Rivier NP students living in Utah

Updated September 26, 2026 · Reviewed by the Rivier Preceptor placement team

Utah shows green in every graduate column of Rivier University's State Guide. Utah's own rule for nursing schools based elsewhere applies to graduate clinicals as much as to pre-licensure ones, so before an NP practicum there starts, Rivier has conditions to satisfy with Utah's licensing division and nursing board, and your preceptor's license must fit them too.

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Rivier's State Guide (January 2025) for Utah: FNP and PMHNP ok to accept; Nursing Education ok to accept; DNP ok to accept; RN to BSN ok to accept. RN license: in the compact. NP practice: full. — Utah on Rivier's State Guide (January 2025): FNP and PMHNP ok to accept; DNP ok to accept. RN license in the compact; NP practice full (AANP).

Utah on Rivier's chart

Utah in Rivier's State Guide (January 2025)
Rivier program	Utah color	Meaning
FNP (MSN and post-master's certificate)	Green	OK to accept
PMHNP (MSN and post-master's certificate)	Green	OK to accept
Nursing Education (MSN and certificate)	Green	OK to accept
Leadership in Health Systems Management	Green	OK to accept
DNP (Professional Practice and Systems Leadership)	Green	OK to accept
ASN/BSN pre-licensure	Yellow	Limiting criteria: call the undergraduate program director
RN-BSN	Green	OK to accept

Pre-licensure is the one yellow. AG-ACNP applicants will find no column for their track and should check Utah with the Program Director; the State Guide overview covers the key and its limits.

R156-31b-609: conditions on the program

Utah's rule is R156-31b-609. It applies whenever a nursing school from another state places students with Utah facilities for clinical or practicum work, and it asks that school to show Utah's regulators a handful of things first:

Approval from its home board, and accreditation from a federally recognized nursing accreditor
Faculty it employs directly, who clear its accreditor's bar and its home state's, work for a college or university, and carry a Utah or compact license if they supervise you face to face
A plan for how it selects and supervises its preceptors, faculty and clinical sites
An August 1 report to the Board each year with its Utah student count, a license attestation for its in-person faculty and preceptors, and proof of accreditation

Those conditions sit with Rivier, not with you. Ask the Clinical Practicum Coordinator how Rivier stands under R156-31b-609 before you commit to a Utah preceptor.

Full practice, licensed preceptors, and Utah's systems

Utah is in AANP's full practice tier. FNPs and PMH-certified NPs practicing in Utah, with two years behind them, make strong preceptor prospects under Rivier's Handbook, as do physicians and psychiatrists. Utah also sets a floor for every preceptor a school from another state uses: a license in good standing issued by Utah or by a compact member state.

Utah's metro areas are Provo-Orem-Lehi, Ogden, St. George and Salt Lake City-Murray. University of Utah Health is one system to research; Intermountain Health is another, and HCA Healthcare's MountainStar Healthcare is a third. Each settles for itself whether to host students from outside Utah.

Two compacts, one of them waiting

Utah has issued multistate RN licenses under the current compact since 2018. One of them answers Rivier's practicum-state requirement and is good for your campus work in New Hampshire; the license guide has more.

Utah moved early on the APRN Compact as well, with the law signed in March 2022. Five states have now enacted it and it needs seven, so a Utah NP license remains a single-state credential for now. For campus time in Nashua, the FNP asks nine days over three visits, the PMHNP three weekends, the AG-ACNP ten days.

Why Utah students choose us

Utah's rule makes licenses the first thing to check, so we check them first. Every Utah preceptor we propose holds a license that fits the state's rule and meets Rivier's track requirements, and the preceptor's documents travel to Rivier as one set. Rivier's graduate faculty own the site decision; we send them a request with nothing missing. How it works.

Questions Rivier students ask

Is my Utah NP practicum covered by R156-31b-609?

Yes. The rule applies to clinical and practicum placements from any nursing program based outside Utah, graduate or pre-licensure alike. Its conditions fall on the school, so they are Rivier's side of the process; yours is a qualified preceptor with a Utah or compact license, plus a complete Preceptor Request Form.

Can a Utah physician precept me under that licensing rule?

Yes, provided the physician holds a Utah license in good standing. For the FNP, Rivier wants an MD or DO practicing outpatient family medicine for two years or longer; for the PMHNP, a psychiatrist with equal experience. Utah's rule adds only the licensing condition.

Does Utah's August 1 report date affect my placement?

Indirectly. Every school placing students in Utah owes the Board a yearly report on August 1, and it includes an attestation about the licenses its in-person faculty and preceptors hold. Rivier's absolute deadline for fall placements falls on the same date, so a Utah preceptor confirmed well before then keeps both timelines comfortable. The deadlines page has Rivier's full schedule.

Is Utah green for Rivier's DNP?

Yes. The DNP column, covering the Professional Practice and Systems Leadership tracks, is green for Utah. A doctoral project based in Utah calls for an unencumbered RN license good in Utah, and Professional Practice students add a Utah APRN license. Utah's program rule reaches doctoral placements too, since it makes no distinction by level.

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Last checked 2026-09-26

We check these pages against Rivier's own Nursing Student Handbook, program sheets, catalog, academic calendar and State Guide. Your program of study, your course faculty, your Program Director and the Clinical Practicum Coordinator have the final word.

Rivier asks you to identify a qualified preceptor. We make that the easy part.

Tell us your Rivier track, where you live and which semester your next practicum starts. We find preceptors who meet your track's rules, check early whether the site can contract with Rivier, and prepare everything the Preceptor Request Form asks for, well ahead of August 1 and December 1.

Preceptors matched to the track: an MD, DO or FNP in outpatient family practice for NURS 511, a psychiatrist or PMH-certified NP for NURS 521, a hospitalist or intensivist for NURS 638P
Preceptor license, credentials and CV ready for the Preceptor Request Form, with the site's contact details for the contract
In your own area, in New Hampshire or any state Rivier's State Guide accepts

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