Studying with NAU as a Vermont nurse
Yes, you can. Every nurse practitioner plan at Northern Arizona University shows Meets for Vermont on NAU's licensure table, so a Vermont RN can take the online MS or a certificate from home. The local work is clinical: Vermont's Board of Nursing narrows who may precept an APRN student, and no NAU document settles graduate clinicals outside Arizona.
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Tell us your NAU program and where you live. A placement advisor replies with the preceptor and site options that fit your course.
Vermont's row on NAU's licensure table
Four plans, four Meets. NAU links the Vermont Board of Nursing, which the Secretary of State oversees through its professional regulation office.
| NAU plan | Vermont |
|---|---|
| Nursing - Advanced Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner (MS) | Meets |
| Nursing - Advanced Practice, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (MS) | Meets |
| Family Nurse Practitioner (GCERT) | Meets |
| Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (GCERT) | Meets |
Meets speaks to the education a future Vermont APRN application expects, not to where your practicum hours may happen; that question belongs to your program coordinator. The licensure disclosure guide reads the table as a whole.
Who may precept an APRN student in Vermont
Precepting an APRN student in Vermont falls, per the Board's FAQ, to APRNs or physicians who hold an active, unencumbered Vermont license, bring experience matching the student's role and population, and coordinate with the school's faculty. Physician assistants are left off that list.
NAU then applies its own Arizona-based test from rule R4-19-502, which our preceptor requirements page quotes. In Vermont the two standards pull the same way, since both look for a license where the preceptor works and experience with your patient population; the FNP Program Coordinator has the final say.
AANP files Vermont under full practice. The catch for a newer NP is Vermont's 24-month, 2,400-hour transition, during which a Vermont-licensed physician or APRN signs a collaborating agreement with them. An NP inside that window may already clear NAU's one-year minimum; the coordinator decides.
Out-of-state programs and Vermont clinical sites
Part 5 of Vermont's rules, effective May 11, 2023, requires Board sign-off before anyone runs a nursing school program within Vermont, excepting online-only programs the Agency of Education approves. Nothing we found in Vermont's rules, statute or FAQ addresses a school elsewhere sending a student to a Vermont clinic, and the student exemption at 26 V.S.A. 1583(2) speaks of Board-approved programs. Settle it with your program coordinator before a Vermont site is locked in; state authorization covers NAU's SARA side.
A Vermont search has three population anchors: greater Burlington, the Rutland area and, on the New Hampshire border, the Lebanon-Claremont micropolitan area. Big names in Vermont care include Dartmouth Health's Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, a trio from University of Vermont Health (UVM, Porter and Central Vermont) and, in its own right, Rutland Regional Medical Center. Use them as landmarks only: each writes its own student policy, and none is claimed here as an NAU host.
Section 21 of Act 183 (2022) once paid nurses in Vermont's critical access hospitals per precepting hour, from fiscal 2023 money and only for students of Vermont nursing schools; research found no sign of it after that year.
Your RN license for Vermont clinicals
Vermont's compact membership took effect on Feb. 1, 2022, four years after Maine and New Hampshire joined. Per Rule 4.1, a nurse can practice in Vermont on another compact state's active multistate license; Vermont's own license comes into play once Vermont turns into your primary residence. Live here, and your multistate license is Vermont's, which also meets NAU's admission test through Arizona's multistate rules.
NAU's documents have phrased the license rule differently since 2021; our RN license guide lines up each version. For the NP credential itself there is no multistate shortcut, since Vermont has yet to enact the APRN Compact, so after certification you file a Vermont APRN application.
Why Vermont NAU students choose us
Vermont's narrow preceptor list is the first filter your placement advisor applies: APRNs and physicians with Vermont licenses, and no PA for an APRN rotation. From there we search the valley or town you live in, screen candidates the way NAU's coordinator will, and gather each one's CV, license and certification; your Green Form then goes in with the box for site approval ticked.
Summer's NUR 661, fall's NUR 663 and spring's NUR 665 are sketched as one Vermont plan for FNP students, 780 hours in all, and PMHNP students get psychiatric preceptors near home for the in-person hours of NUR 680. If your preceptor withdraws mid-semester, your advisor starts the replacement search at once. Share your town and start term in the form below.
Questions NAU students ask
Is a PA allowed to precept NP students in Vermont?
No. Vermont's board FAQ names APRNs and physicians, each with a Vermont license, as the preceptors an APRN student may use. NAU's 2021-22 Green Form offered MD, DO, FNP or other, and the FNP Program Coordinator approves each preceptor. A PA colleague can still introduce you to an NP or physician in the practice.
Living in New Hampshire, can I train in Vermont on my own license?
In most cases, yes. Vermont's Rule 4.1 honors an active multistate license from a fellow compact state like New Hampshire while your primary residence stays there, which fits NAU's call for a license valid where you train. Confirm with your program coordinator first.
Does NAU's Meets answer mean Vermont approves my clinicals?
They are separate questions. The table only says NAU's program satisfies Vermont's education requirements for licensure; Vermont's published rules leave out-of-state clinical placements unaddressed. Your program coordinator can confirm a Vermont practicum before you invest in a site.
Can PMHNP students complete clinicals in Vermont?
Yes, if NAU's program coordinator approves the plan. Vermont's rule on who may precept applies to psychiatric rotations as well, so look for a PMHNP or psychiatrist with a Vermont license. NAU's catalog says NUR 680 needs in-person engagement, and because NAU's surviving handbook covers only FNP steps, PMHNP students confirm the process with their coordinator.
Related pages
Last checked 2026-09-27
We check these pages against Northern Arizona University's own catalog, program pages and published nursing documents. Your program coordinator and course faculty have the final word.
NAU welcomes a preceptor you arrange. We arrange one close to home.
Tell us your NAU track, your town and your next practicum. We line up preceptors who fit the course and Arizona's preceptor rule, confirm the site's approval, and gather the CV, license and certification the Green Form needs, well before NAU's cutoff.
- Preceptors matched to the course: all-ages family primary care for FNP, psychiatric settings for PMHNP
- License, experience and certification checked against the rule NAU applies, before the Green Form goes in
- All three FNP practicums planned together, near home instead of a long drive away
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