Loyola New Orleans practicum hours in Minnesota
Minnesota is cleared for all School of Nursing programs at Loyola University New Orleans, and neither licensure table attaches a note to it. The planning centers on your license. Compact multistate licenses carry no weight in Minnesota, and Loyola's handbook ties your RN license to the state of each practicum, so a Minnesota license comes before a Minnesota site.
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Minnesota on Loyola's table and map
| Loyola source | Date | Result for Minnesota |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced practice (MSN and DNP) licensure table | June 2, 2026 | Meets, no note |
| Pre-licensure BSN licensure table | June 2, 2026 | Meets |
| School of Nursing State Approvals Map | July 15, 2026 | Approved for all programs |
All three say yes. For the few states where Loyola's sources pull apart, the licensure disclosures page lays out both sides. If Minnesota is where you are moving rather than where you live now, your program advisor hears about it before the move, per Loyola's guidance.
State law is looser than Loyola's rule
Section 148.271(6) of Minnesota Statutes lets an RN holding another state's license skip Minnesota licensure for practice done inside a formal, structured course of study (a higher degree qualifies). Read alone, that might suggest a Louisiana license is enough.
Loyola's student handbook draws a firmer line, asking that your RN license be current and active in whichever state will host a practicum. Plan your Minnesota hours around the Loyola rule, and if you think the statute changes your situation, put the question to the Clinical Practicum Coordinator before you count on it.
The license has a second job. Loyola asks every enrolled graduate student to keep a Louisiana or multistate license, and with no compact bill even pending in St. Paul, Minnesota licenses are single-state. A Minnesota resident therefore meets it with a Louisiana license held next to the Minnesota one. More on the license page.
When the site's rules are stricter than the state's
Mayo Clinic's NP clinical education page is a good example of a site outrunning the statute. Four conditions appear there. Mayo must hold an agreement with your school. Your Minnesota nursing license must be unencumbered and currently registered. A background study goes through Minnesota DHS. And your faculty of record has to be licensed, as an RN or APRN, by the state you train in.
Rule 6305.0300 of Minnesota's nursing rules interprets the student exemption generously, taking in U.S. programs their own state has approved, yet it expects the instructor supervising the student to carry a current Minnesota RN registration and license. How Loyola meets site-level faculty rules is for the placement office to work through, via the affiliation agreement.
Full practice after 2,080 hours
Independent practice opens to a Minnesota NP after a 2,080-hour stretch of collaboration, and the partner in that stretch can be a physician or an APRN; AANP accordingly lists the state as full practice. The number happens to match Loyola's experience floor for NP preceptors: more than one year of practice, meaning over 2,080 hours. An independent Minnesota NP has therefore passed the Loyola minimum; one still in the collaborative stretch may not have, so ask about start dates. Board certification, no family tie and on-site supervision complete the preceptor checklist.
Minnesota's MERC program is sometimes mistaken for a preceptor payment. The money goes to Minnesota sites, covering part of their cost of hosting accredited clinical trainees, and eligibility requires a Minnesota location for the site and for the teaching program alike, so Loyola students generate no MERC funds.
The Twin Cities and beyond
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington dominates, with roughly 3.65 million of its residents in Minnesota per 2025 Census estimates. Much smaller are Duluth (around 237,000 Minnesotans), Rochester (around 231,000) and St. Cloud (around 206,000). Allina Health and HealthPartners are two large Minnesota systems; Mayo Clinic, Essentia Health and M Health Fairview are others. Each sets its own process for students.
Wisconsin, a state Loyola's map approves as well, holds parts of two Minnesota metros: the Twin Cities and Duluth. A clinic on that side follows Wisconsin's rules, and your license must cover Wisconsin too.
Why Minnesota students choose us
Minnesota rewards students who sort out the license, the site's own rules and the preceptor at the same time, and that is exactly how we build your placement. We match you with preceptors who fit your Loyola course near home, confirm license, certification and years in practice, flag any site-specific demands early, and hand the placement office a Wishlist packet with every upload in place. Loyola's placement office and faculty approve; we make that step straightforward. Send us your details.
Questions Loyola students ask
Can Minnesota residents enroll in Loyola New Orleans' online NP programs?
Yes. Loyola's June 2, 2026 tables show Minnesota meeting requirements, and the July 15, 2026 approvals map from the School of Nursing marks every program approved there. Once enrolled, you choose your own Minnesota preceptor and site, and the placement office works out the affiliation agreement with the facility.
If Minnesota law exempts out-of-state RN students, do I still need a Minnesota license?
Plan on one. Statute 148.271(6) does exempt a nurse licensed elsewhere who practices within a formal course toward a higher degree, but Loyola's handbook wants your RN license active in every practicum state, and some Minnesota sites, Mayo Clinic for one, want a Minnesota license regardless. Confirm any exception with the Clinical Practicum Coordinator first.
Could I do a Loyola practicum at Mayo Clinic?
Mayo decides that under its own conditions, which start with an agreement between Mayo and your school and go on to Minnesota licensure, a state background study and Minnesota-licensed faculty of record. Search Loyola's Explore Clinical Locations map for Mayo before you apply, and treat the answer as Mayo's to give.
Does Minnesota's MERC funding pay preceptors?
No individual preceptor receives MERC money. The Minnesota Department of Health uses it to partly compensate Minnesota training sites for accredited clinical education, and the teaching program has to be located in Minnesota. A Loyola University New Orleans placement falls outside those criteria.
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.
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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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