NURS G829: Family Primary Care Management III Practicum
NURS G829 is the third FPCM practicum for FNP students at Loyola University New Orleans, and the one with a split population: its 200 hours are 150 pediatric and 50 obstetric, with preceptors whose practice fits those patients. Two populations can mean two preceptors and two sites, so this is the FNP practicum that most rewards an early, deliberate plan.
Plan your pediatric and obstetric hours
Your city and the fall term FPCM III starts.
150 pediatric hours and 50 obstetric hours
The 2025 FNP Orientation and Practicum Guide divides FPCM III's 200 hours by patient population: 150 with pediatric patients and 50 with obstetric patients. Like the other three FPCM courses, NURS G829 carries 3 credits, and the guide keeps it inside outpatient primary care.
It falls in a fall term in every posted plan: Fall III in the MSN FNP's 3-year plan, Fall IV in the 4-year BSN-DNP plan, and Fall III in the post-graduate certificate plan. By then you have finished FPCM I and II in general primary care, so FPCM III is the first time the course, not you, decides which patients fill your hours.
Plan the two blocks as separate targets from the start. A family practice that looks busy may still see too few children, or too few pregnant patients, to fill its share within your term. The FNP hours page shows how FPCM III fits the full 800.
Preceptors who fit the pediatric and obstetric population
The FNP guide's rule for this course is that supervision must fit the pediatric and obstetric population. It spells out who may supervise FPCM I and II (an NP, MD, DO or PA) but frames FPCM III by population instead, so confirm any preceptor type with your course faculty before you commit.
The guide's certification rules still apply to whoever you choose. NP preceptors must be board certified. Physician preceptors should hold an MD or DO and be board certified in their specialty, which is how a pediatrician or an obstetrician-gynecologist would qualify. Certified nurse-midwife preceptors must be board certified, and certified professional midwives may not precept.
The general rules follow every preceptor too: an unencumbered license where the site is, over a year in practice, no relatives, and physical presence for every hour you log. The preceptor requirements page has the full list. For a Louisiana site, also weigh the state board's expectation that an APRN in your population focus supervise most of your graduate clinical time.
One site or two
A single outpatient practice with enough children and prenatal patients can cover both blocks with one preceptor. When one practice cannot, the alternative is two preceptors: one for the 150 pediatric hours and one for the 50 obstetric hours.
Two preceptors means double the paperwork. Each preceptor needs a CV, a license (a Nursys PDF for NPs) and a signed Preceptor Agreement, and each facility needs a Loyola affiliation agreement, either one already on file or the Standard Loyola Affiliation Agreement signed by the site's authorized signer. The Preceptor Agreement also notes that the preceptor's employer needs an agreement if it is different from the site. Ask the Clinical Practicum Coordinator how to enter a second site for the same course in Exxat.
One more question deserves an early answer. The FNP guide keeps FPCM practicums in outpatient primary care and sends specialty clinics to the Graduate Program Director for approval. If a pediatric or obstetric office you are considering might be read as a specialty clinic, settle the question with your course faculty and that director, in writing, before you list the site in Exxat. The setting approvals page covers the request.
The fall timeline for FPCM III
Because FPCM III starts in a fall term, the three-month lead time pushes its search back into summer. Fall 2026 classes began August 17 and end December 4, with fall break October 12-13 and Thanksgiving November 25-27; the latest safe starting point is three months before your own fall practicum dates begin.
In the posted MSN plan, that places the FPCM III search in Summer II, the term after FPCM II. BSN-DNP students reach it in Summer III, the same term as the 180-hour NURS G944 project practicum, so their FPCM III search runs alongside the last project course.
Two sites double the lead-time risk: if either agreement stalls, part of your 200 hours stalls with it. Starting a full term earlier, and keeping a backup for each block, is the steadiest approach. The three-month lead time page turns this into a month-by-month plan, and need a preceptor fast helps if the fall term is already close.
What to confirm in the FPCM III syllabus and guide
The split between pediatric and obstetric hours comes from the FNP guide; how the course applies it is set in the syllabus. Settle these points with your course faculty before you commit to sites.
- How pediatric and obstetric hours are recorded separately in Exxat, and who verifies each block
- Whether the two blocks can run at the same time or must follow one another
- Which preceptor types faculty accept for each block
- Whether each preceptor completes a separate Practicum Evaluation Form
- Any site requirements beyond Loyola's list, such as extra immunization proof or training, which every site may add
Sites can ask for items beyond Loyola's standard compliance list, and site-imposed fees fall to the student. The compliance requirements page lists what Loyola itself requires.
How we build an FPCM III plan
FPCM III is where our course-matching matters most. We look for a single practice that can fill both blocks, and when one practice cannot, we pair a pediatric preceptor with an obstetric preceptor near you so your 150 and 50 hours fit inside one fall term.
For every site we look up the Loyola affiliation agreement status early and gather each preceptor's paperwork, from CV and license to Nursys PDF and signed Preceptor Agreement, so both Wishlist entries arrive whole. Loyola's placement office and faculty decide on approval; we see to it that both requests match Loyola's rules before they are sent. If either preceptor pulls out mid-term, we replace that block right away. See how it works or reach us through the form below.
Questions Loyola students ask
Can I do all 200 FPCM III hours in pediatrics?
No. Loyola's FNP guide divides NURS G829 into a 150-hour pediatric block and a 50-hour obstetric block, so a pediatric-only placement leaves the obstetric block unfinished. If the obstetric hours are hard to find near you, raise it with your course faculty early rather than near the end of the term.
Can a certified nurse-midwife precept my FPCM III obstetric hours?
The FNP guide lists certified nurse-midwife preceptors and requires them to be board certified, and it bars certified professional midwives from precepting. Because FPCM III is framed by population rather than by preceptor type, run a CNM past your course faculty before the Wishlist goes in.
Can a family nurse practitioner cover both my pediatric and obstetric hours?
Yes, if the practice sees enough children and obstetric patients to fill both blocks inside your term. A board-certified FNP in a busy family practice can be the simplest FPCM III plan: one preceptor, one site and one affiliation agreement. Confirm the fit with your course faculty first.
Can I do my obstetric hours on the labor and delivery unit where I work?
A hospital unit is outside outpatient primary care, so it needs the Graduate Program Director's approval. A practicum at your workplace also needs the Employed at Clinical Site Attestation, which keeps your student hours in another department and outside your working hours.
Does a second FPCM III site need its own affiliation agreement?
Yes. Every facility where you log hours needs a Loyola affiliation agreement signed by all parties before you start there, and hours logged earlier are forfeited. Check Explore Clinical Locations first, since sites already under agreement are processed quickly, and allow several months for a site that sends its own contract.
Related pages
Last checked 2026-09-25
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.
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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
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- In your own community, in Louisiana or any state where Loyola approves your practicum
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