Spring Arbor clinicals in New Hampshire

01New Hampshire and each SAU program

SAU authorizes its nursing programs in New Hampshire. Faculty approve each preceptor and site, rotation by rotation, and want the clinical agreement, affiliation and preceptor verification forms at least four weeks before the course (2023-24 catalog). The clinical timeline shows when to start.

02Why the Board's placement rule likely skips you

New Hampshire does regulate out-of-state placements, but for a different group. Under Nur 602.15(j), the distance-education rule for pre-licensure schools, an approved program from another state registers with the Board and gives six weeks' notice before each placement. Its paperwork runs to a yearly petition (Form A), a placement form for every rotation (Part B), and a signed agreement from every preceptor. Any of the program's faculty from outside the state who supervise clinicals directly also need a New Hampshire license.

Graduate students sit outside that. The Office of Professional Licensure and Certification lists post-licensure programs, RN-to-BSN and RN-to-MSN among them, as not regulated by the Board, and every SAU online nursing student is already an RN. One loose end: a legal database shows Nur 602.15 expiring on January 23, 2026, though the licensing office still cited it that month, and readoption wasn't confirmed. Either way it aims at pre-licensure schools.

03Full practice NPs and where to look

AANP lists New Hampshire as full practice, so NP preceptors run their own practices. For SAU's NP tracks the 2023-24 catalog wants a certified NP, a physician or a PA; NUR 780B widens that to a master's-prepared nurse in a specialty field.

Manchester-Nashua and the southeastern towns inside the Boston metro hold most of the state's people, with Concord behind them. Systems to try include Concord Hospital Health System, Southern New Hampshire Health, Catholic Medical Center, Elliot Health System and Dartmouth Health. The boards of Elliot and Southern New Hampshire Health proposed dissolving their shared SolutionHealth parent in July 2025, so ask either one which entity signs student agreements now.

04Licensing, and the Massachusetts catch

New Hampshire joined the compact in January 2018. Residents practice on a New Hampshire multistate license; if your primary residence is elsewhere in the compact, your own state's multistate license serves the same purpose.

The catch is next door. Massachusetts passed the compact but hasn't switched it on, with May 2027 as its target, so a New Hampshire multistate license doesn't let you practice at a Massachusetts site. If your best lead is over the line, you'd need a Massachusetts license and your program director's agreement. See RN license for clinicals.

05Why Spring Arbor students in New Hampshire choose us

In New Hampshire we search beyond the Manchester-Nashua corridor for preceptors suited to your SAU track, then assemble the paperwork before SAU's four-week mark. SAU's faculty decide on approval, and they get a submission with every piece in place. Send us your details.