Your WGU preceptor, lined up before the deadline

No. WGU asks you to identify your own preceptor and clinical sites and does not keep a list of preceptors to choose from. Its Clinical Learning and Placement Support team reviews and approves the preceptor you bring and helps set up the affiliation agreement, but sourcing the preceptor is your responsibility. That is the exact gap we fill.

The WGU MSN Family Nurse Practitioner program requires 650 direct patient care clinical hours across three clinical internship courses, completed in your home community with a preceptor you secure at a minimum of two primary care sites.

Partly. WGU caps telehealth at about 10 percent of FNP hours and up to 75 percent of PMHNP hours, with the remainder completed in person. We line up precepted telehealth where your track and WGU policy allow it, which is a real advantage for PMHNP students.

For FNP, a board-certified nurse practitioner or an MD or DO board-certified in family or internal medicine, among others, with an active unencumbered license, national certification, and at least two years of current specialty experience. For PMHNP, a board-certified psychiatrist, PMHNP, or certain licensed behavioral-health providers with limits. We verify eligibility before you commit.

WGU asks you to engage your Placement Coordinator about a year before Clinical Internship I, and an affiliation agreement alone can take up to six months to negotiate, so the earlier you start, the safer your timeline. Starting late is the single most common reason a term slips.

No. We help you meet WGU's requirements; we do not act for WGU.

WGU expects you to source your own preceptor and keeps no list, so most students spend months cold-emailing clinics on their own. You can shorten that by handing the search to us: tell us your track, your city, and your timeline, and we identify a WGU-approvable FNP or PMHNP preceptor plus the two clinical sites your track requires. You pay only once the match is confirmed.

Yes. WGU Preceptor is an independent preceptor placement service for Western Governors University MSN nurse practitioner students, meaning we do the actual work of finding, vetting, and securing a qualified preceptor and clinical sites, then coordinating the affiliation agreement.

Yes. WGU has you complete your 650 direct-care hours in your own home community, so we source a preceptor and clinical sites in your city and state rather than sending you across the country. Give us your location and track when you request a plan, and we search your area first for a WGU-approvable match.

The fastest safe route is to start early and let us run the search in parallel while you focus on coursework. WGU asks you to engage your Placement Coordinator about a year out because a single affiliation agreement can take up to six months, so we open that paperwork early and drive it to signature to protect your start term. We move quickly, but we will not promise an approval WGU has not granted.

Start about a year before Clinical Internship I, confirm each candidate meets WGU's eligibility rules before you invest time, and line up two sites rather than one. Because doing all of that alone is hard, many students hand the search to us so a preceptor is secured and the affiliation agreement is moving before week one. Either way, verifying eligibility early is what keeps a term from slipping.

We place them. Unlike a lead-referral site that sells your contact information or hands you a list of names to chase, we identify a specific WGU-approvable preceptor, verify their license and credentials, secure both clinical sites, and coordinate the affiliation agreement through to signature. You pay only once your preceptor and site are confirmed, and you are never charged for a referral that goes nowhere.