Maryville NP clinicals in South Dakota: the agreement is with your site

South Dakota on Maryville's licensure grids

Maryville's 2020 status page lists no South Dakota restriction either. Because the grids are licensure disclosures, it helps to know what South Dakota asks of an APRN program: a clinical total of at least 500 hours inside the role and population focus, plus graduate courses in physiology or pathophysiology, pharmacology, and health and physical assessment. Maryville's concentrations carry 750 clinical hours, and its NP core covers those subjects in NURS 611, 612 and 615.

No Board approval, but a faculty license expectation

In its June 2020 revision of “Information for Out-of-State Nursing Programs,” the Board states that it doesn't approve nursing programs from other states. When a student is placed in a South Dakota direct-care setting, that placement rests on an agreement the out-of-state program makes with the in-state preceptor, the agency or both. For you, that means the Maryville MOU or the site's own contract is the document that makes the placement possible.

One thing the Board does want: a faculty member in the program licensed in South Dakota or privileged to practice in the state; with APRN students, that license or privilege has to be at the APRN level. ARSD 20:48:07:49, the state's distance-education rule, applies the same expectation to faculty who teach APRN students located in South Dakota. That obligation is Maryville's, and our research doesn't name the faculty member, so confirm with Maryville if a site asks.

Full practice after 1,040 collaborative hours

AANP lists South Dakota as full practice, with a condition. South Dakota asks a new NP to complete 1,040 hours first under a written collaborative agreement, in which a physician qualifies as the collaborator, as does a certified NP or a certified nurse midwife. So some NPs you contact will still be working under an agreement, and their collaborator is a second person worth asking.

Maryville's preceptor rule applies on top of state law: an APRN, MD or DO who is board certified, holds an unencumbered license where they practice and has at least a year of experience, with LCSW, PsychD or PhD psychologists also open to PMHNP students. An NP still inside the 1,040 hours is new to practice, so check that one-year minimum before you ask.

South Dakota's preceptor standard for its own board-approved programs, ARSD 20:48:07:34, asks for APRN preceptors whose role, focus or specialty is comparable to the student's. It isn't written for Maryville, but it's a sound test when you pick a preceptor for a pediatric or acute-care practicum.

Compact licenses, now and later

South Dakota's implementation date for the Nurse Licensure Compact was January 19, 2018. For clinicals in the state, you can use either a South Dakota RN license or another compact state's multistate license; each meets Maryville's rule that you be licensed where you see patients. See RN license for clinicals.

The governor signed the APRN Compact on February 5, 2024, making South Dakota one of five enacting states with Delaware, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Seven are needed before it operates, so there's no multistate NP license to plan around yet.

Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Aberdeen

Sioux Falls is South Dakota's largest metro, with about 305,000 residents on the South Dakota side and a small share in Minnesota. Rapid City follows at about 157,000, and Aberdeen is a micropolitan area of about 42,000. Our research points to three large systems: Avera Health, Monument Health and Sanford Health.

Take them as examples of where NP students search, not sites known to accept Maryville students. Sanford Health also runs hospitals in Fargo and Bismarck, so a student near the northern line could look at either state; a North Dakota facility, though, brings an NDBON recognition step that South Dakota doesn't have.

What a placement advisor does for South Dakota students

We look for an APRN, MD or DO within your reach who meets Maryville's rule, and with newer South Dakota NPs we check the one-year experience minimum before you ask. Then we help you gather the license, board certification and agency contacts for your Exxat request and the site agreement. Maryville alone approves each preceptor and site. Start with the form below.