Clinical Affiliates

At Vermont State, you’ll gain leading-edge skills for nursing jobs through clinical experiences, career coaching, and more. Placements with our clinical affiliates will help grow your professional network. Some of our affiliates include:

Acute Care

• Rutland Regional Medical Center (RRMC), Rutland, VT
• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), Lebanon, NH
• University of Vermont Medical Center (UVM-MC), Burlington, VT
• Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), Bennington, VT

Long-Term Care

• Genesis Mountain View Center (Genesis), Rutland, VT
• Rutland Health and Rehabilitation Center (RHH), Rutland, VT

Community Health

• Vermont Department of Health
• Local elementary and high schools
• Doctor’s offices or clinics
• Senior residential centers
• Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice of the Southwest Region
• Bayada Home Healthcare
• Addiction and recovery centers
• Outpatient diabetic centers

Job Placement

Students of the B.S.N. program have gone on to hold positions in medical settings such as:

• Rutland Regional Medical Center
• Southwestern Vermont Health Care
• Porter Medical Center
• University of Vermont Medical Center
• Gifford Medical Center
• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
• Central Vermont Medical Center
• Glens Falls Hospital
• Albany Medical Center
• St. Peter’s Hospital
• VA hospitals
• Doctor’s offices and clinics
• Local schools
• Home health agencies

Vermont State University is providing a high-quality, affordable degree in nursing to students across Vermont and beyond. More than 80 percent of Vermont State students are awarded financial aid, including new students, transfer students, international students, out-of-state students, and first-generation students. Our financial aid team is here to help you explore all your options.

Many of our clinical affiliates offer tuition assistance for nursing students who agree to work for the facility after graduation. We encourage prospective students to reach out to local facilities to learn about available opportunities. Contact Admissions@VermontState.edu for assistance. 

The baccalaureate degree program in nursing program at Vermont State University is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education; 655 K Street NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202.887.6791.   

The Bachelor Degree in Nursing at Vermont State University is approved by the Vermont State Board of Nursing. Email: SOS.OPRLicensing1@Vermont.gov. 

Office of Professional Regulation, 89 Main Street, 3rd Floor Montpelier, VT 05620-3402. Phone: 802.828.2396. 

Prelicensure BSN NCLEX Pass Rates

Mission

The mission of the Vermont State University School of Nursing is to provide person-centered, accessible, dynamic educational pathways that lead to professional expertise in nursing. Graduates are prepared to deliver excellence and innovation to diverse care environments and communities through education that promotes social justice.

Vision

The vision of the Vermont State University School of Nursing is to inspire future leaders in the advancement of life-long scholarship, community services, and stewardship in the nursing profession. We will support this vision through transformative learning opportunities that promote the pursuit of excellence, professionalism, collaboration, and cultural humility within an evolving global healthcare environment.

Core Values

• Social Justice: diversity, equity, and inclusion; cultural humility, and ethics
• Professionalism: nonmaleficence, communication, competency, autonomy, and leadership
• Pursuit of Excellence: altruism, integrity, and life-long scholarship
• Innovation: accessibility to technology, adaptability, collaboration, ingenuity, and curiosity
• Person-centered: advocacy, compassion, human dignity, shared decision making, optimism and joy

Program Goals

Based on the mission of the Vermont State University Department of Nursing, the following program goals have been identified for the pre-licensure BSN program.

1. Provide a foundation of liberal arts and natural and social sciences that will guide the provision of ethical person-centered, quality care in a safe environment to diverse populations (CCNE Domains 1, 2, 3, 5)
2. Provide an innovative program of study that responds to the rapidly complex system of healthcare (CCNE Domains 1, 7)
3. Prepare graduates to utilize critical thinking skills, clinical judgment and nursing scholarship to solve problems, influence policy, meet the holistic needs of each person, and deliver quality care (CCNE Domains 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9)
4. Promote effective nursing communication with interprofessional collaborators, individuals, families and communities across all healthcare settings to support positive healthcare experiences and outcomes (CCNE Domains 2, 6)
5. Cultivate the role of technology in direct and indirect nursing care roles as a method by which nurses can provide care, gather data, inform decision making and support professional growth (CCNE Domains 8, 10)
6. Develop professionalism, accountability, resilience, leadership, ethical principles and values to use in the lifelong support of nursing practice. (CCNE Domains 9, 10)