Clarkson College AGACNP clinical sites, course by course

Who may sign as an acute care preceptor

For NRS 861 through NRS 864, the sheet accepts four credentials: MD, DO, NP and PA. It then narrows the NP option in capital letters: "All NP preceptors MUST be Acute Care certified; cannot use FNPs." A family nurse practitioner who covers hospital shifts or staffs an urgent care schedule still falls outside that rule for your acute care hours.

NRS 830 is the exception inside the track. It is taught in family practice or internal medicine, and all four credentials qualify there, family NPs among them. The clinician who signed off your physical assessment hours may therefore not be the right person once the acute sequence begins.

Rules that apply to every Clarkson NP preceptor (November 2023 sheets)

• An active license issued by the state you train in.
• Two or more years in practice; the sheet allows no exceptions.
• Practice that relates to the course content.
• No family members, extended family included.
• A ceiling of two preceptors per course, lifted only by written faculty approval.
• PAs barred from precepting in four states: Arizona, Florida, Maryland and Oklahoma.

The full list, alongside the other tracks' limits, sits on the preceptor requirements page.

When the hospital is also your employer

Clarkson's 2021-22 graduate handbook keeps every graduate nursing student employed as an RN for the whole program, so the hospital you know best may well be the one that pays you. That can help, as long as you stay off your own unit.

The sheet permits clinical hours at your employer, but never on your home unit. If you staff a step-down unit, your NRS 863 hours belong on another service; if you work in an emergency department, NRS 864 needs a different one or an ICU. Keep paid shifts and clinical hours in separate records so neither is mistaken for the other. The workplace clinicals page covers the rest.

Nebraska Medicine employees have one more step. The sheet told staff there to contact the Director before starting preceptor hours to obtain a separate Epic log-on, and Clarkson's 2025 resources page routed Epic questions to the Director of Graduate Nursing's office. Settle it before your first student shift.

How our desk builds an AGACNP site plan

Clarkson students choose us for the acute care track because we plan the ladder as one project instead of four separate scrambles. Your placement advisor maps NRS 861 through NRS 864 to units near you, inside a state Clarkson's workbook clears for graduate nursing, and looks for hospitalist groups, step-down teams and critical care services that can carry you up the sequence.

Every NP we put forward is checked for acute care certification first, then for licensure where you will train, two years in practice and any family connection. We name each provider you will actually see patients with, so every one of them gets an agreement, and we keep specialty time inside each course's cap.

We collect the credentials, legal names and contacts that go into DocuSign, tell you early when a hospital has never contracted with Clarkson's Compliance office, and aim every file at the term's filing date with room to spare. Send your next course code with the contact form; the steps are on how it works.