Vermont clinicals for ETSU nursing students
Vermont's board spells out exactly who may precept an APRN student, yet says little about schools from other states. East Tennessee State University (ETSU) adds its own split, listing Vermont as not yet determined on the College of Nursing pages and as meeting requirements on the university's consumer information pages.
Studying from Vermont?
Tell us your town, your ETSU course and when it starts. We look for Vermont-licensed preceptors who fit it.
Vermont on ETSU's lists
| ETSU page (date) | Program | Vermont |
|---|---|---|
| College of Nursing MSN page (September 2025) | BSN and MSN | Not yet determined |
| College of Nursing DNP page (April 2026) | ETSU DNP and ETSU-TTU joint DNP | Not yet determined |
| University consumer information (June 2025 tables) | MSN and DNP | Meets |
| University consumer information (July 2024) | ETSU-TTU joint DNP | Meets |
ETSU offers no rule for choosing between a College page with no determination and university tables that say meets. Put the question to the College of Nursing and the Vermont Board of Nursing before you enroll, and hold on to both answers. Every state appears on ETSU's licensure disclosures.
Who may precept you in Vermont
On this point the board's FAQ leaves little room. Four tests apply to anyone precepting an APRN student: they are an APRN or a physician; their Vermont license is active and carries no encumbrance; their own experience matches the role and population focus of your track; and they partner directly with your school's faculty. PAs cannot take APRN students at all.
Two practical effects follow. A clinician licensed only in New Hampshire or New York does not qualify for a Vermont rotation, and the population-focus condition mirrors the way ETSU faculty read the patient mix on the Intent Form, explained in matching the patient population.
Check your preceptor's Vermont license first; a PA is not an option for an APRN student.
A rulebook quiet on visiting programs
Part 5 of Vermont's 2023 nursing rules says a nursing education program operating in Vermont needs the board's approval, and it exempts programs delivered entirely online with approval from the state's Agency of Education. By statute, students are spared licensure only for work that is part of study in a board-approved program. A search of the rules, the FAQ and the statutes turns up nothing on a Tennessee school sending one student to a Vermont clinic.
Silence is a reason to ask, not to assume. Write to the board about your ETSU program and course, and let ETSU's review of clinicals outside Tennessee run in parallel.
Burlington, Rutland and the New Hampshire line
AANP shows Vermont as full practice, with a transition: for the first 24 months and 2,400 hours, a new NP practices under a collaborating agreement, and the partner must be a physician or APRN holding Vermont licensure. Students look at University of Vermont Health, whose hospitals include UVM Medical Center along with Porter and Central Vermont, and at Rutland Regional. Southwestern Vermont Medical Center belongs to Dartmouth Health, a system based in New Hampshire.
About 228,000 people live in the Burlington-South Burlington metro, while the Rutland area and Vermont's share of the Lebanon-Claremont area are much smaller. A Vermont search is a small-market search, so start early and look past the nearest town. No system named here is described as hosting ETSU students.
Your license, past grants and why Vermont students choose us
Vermont entered the NLC in February 2022. Under board Rule 4.1, a Vermont license becomes necessary once Vermont is your primary state of residence; before then another member state's multistate license covers you. A Vermont resident therefore carries Vermont's own multistate license, and it satisfies ETSU's DNP rule. The APRN Compact is not law. A Vermont preceptor grant, funded once for fiscal 2023, supported critical access hospital nurses teaching Vermont programs' students.
Every Vermont search we run starts with the board's four tests, then your ETSU course's patient needs. From there we gather the Intent Form and ProjectConcert details and tell the College early that a contract is needed. Clinical faculty give the approval and the Office of Student Services reviews credentials, with everything they need already in the packet. Contact us.
Questions ETSU students ask
Could a PA be my preceptor in Vermont?
Not for an APRN course. The board's published answers limit APRN students' preceptors to APRNs and physicians who are Vermont-licensed in good standing and experienced in your track's role and population. Look for an NP or physician in Vermont instead, and let your clinical faculty confirm the fit.
Does ETSU's online MSN meet Vermont requirements?
ETSU's College of Nursing MSN page, revised in September 2025, lists Vermont as not yet determined; the university's consumer information MSN page, last updated for its tables in June 2025, says the MSN meets Vermont's requirements. Ask the College and the Vermont board which applies to you before you enroll.
Can I train in New Hampshire while living in Vermont?
You can propose a site there, but New Hampshire's rules and ETSU's New Hampshire status then apply, and ETSU's two pages disagree about New Hampshire too. Both states belong to the compact, so your multistate license travels with you. Read the New Hampshire guide first.
Do Vermont preceptor incentive grants cover ETSU students?
Act 183, passed in 2022, paid for a single round of grants in fiscal 2023. The money went to nurses on staff at Vermont's critical access hospitals, and only for teaching students from Vermont's own nursing schools. An ETSU student was outside that group, and no source shows the grants continuing after 2023.
Related pages
Last checked 2026-09-25
We check these pages against ETSU's own catalog, College of Nursing pages, plans of study and ProjectConcert guides. Your plan of study, your syllabus, your course faculty and the graduate clinical coordinator have the final word.
ETSU asks you to lead the preceptor search. We make it the fastest part of your program.
Tell us your ETSU concentration, where you live and which semester your next practicum starts. We find preceptors who fit the course's patient population and prepare everything your Preceptor Intent Form and ProjectConcert entry need.
- Preceptors matched to the course: young and middle adults for
NRSE 5012, older adults forNRSE 5014, women forNRSE 5022, children forNRSE 5024, psychiatric care forNRSE 5405 - Credentials, license numbers, certification dates and the site's patient mix ready for faculty approval
- In your own community, in Northeast Tennessee or wherever ETSU approves your clinicals
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