How we find your Southeastern preceptor, course by course

Our steps, from your first message to your first clinical day

We repeat these steps for every clinical course, because the patients and the hour count change each semester.

1. You name the course, not only the trackSend your program, the NURS course coming next, its semester, your parish and your work pattern. NURS 6910 and NURS 6920 call for very different searches.
2. We turn the course into a search profileThe catalog names each course's patients and hours, such as children and child-bearing women over 200 hours in NURS 6820. That sets the specialty, practice type and patient volume we need.
3. We search near you, inside LouisianaWe look for APRNs certified in your population focus, plus physicians where a mix suits the course, within a drive you can keep up, and confirm each Louisiana license.
4. We get a clear yesBefore you hear a name, the preceptor has agreed to teach you for the whole course, understands the NP student role and has described the patient encounters on offer.
5. We find out where the facility standsWe ask whether the practice has hosted consortium students and flag any site that may need a new university contract, so you can check it in the tracking system early.
6. We build your faculty briefYou get the preceptor's current CV or profile, license and certification, the practice's patient mix and a proposed weekly schedule, ready for course faculty and the letter of agreement.
7. We list the site's onboarding itemsWe set any extra facility requirements beside Southeastern's health, CPR, drug screening and background items, so your file is whole before day one.
8. We stay on call all semesterIf a preceptor steps away, your placement advisor starts a replacement search at once.

Louisiana rules we check before you hear a name

Louisiana's nursing board sets preceptor rules for every Southeastern NP student, and the consortium adds its own. We screen for both first, because a preceptor who misses either one costs you weeks.

• An active, unencumbered Louisiana RN or APRN license.
• An APRN certified in your population focus for most of your hours; a physician can carry part of a course.
• No more than two graduate APRN students with one preceptor at a time, so we ask who else they teach that term.
• The consortium's qualifications: a master's or doctorate, current licensure and certification, a suitable practice and at least a year of clinical experience.
• A practice in Louisiana, where Southeastern requires every MSN clinical hour and every PMHNP certificate practicum to happen.

Preceptor requirements and Louisiana-only clinicals explain each rule in full.

If a preceptor drops mid-semester

Preceptors change jobs, take leave or close practices, and a 275-hour course cannot sit idle for long. Tell your course faculty member first, from your university email account, since any new preceptor goes back through approval and review. Then tell us.

Your placement advisor starts with preceptors already screened for your course population and region, learns whether the new site is under contract, and prepares a fresh brief. Southeastern publishes no written policy for a mid-course preceptor loss, so faculty decide how the change is handled; we put a strong replacement in front of them quickly.