Loyola New Orleans NP and DNP practicums in Georgia
Yes, you can study online with Loyola University New Orleans from Georgia and complete your practicum hours in the state: every list Loyola publishes marks Georgia approved. Two Georgia rules shape the search. The Georgia Board of Nursing wants a Georgia-authorized APRN leading the clinical teaching of APRN students, and the RN license you train on must be Georgia-issued or multistate.
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Tell us your Loyola program and where you live. A placement advisor replies with the preceptor and site options that fit your Loyola course.
Georgia on Loyola's lists
All three Loyola sources agree on Georgia, so there is nothing to reconcile before you apply.
| Loyola source | Date | Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| Licensure table, advanced practice (MSN and DNP) | June 2, 2026 | Meets; no note |
| Licensure table, pre-licensure BSN | June 2, 2026 | Meets |
| School of Nursing State Approvals Map | July 15, 2026 | Approved for all programs |
The older August 2025 map, still linked from Loyola's state authorization pages, also colors Georgia green. Planning a move mid-program? Talk to your program advisor first; the licensure disclosures page explains why.
The Georgia Board regulates licenses, not your program
Georgia's Board of Nursing sits inside the Office of the Secretary of State, and it keeps graduate and other post-licensure programs outside its approval process. A school based elsewhere therefore needs no Board sign-off before one of its NP or DNP students trains at a Georgia site. The Board's education guidance looks at licenses instead, in three ways:
- Your RN license: Georgia-issued, or multistate from a different compact state, when you live in Georgia and train there for a school elsewhere.
- Your teachers' licenses: the same test applies to faculty and preceptors who work with you in Georgia, in person or online.
- Your clinical teacher's role: for post-licensure APRN students, clinical instruction is led by a Georgia-authorized APRN.
That third point is the one to settle early. Loyola's FNP guide lets an NP, MD, DO or PA supervise FPCM I and II, while Georgia's wording centers on a Georgia-authorized APRN. Before a physician or PA goes on your Exxat Wishlist, ask the Clinical Practicum Coordinator how Loyola reads the Georgia rule.
Restricted practice and your preceptor search
AANP puts Georgia in its restricted category: an NP there practices under a physician's delegation or supervision, with limits on Schedule II prescribing. The site, not only the NP, has to agree to host you, and Loyola's Wishlist asks for the facility's authorized legal signer, so learn who that is in your first conversation.
Loyola's own preceptor requirements, from board certification to on-site supervision of every hour, stack on top of Georgia's.
Georgia's preceptor tax credit and Loyola students
PTIP, Georgia's Preceptor Tax Incentive Program, lets APRNs, physicians, dentists and PAs licensed in Georgia claim a state tax credit for uncompensated, community-based clinical teaching. It counts only students enrolled in Georgia's own medical, dental, NP and PA programs, so a rotation with a Loyola New Orleans student earns the preceptor no PTIP credit.
PTIP itself is in flux: Georgia AHEC says HB 144 revised and extended it, with yearly registration from 2026, while the Department of Revenue still posts the older terms.
Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta and Columbus
Census Bureau estimates for 2025 put the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metro near 6.48 million residents, far ahead of Savannah at roughly 438,000. Georgia's large systems include Emory Healthcare and Grady Health System, as well as Wellstar Health System, Northside Hospital and Piedmont Healthcare; each one's own pages describe how it handles requests from schools.
Two metros straddle a state line. About 430,000 of the Augusta metro's 641,000 residents live in Georgia, the rest in South Carolina, and roughly 266,000 of Columbus's 325,000 are Georgians, the rest in Alabama. A site across either line brings that state's rules into play; see the South Carolina and Alabama guides. Open Loyola's Explore Clinical Locations map first for sites already under agreement.
The license you train on in Georgia
Compact membership for Georgia dates to January 19, 2018, and the state issues multistate RN licenses. Holding one, you are active at your Georgia site and you also meet Loyola's rule that enrolled graduate students keep a Louisiana or multistate license. A single-state Georgia license covers the first need only, so check your license type in Nursys. Georgia has not enacted the APRN Compact. Timing and encumbrances are on the RN license page.
Why Georgia students choose us
Every Georgia candidate is screened for the detail students tend to miss, a Georgia-authorized APRN leading your clinical instruction, and for Loyola's own preceptor standards before any introduction. We then gather the CV, Nursys PDF and signed Preceptor Agreement, find the site's authorized signer and tell you whether a Loyola agreement already exists. Loyola's placement office and faculty make the approval; your request reaches them complete. Reach us through the contact form with your county and practicum term.
Questions Loyola students ask
Can I do Loyola New Orleans clinicals in Atlanta?
Yes. Loyola's approvals map lists Georgia as approved for all programs, and its licensure table shows Georgia meeting requirements. As with every Loyola NP and DNP student, you bring the preceptor and site forward and the placement office arranges the affiliation agreement. Give yourself at least three months, because a new agreement takes time to sign.
Is Georgia Board approval needed before Loyola places me?
No program-level approval is involved. Georgia's Board leaves graduate nursing programs outside its approval process and relies on licensure conditions instead. Your RN license must be Georgia or multistate and active, your Georgia faculty and preceptors meet the same license condition, and the person leading clinical teaching is a Georgia-authorized APRN.
Can a Georgia preceptor claim PTIP for precepting me?
Not for a Loyola rotation. PTIP credits Georgia preceptors only for students enrolled in Georgia medical, dental, NP and PA programs, and a Loyola New Orleans student is enrolled in a Louisiana program. Knowing that before you ask spares an awkward moment later and keeps the conversation on what you bring to the practice.
Can a physician precept me in Georgia?
Loyola's FNP guide accepts board-certified MDs and DOs, and PAs for FPCM I and II. Georgia's Board, however, ties clinical instruction for post-licensure APRN students to a Georgia-authorized APRN. Ask the Clinical Practicum Coordinator how Loyola applies that before you put a physician-led practice on your Wishlist.
Related pages
Last checked 2026-09-26
We check these pages against Loyola's own bulletin, program pages, practicum guides, forms and licensure disclosures. Your plan of study, your practicum guide, your program director and the Clinical Practicum Coordinator have the final word.
Loyola asks you to select your own preceptor and site. We make that the easy part.
Tell us your Loyola program, where you live and which term your next practicum starts. We find preceptors whose patients fit the course, check whether the site already has a Loyola affiliation agreement, and prepare everything your Exxat Wishlist needs.
- Preceptors matched to the course: outpatient primary care for
NURS G823, pediatrics and obstetrics forNURS G829, acute care forNURS G902, psychiatric care forNURS G856 - Preceptor CV, license and Nursys PDF, the Preceptor Agreement and the site's signer details ready for the Wishlist
- In your own community, in Louisiana or any state where Loyola approves your practicum
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