The placement desk built for FNU students

Who we are

We are a placement desk built around one problem: getting an FNU student a preceptor and site that fit their track and that their RCF can accept. We work independently of Frontier Nursing University, and every placement we take on is shaped by FNU's own rules.

You work with placement advisors at our placement desk, who know FNU's clinical path in detail: the Community Map, the CSAF, Clinical Credentialing and the Clinical Bound gate. Everything official runs between you and FNU, and we make sure you arrive at each step with what it asks for.

Why FNU students look for outside help

FNU's model puts the search in the student's hands. Its admissions page says students “are responsible for securing their clinical site,” and its catalog describes a long tradition of students identifying their own sites. FNU backs that with Clinical Advisors, the Community Map and more than 50 Regional Clinical Faculty across the country.

That support is real, and many students need nothing more. But FNU's students study at a distance from almost every state, and FNU itself notes that rotations can be competitive in certain regions. A midwifery student hours from the nearest CNM, or a PMHNP student in an area with few psychiatric prescribers, can work every lead and still come up short as Clinical Bound approaches. Students in that position are who a placement service is for.

We lay out the three routes fairly on FNU support vs your network vs hired help.

What we do

• Search for a preceptor and clinical site that fit your FNU track, with in-person care near you as the main route.
• Consider telehealth only where your course allows it and within FNU's caps for your track.
• Check each lead against FNU's published preceptor rules before you commit, including the family and ownership rule and your RN license in that state.
• Help you prepare what goes into the CSAF and what Clinical Credentialing needs from the site and preceptor.
• Search again if a preceptor drops out before or during your practicum.
• Give you a written quote and terms before you commit.

The order we work in, matched to FNU's own steps, is on how it works.

How we work inside FNU's approval path

• Build every search around FNU's review. Each lead is measured against the standards your RCF and the credentialing team apply before you hear its name.
• Plan the calendar around credentialing. FNU sets the pace of its own review, so the search starts early enough for that review to finish before Clinical Bound.
• Keep you in charge of your record. The CSAF goes in from your own Community Map account, with every preceptor and site detail gathered beforehand.
• Keep your relationship with FNU direct. You talk with your Clinical Advisor and RCF yourself, briefed on exactly what to ask.
• Screen out any lead FNU's rules exclude, such as a relative's practice, telehealth beyond your cap, or an NP rotation in New York.
• Write each quote for the student asking, based on your track, hours and location.

That is the standard we hold ourselves to, and our guide to choosing a placement service sets out the rest of it.

How we keep our FNU information straight

Our FNU pages are built from FNU's own published sources: the current catalog, frontier.edu and the public pages of FNU's portal. Each page lists the official sources it relied on and the date it was last checked. Anything a student forum says is labeled as a student report, never as FNU policy.

FNU's public sources don't always agree. The catalog and the website differ on a few limits, such as the maximum weekly clinic hours in midwifery and the number of sites allowed in the WHNP track. Where that happens we say so and send you to your RCF, whose answer outranks ours.

Some things FNU doesn't publish at all, such as the preceptor honorarium amount or the full list of documents Clinical Credentialing collects. For those, we name the FNU person or page that holds the answer.

Who we work with

We work with FNU students in nurse-midwifery, FNP, WHNP and PMHNP, in the MSN or the post-graduate certificate, and with DNP students weighing a project site. Students reach us at different points: during didactic terms, when Clinical Bound is close, or mid-practicum after a preceptor leaves.

We also talk with clinicians who have been asked to precept an FNU student and want to know what that involves; precepting FNU students is written for them. To reach the placement desk, use the form below, the chat, or the WhatsApp and text buttons, or go to the contact page.