The official board
Vermont nursing licensure is regulated by the Vermont Board of Nursing. That is where applications, renewals, endorsement, and official forms live. Requirements and fees are board-set and change, so we point you to the official site rather than list figures that could go stale.
Official Vermont licensure resources
- Verify a license: Nursys QuickConfirm (national) or the board — see our Vermont verification guide.
- Apply by endorsement: through the Vermont Board of Nursing — see the Vermont endorsement guide.
- Renew a license: through the board — see the Vermont renewal guide.
- Compact status: is Vermont a compact state? See the Vermont compact status page.
The law that governs this in Vermont
Licensing a nurse in Vermont happens under Vermont’s own nurse practice act — the same act that defines what practice means here — administered by the Vermont Board of Nursing. That act is Vermont nursing statutes & rules (OPR, Secretary of State).
The compact itself is separate law. Vermont adopted it at 26 V.S.A. ch. 28, subch. 5 (Nurse Licensure Compact); enacted by Act 64 of 2021, which is what allows a multistate license issued elsewhere to reach Vermont at all — the practice act still decides what you may do once it does.
What Vermont runs itself
Beyond the national systems, Vermont Board of Nursing publishes its own primary-source lookup — Vermont OPR — Find a Professional. Where a board runs its own, that is the record the board itself works from, which can matter when a national system and a board disagree or lag. How Vermont’s route actually behaves, including what an empty result means there, is on verifying a Vermont license.
Official vs independent
The Vermont Board of Nursing and Nursys are the authorities — they make decisions and hold the records. CompactStates.com explains how Vermont licensure works and gets you to those sources quickly. We never charge for or monetize official board or Nursys links.
What the Vermont Board of Nursing controls
Because Vermont is in the compact, this board does two jobs at once: it licenses Vermont residents — including issuing multistate licenses, which it has done since February 1, 2022 — and it regulates every nurse practicing in Vermont on another state’s multistate license. A visiting compact nurse answers to this board while working here, even though it never issued them anything.
Its authority comes from Vermont nursing statutes & rules (OPR, Secretary of State), and its compact role from 26 V.S.A. ch. 28, subch. 5 (Nurse Licensure Compact); enacted by Act 64 of 2021. You can read the law rather than take our word for it.
The board runs its own license lookup — Vermont OPR — Find a Professional — separate from Nursys. Where the two disagree, the board’s record controls.