Independent U.S. matching support for nursing practicum preceptors
United States · Nursing students & preceptors
PreceptorFinder helps nursing students look for qualified preceptors for clinical and practicum requirements. We review complete requests and look for options. Your university still approves the preceptor and site.
Choose the path that matches your role. The rest of the site is organized the same way so you are not mixing student and preceptor tasks.
Nursing students
Share your university, degree, specialty, state, and hours. PreceptorFinder reviews complete requests and looks for preceptor options that appear to fit. You still complete your program’s approval process.
Find My Preceptor Student resourcesClinicians
If you can host nursing students, submit a profile. PreceptorFinder reviews information and may contact you when a student’s needs appear to align with your practice. Assignments are not automatic.
I Want to Become a Preceptor Preceptor resourcesUniversity, degree, specialty, location, hours, and dates.
Complete information is reviewed for obvious constraints and missing details.
The team looks for preceptors whose specialty, setting, and location may fit.
Nomination, affiliation, and onboarding remain your program’s process. Approval is never ours to grant.
Students often search by school name. These independent guides explain the search. They do not imply university affiliation.
BSN, MSN, NP, and practicum cluster for Capella students.
Learn moreIndependent notes for field experience and preceptor search.
Learn moreTimeline-minded practicum planning for Chamberlain students.
Learn moreLiberty, Purdue Global, ASU, Georgetown, UTA, GCU, WGU, Herzing, Aspen.
Learn moreSpecialty match is one of the main reasons universities decline a proposed preceptor. Start with the course you actually have, not the abbreviation you hear most often.
Availability depends on specialty, credentialing, clinical site requirements, university approval, and current preceptor capacity. We publish state pages where local context is actually useful.
Use the Academy to understand the process before you spend weeks on incomplete outreach.
Start with Capella, Walden, or the full university list. Every university page states that PreceptorFinder is independent.
Qualified nurse practitioners and other eligible clinicians can submit a profile. PreceptorFinder reviews information and contacts professionals when a student’s needs may fit. Hosting students is not automatic, and compensation is not promised.
Students use PreceptorFinder when they need structured help locating a preceptor after they understand—or while they are gathering—their program’s rules. What we offer is a simple request process, educational resources, and a review of complete submissions. What we do not offer is a guaranteed match, a guaranteed university approval, or invented outcome statistics.
A licensed clinician who supervises a student during practicum or clinical hours. Faculty still own the course; the university still approves the arrangement.
No. We review requests and look for options. Availability depends on specialty, geography, site policy, and university rules.
No. Those universities approve their own preceptors and sites. We are not affiliated with them.
Submit the Become a Preceptor form. We review profiles and follow up when a student request may fit.
No. The form is a request for review. Placement, if it occurs, still requires a willing clinician and university approval.
Students can start a preceptor request. Clinicians can submit a profile.