Your TAMUCC preceptor, found in Texas before the semester starts.
TAMUCC's FNP guide leaves no doubt: students are "individually responsible for securing an approved clinical site and qualified preceptor." Taking that on is our whole job. We find Texas preceptors near you who fit your TAMUCC course and line up what the affiliation agreement and the Preceptor Agreement Packet need, so your clinical faculty can clear you on time.
Start your placement plan
Your TAMUCC program, your Texas city and the semester of your next clinical course. A placement advisor answers with preceptors and sites that fit it.
What TAMUCC handles, and what it hands to you
TAMUCC assigns you a clinical faculty member, keeps affiliation agreements with sites, runs Typhon so you can see where past students trained, and tracks compliance in CastleBranch. Finding the clinician is left to you: its guide says a missing preceptor is not an extenuating circumstance, and every hour has to happen in Texas.
Filling that gap is why we exist. For each rotation from NURS 5624 to the 270-hour capstone, we find a Texas clinician who fits and collect the CV, license, board certification and site details TAMUCC's forms ask for. Your clinical faculty clear you; our part is a file with nothing missing.
Hours logged before an active agreement and a completed Preceptor Agreement Packet do not count.
Four marks between the search and signed hours
Each one follows a step in TAMUCC's own clinical sequence.
Your TAMUCC program, the rotation ahead, where you live in Texas and the drive you can manage.
Clinicians who fit: pediatrics, women's health, family primary care, a teaching or leadership preceptor.
The site's agreement status, the preceptor's CV and a fresh license copy, ready for DocuSign.
Hours start once your clinical faculty clear you, logged in Typhon, with a backup if a preceptor withdraws.
Pick your TAMUCC program
Your clinical courses and hours, who can precept you, where, and when to start looking. From TAMUCC's own catalog and nursing pages.
- Who precepts
- NPs, MDs or DOs with national board certification and two years of independent practice
- Where
- Texas primary care, with 75 hours each in pediatrics, women's health and geriatrics
- Start looking
- Months ahead: a new affiliation agreement can take up to 3 months
- Who precepts
- A practice organization's Letter of Support and a community facilitator (who gives access, not supervision)
- Where
- The organization where your DNP project and practice experiences run
- Start looking
- Spring cohorts; practice hours logged each term
- Who precepts
- A preceptor in academic or clinical teaching
- Where
- A Texas school of nursing, staff development or clinical teaching setting
- Start looking
- Before the capstone practicum; hours finish before the last week of the semester
- Who precepts
- A nurse leader who can host your capstone project
- Where
- A Texas health care organization
- Start looking
- Before the capstone, taken with NURS 5163
How TAMUCC runs graduate clinicals
Named the way TAMUCC names them, from the FNP guides, the MSN and DNP handbooks and the catalog.
Guides by TAMUCC program
Every TAMUCC nursing program that carries clinical or field hours, and the preceptor it calls for.
The four FNP rotations
Hours, focus and preceptor fit for each FNP clinical course, from health assessment to the capstone.
Preceptors near you
Where TAMUCC students live and train, metro by metro.
Before you start
Does TAMUCC find preceptors for FNP students?
No placement is promised. TAMUCC's FNP guide makes students responsible for securing an approved site and preceptor, and offers Typhon to search sites past students used. We run that search with you. See finding your own preceptor.
Do TAMUCC clinicals have to be in Texas?
Yes for the MSN. TAMUCC's MSN handbook says all clinical education and training must be accomplished in Texas, with a Texas or compact RN license. The Texas-only guide explains what that means if you live near the border or out of state.
How early should I start?
Well before the semester. TAMUCC allows up to 3 months for a new affiliation agreement, larger systems take longer, and hours before the paperwork is complete do not count. Our placement process page lays out the order.
What do we actually do for TAMUCC students?
We look for Texas clinicians and sites that match your TAMUCC course, gather the CV, license and certification the Preceptor Agreement Packet needs, check the site's agreement status, and keep a backup ready. Details are on the process page.
Who clears a preceptor we find?
TAMUCC. Your assigned clinical faculty member approves the site and preceptor and clears you to start, after the agreement and packet are complete. See the Preceptor Agreement Packet.
TAMUCC makes the preceptor search yours. Let us run it for you in Texas.
Tell us your TAMUCC program, your next clinical course and where in Texas you can drive. We find preceptors who fit the course and gather what the affiliation agreement and the Preceptor Agreement Packet need, early enough for both to clear.
- Preceptors matched to the course: pediatrics for
NURS 5644, women's health forNURS 5645, broad primary care forNURS 5746 - CV, license, board certification and the site's agreement status ready for TAMUCC's paperwork
- In Corpus Christi, the Valley, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth and across Texas
Start your placement plan
Your program, city and next clinical semester is all we need to begin.