A placement desk built around one college's process
We are a preceptor placement service for Clarkson College nursing students, and everything we do follows Clarkson's own rules: the student-led search its handbook describes, the site and preceptor agreement, the paperwork dates and the state workbook. A placement advisor locates preceptors suited to your course, tests each one against Clarkson's requirements and gives you everything the agreement asks for. Approval always rests with Clarkson's advisors, Compliance office and course faculty; our job is to put a file in front of them that is easy to say yes to.
Get your placement plan
Tell us your Clarkson program and where you live. A placement advisor replies with the preceptor and site options that fit your course.
Why one college gets a service of its own
Clarkson's graduate model is clear and fair. Its 2021-22 Graduate Nursing Student Handbook gives each student, rather than the college or the program, the task of identifying preceptors and clinical or practicum sites. The 2026-27 catalog then asks for the preceptor and site to be approved before you register for each clinical course.
What makes Clarkson different from other schools is the detail around that rule: a new agreement for every preceptor, course and semester, paperwork due Nov. 1 for spring, Mar. 1 for summer and Jun. 1 for fall under the 2021-22 handbook, track rules that keep FNPs out of acute care precepting and bar PA preceptors in four states, and a state workbook that changes year to year. Much of that detail now sits in documents Clarkson has taken off its public site. A service built for one college can hold all of it at once, and that is what we built.
One more thing sets the scope: Clarkson College in Omaha, Nebraska, is our only school. It is a separate institution from Clarkson University in New York, and every page on this site is about the Omaha college.
Who we work with
The core of our work is Clarkson's online nurse practitioner tracks, taken by working RNs: FNP, AGACNP and PMHNP, reached through the MSN, a post-graduate certificate or the BSN to DNP. The three ask for very different people: FNP students need primary care providers who see every age group, AGACNP students need hospital-based clinicians with acute care credentials, and PMHNP students need psychiatric prescribers plus a therapist.
We also help MSN Nursing Education and Nursing Healthcare Administration students find experienced educators and administrators for the NRS 894 and NRS 898 practicums, DNP students looking for a project mentor, and RN to BSN students planning the NRS 482 practicum.
Geography follows Clarkson's workbook. Our searches cover every state that Clarkson's current workbook clears for graduate nursing, 38 in the 2026-27 file, and we tell students in footnoted or closed states exactly what the workbook says before any search begins. Preceptors who want to host a Clarkson student have their own page.
How we learned Clarkson's rules
Everything on this site comes from Clarkson's own pages and documents, the official pages of state boards and legislatures, and health systems' own student pages. We read the 2026-27 catalog course by course, the archived 2021-22 graduate handbook, the November 2023 clinical rotation information sheets for all three NP tracks, the 2023-24 DNP Hours Guide and its Spring 2024 addendum, and every version of Clarkson's state licensure disclosure since 2024.
We date every detail that comes from a document Clarkson no longer posts, and we give the current catalog rule first. Where Clarkson's sources disagree, we show both figures: 150 or 135 practicum hours in NRS 894 and NRS 898, 350 or 300 hours in the DNP post-graduate option. Your Graduate Nursing advisor and course faculty hold the current handbook, and we point you to them for the final word.
What we check before a preceptor reaches you
A name on a list is not a placement. Before we present a preceptor, your placement advisor has confirmed the points Clarkson's documents make decisive:
- Licensure valid in the clinical state, the same state your own RN license must reach
- Two or more years in practice, a minimum Clarkson applies to everyone
- Work that matches the course: all ages and outpatient for FNP, acute care settings for AGACNP, mental health for PMHNP
- No family relationship, and a department other than your own if the site is your employer
- The site's exact legal name, plus an early read on whether Compliance will have to draft a fresh affiliation agreement, a job Clarkson says may take up to two months
How we work with you
You work with a single placement advisor who learns your track, your state and the order of your courses. Because Clarkson runs NP clinical courses strictly one per term, we plan all of your remaining courses together, so each term's preceptor is lined up before the agreement date for that term.
You stay the applicant throughout, as Clarkson's model intends. You file the agreement and communicate with your advisor and faculty; we supply the preceptor and the details that make your submission complete. Should a preceptor step back in the middle of a term, the search for a replacement begins that day, and your advisor helps you notify course faculty as the 2021-22 handbook requires.
We treat what you share with care; the privacy page explains how. For the step-by-step sequence, read how it works.
How we speak about Clarkson
Clarkson's Graduate Nursing advisors, Compliance office and course faculty run a careful approval process, and we speak about them with respect. We use Clarkson's own names for its roles, forms and systems, name roles rather than people, and describe Nebraska Medicine as Clarkson's educational partner because Clarkson does. Health systems appear on this site only through their own published student processes.
We would rather give you a dated fact and the office that can confirm it than a confident guess. That habit shapes every page here and every conversation with your placement advisor. It is also why each guide ends with its sources, so you can read Clarkson's own words for yourself. When you are ready to talk about your next clinical course, the contact page reaches us.
Questions Clarkson students ask
Who approves the preceptors you find?
Clarkson's people, every time. Your Graduate Nursing advisor, the Compliance office, Graduate Nursing leadership and your course faculty each sign off at their own stage, as the placement process page lays out. Our part is the preparation, so the paperwork they review arrives whole and already matches Clarkson's rules.
Which Clarkson students do you help?
Nurse practitioner students in every Clarkson route to the role (MSN, certificate and BSN to DNP), DNP post-graduate students, the Nursing Education and Healthcare Administration practicums, and the RN to BSN. Nurse anesthesia residents train at sites Clarkson's program arranges, so that program has its own path.
Do you help Clarkson students outside Nebraska?
Yes. Clarkson's graduate students are spread across the country, and our searches run in every state the college's current workbook opens to graduate nursing. California, Colorado and North Dakota carry footnotes in that workbook, so for those three we first ask you to confirm your situation with the program by email.
Where do your Clarkson facts come from?
From Clarkson's catalog and web pages, Clarkson documents archived after Clarkson removed them, state board and legislature pages, and health systems' own student pages. Each guide lists its main sources at the end and dates any detail drawn from an older Clarkson document.
Can a preceptor contact you directly?
Yes. Nurse practitioners, physicians, PAs, therapists, educators and administrators who would like to host a Clarkson student can reach us through the preceptor page, which explains what Clarkson asks of a preceptor and how the agreement works.
Related pages
Last checked 2026-09-27
We check these pages against Clarkson College's own catalog, program pages and published nursing documents. Your course faculty and Graduate Nursing advisor have the final word.
Clarkson asks you to find your preceptor. We make the search the easy part.
Tell us your Clarkson track, your city and your next clinical course. We line up preceptors who fit the NRS course and Clarkson's rules, gather the details the site and preceptor agreement asks for, and flag early whether the site needs a new affiliation agreement.
- Preceptors matched to the course: all-ages primary care for FNP, acute care units for AGACNP, psychiatric providers for PMHNP
- License, experience and site details checked against Clarkson's rules before the agreement is filed
- Every clinical course planned in sequence, close to home in a state where Clarkson's graduate nursing meets requirements
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