Who can precept a Loyola University New Orleans NP or DNP student
Loyola's FNP guide tests every preceptor on five points: licensure in the right state, board certification, over a year in practice, no family connection and hands-on presence for every hour. Your course decides which clinicians fit, and a Louisiana site adds the state board's rule on licenses, student load and faculty contact.
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The FNP guide's baseline for every preceptor
The 2025 FNP Orientation and Practicum Guide is Loyola's most detailed statement of who may precept a nurse practitioner student. Whatever the course or state, every preceptor you propose is measured against the same five points.
A qualified preceptor, per the FNP guide
- License: current, active and unencumbered in the state where the practicum site sits, which may differ from the state where you live.
- Board certification: NP preceptors must be board certified; physicians should hold an MD or DO with board certification in their specialty; either way, certification should suit the specialty and setting.
- Experience: more than one year of practice, which the guide spells out as 2,080 hours.
- No relatives: no immediate or extended family member may serve as your preceptor.
- Presence: on site the entire time, directly supervising every hour you log, and able to give constructive feedback.
For an NP preceptor, the license you upload is a Nursys PDF, so the license check is settled on paper before anyone signs off. Every upload the request carries is listed on the Exxat Wishlist page.
Which clinicians fit each Family Primary Care Management course
The FNP sequence has four practicums, and the guide pairs preceptor types with each one. All four sit in outpatient primary care unless a director approves something else.
| Course | Who may precept | What the site must offer |
|---|---|---|
NURS G823 FPCM I Practicum | NP, MD, DO or PA | Outpatient primary care, 200 hours |
NURS G827 FPCM II Practicum | NP, MD, DO or PA | Outpatient primary care, 200 hours |
NURS G829 FPCM III Practicum | A preceptor whose practice fits the population | 150 pediatric plus 50 obstetric hours |
NURS G833 FPCM IV Practicum | A preceptor meeting the baseline; specialty sites need FNP Director approval | Primary care or an approved specialty site, 200 hours |
Continuing students should know the older rule. The pre-Fall 2024 practicum letter confined PA preceptors to N812, and only in primary care, whereas the 2025 guide lets PAs supervise FPCM I and II. If you started before Fall 2024, ask the FNP Program Director which rule covers you before a PA commits.
For obstetric hours, a certified nurse-midwife can fit as long as the CNM is board certified; the guide rules out certified professional midwives. The FPCM III practicum page covers that term in depth.
DNP Scholarly Project preceptors: leaders as well as clinicians
The DNP practicum requirements letter describes a different profile for NURS G939, NURS G942 and NURS G944. Its examples run from the exam room to the executive suite: APRNs and physicians, nursing directors and administrators, chief officers, patient care vice presidents, and administrators of the wider organization.
On relationships, the letter is stricter than the FNP guide. A project preceptor must be licensed, without encumbrance, in the state of the practicum, supervise every project hour directly and offer constructive feedback, and cannot be a relative, your employer or the person you report to. That last limit matters to nurses planning a project inside their own organization; the workplace practicum page works through it.
Three signatures go on the DNP Scholarly Project Preceptor-Student Agreement: the project preceptor's, yours and a Loyola faculty member's. Each semester the preceptor and your scholarly project advisor talk at least once, by phone or on Zoom.
Acute care, midwifery and anesthesia rules
The hybrid tracks layer their own rules on the baseline, and two of them assign sites rather than asking students to search.
- AGACNP: a student performs invasive procedures only with the preceptor of record, and that preceptor's agreement has to be on file in Exxat Prism. Time with interventional radiology, radiology and ultrasound teams is also allowed under the AGACNP Practicum Guide.
- Nurse-Midwifery: CNMs, OB/GYNs, NPs and PAs may teach, but more than half of all clinical hours must be spent with a CNM. Neither certified professional midwives nor senior midwifery students may act as preceptors, and the preceptor stays in the room for any birth or procedure.
- Nurse Anesthesia: the program handbook, dated 2023, allows only NBCRNA-certified CRNAs and anesthesiologists with staff privileges; time with residents, fellows or senior students does not count, and no supervisor oversees more than two students at a time.
- PMHNP: Loyola's posted practicum guides cover the other tracks, so PMHNP students confirm preceptor fit with the PMH Program Director and course faculty.
What Louisiana's rule adds for a site in Louisiana
When the site is in Louisiana, the Louisiana State Board of Nursing's preceptorship rule, LAC 46:XLVII.3543, applies alongside Loyola's guide. It reaches Louisiana sites only. Loyola publishes no NP preceptor-to-student ratio of its own, so for a site in another state, ask your course faculty which host-state rules apply.
The LSBN graduate preceptor rule, in brief
- Each preceptor is licensed in Louisiana, as an RN, an APRN or both, and that license is active and unencumbered.
- The larger share of your graduate clinical time belongs with an APRN who is licensed and certified in your own population focus, primary care and/or acute care; other clinicians may add interprofessional experience.
- A single preceptor takes on at most two graduate APRN students in any one clinical experience.
- Faculty stay reachable by preceptors and check in with every preceptor-student pair at least once a week, and one faculty member covers no more than nine APRN students in preceptorships.
- Faculty keep responsibility for selecting and guiding learning experiences and for evaluation, with preceptor input, using written criteria built with the facility's nursing administration.
Two practical effects follow. A Louisiana FNP student planning physician or PA preceptors for FPCM I and II should check the overall mix with course faculty, since the rule tilts graduate time toward APRNs who share your population focus. And a Louisiana NP already teaching two graduate APRN students in a rotation is at the state's limit. The Louisiana APRN practice page explains how collaborative practice shapes who precepts in the state.
What a preceptor signs and receives
Preceptors commit in writing. The Preceptor Agreement sets out their duties, from orienting you and signing your practicum log to checking in with Loyola faculty when the practicum opens and closes, then completing the Practicum Evaluation Form; the Preceptor Agreement page goes through the form.
Nothing in Loyola's published documents promises preceptors an honorarium, CE credit or an adjunct title, and the affiliation agreement between Loyola and the facility calls for no payment in either direction.
When a preceptor asks how big the commitment is, the course answers it: each FNP practicum in the current curriculum runs 200 hours, logged in Exxat, with the preceptor signing the log along the way and completing one evaluation at the end.
How we check a preceptor before your request goes in
Final approval of every placement belongs to Loyola's placement office and faculty. Our job is to see that the preceptor who reaches them clears every point above on the first pass. That thoroughness is why Loyola students choose us, because a preceptor who fails one rule after the Wishlist is in can cost weeks.
- License where the site isWe check that the preceptor's license is active, unencumbered and issued by the site's state, pull the Nursys PDF for NP preceptors, and look for Louisiana licensure at any Louisiana site.
- Certification and 2,080 hoursWe verify board certification in the right specialty and more than a year of practice before the CV goes into your packet.
- Course fitWe match the preceptor to the course: primary care volume for the first two FPCM practicums, children and pregnant patients for FPCM III, leadership roles for DNP projects.
- Relationships and loadWe screen out family ties, employer and supervisor conflicts for DNP projects, and, in Louisiana, a preceptor already carrying two graduate APRN students.
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Questions Loyola students ask
Can a physician assistant be my preceptor in Loyola's FNP program?
Yes for FPCM I and FPCM II: under the 2025 FNP guide, PAs can supervise those two courses alongside NPs and physicians with an MD or DO. FPCM III must fit the pediatric and obstetric population, and FPCM IV specialty sites need FNP Director approval. Pre-Fall 2024 cohorts had an older rule allowing PAs only in N812 in primary care, so confirm which rule applies to you.
Does my preceptor need a Louisiana license?
Loyola wants the preceptor licensed where the site is, with that license current, active and unencumbered. Louisiana sites carry one more condition from the state board: a Louisiana RN or APRN license in good standing, active and unencumbered. A preceptor at a site in another state holds that state's license, checked the same way.
How many students can one preceptor supervise at a time?
In Louisiana, the LSBN rule caps it at two graduate APRN students in any given clinical experience. Loyola publishes no NP preceptor-to-student ratio for sites elsewhere, so ask your course faculty which host-state rules apply. Nurse Anesthesia follows its own handbook limit of no more than two students per supervisor.
Can a relative or my boss precept me at Loyola?
No relative may precept you, immediate or extended, under the FNP guide. For DNP project practicums, the requirements letter adds two more exclusions: your employer and anyone who directly supervises you. The FNP guide mentions relatives only, so an FNP student thinking of a manager should ask the FNP Program Director first.
How long must a preceptor have been in practice?
More than one year, which the FNP guide counts as 2,080 hours. The guide also wants NP preceptors board certified and physicians holding an MD or DO with board certification in their specialty, so a clinician in the first year after boards does not yet qualify.
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Last checked 2026-09-25
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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.
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