Registered nurse in US-CA
What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.
What was found
One folder per board, covering the professions the department regulates, from nursing and medicine to dentistry, accountancy, engineering and contracting, each refreshed at the start of the month against a published record layout carrying licence type, number, status and an individual-or-organisation flag. Monthly is far better than nothing and slower than a licence can change: a suspension on the second of the month is invisible in the file for four weeks.
What it publishes
| Check | Answer | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| A public page per licence | Yes | Gives a reader something to look at and a checker something to archive and attest against. |
| A bulk export | Yes | Lets a consumer hold the whole list instead of fetching one licence at a time, and lets anyone hash it. |
| Machine readable | Yes | A CSV or JSON rather than a page built for a browser. Decides whether checking can be automated at all. |
| Signed | No | Makes the file impossible to forge or mirror convincingly. Nothing reaches grade A without it. |
The next step
Sign the file
The export exists and is machine readable, which is the expensive part. What remains is a key and one DNS record on a domain the authority already controls, which makes the file impossible to forge and takes this row to grade A.
A grade describes a register, not the authority behind it and not the quality of its supervision. An authority can run an excellent register and still sit at grade D because it is a search form.
If this row is wrong, it gets corrected with the correction published beside it. The index is useful only if it can be argued with. Tell the lab.