Nurses are already gouged by their rate of pay by hospital systems so severely that they don’t earn a decent rate.  Then, you add in the malpractice insurance that we carry, and our daily living bills, there’s not much left.  Increasing the fees for licensure causes nurses or those looking to become nurses, to forgo this because they can’t afford it.  There is already a nursing shortage and this only worsens it.  

And why does the Board of Nursing feel they need to increase these feeds? I only look to the board every two years for licensure renewal.  The board does absolutely nothing for me in my daily career.