with 76% or better within 60 minutes, and a hands-on skills test. Both must be passed, with five attempts within two years of finishing training, after which you have to train again. An audio version of the knowledge test, read to you through headphones, costs $10 more if you ask for it before you pay, and the knowledge test can also be taken online with a remote proctor. Federal rules say you can choose to take the knowledge test orally instead of in writing, but some states offer that only as an approved accommodation, so ask your testing entity how to request it if reading is difficult for you or English is not your first language.

   If a facility has already hired you, there is a deadline for passing both tests. Federal rules cap it at four months from your hire date and some states allow less, so confirm yours with WSBN before you plan around it. Our free CNA practice tests cover the same knowledge areas as the written test, and the free CNA skills course walks through the skills evaluation itself.

   Check what the exams cost and who collects the fee before you book.

4. File your registry application

   Submit the application yourself, with whatever documents the registry lists. No record exists until it arrives. Your exam results may travel separately, sent straight from the testing entity, and some states also require your training provider to confirm the training, so check whether anything is waiting on someone else.

5. Check that you appear on the registry

   Allow at least 3 to 5 business days, then look yourself up at wybn.boardsofnursing.org before you contact the registry.

Wyoming CNA Registry Contact Information

Wyoming CNA Requirements at a Glance

Transferring a CNA License To or From Wyoming (Reciprocity)

Reciprocity is how an active certification held in one state becomes a certification in another. It usually avoids retesting, but only while your current certification is in good standing. A lapsed or flagged record cannot transfer.

Wyoming CNA Training Programs

The steps above are the whole route onto the registry. The one thing that usually comes before them is an approved 75-hour program.

If you want to prepare before you enrol, our free CNA skills course covers the material the program and the skills test are built on.

Wyoming CNA Registry FAQ

Look Up a CNA License in Another State

Every state runs its own registry, and a certification is only verifiable in the state that issued it. Pick a state to see its portal, its status vocabulary and its renewal rules.