Wyoming clinicals for FNU students

How a Wyoming site gets cleared

The Board's Chapter 6 rules treat post-licensure programs (APRN, DNP, MSN and RN-to-BSN) differently from pre-licensure ones. Here is how that sits alongside FNU's own process.

1. You secure a preceptorFNU expects you to find and confirm your own preceptor, with help from Clinical Advisors and the Community Map.
2. CSAF and RCF reviewYour CSAF goes in via the Community Map, and your Regional Clinical Faculty member reviews and accepts the site.
3. Program registrationWyoming requires every out-of-state program to be registered with the Wyoming Department of Education or approved through NC-SARA. FNU is an approved SARA institution.
4. Written notice to the BoardPost-licensure programs don't need Board approval but must notify the Board in writing when a student will do a clinical learning experience in Wyoming. The Board supplies a sample cover letter.
5. Facility contractBefore clinicals start, the program signs a written contract with the facility and keeps a copy for the Board. At FNU, Clinical Credentialing handles affiliation agreements.

The notice and contract are FNU's to handle, not yours. Because they touch your start date, ask your Clinical Advisor to confirm the Wyoming notice has gone in for your site.

Small towns and two FNU rules

By 2025 Census estimates, Cheyenne is Wyoming's largest metro at 102,938 people, then Casper at 80,526; Gillette's micropolitan area has 48,145. Living outside those three puts your search in smaller communities, squarely where FNU's mission points: rural and underserved care.

Two FNU rules can bite in a small town. A practice a relative or housemate owns or runs can't be your site, and a relative can't precept you. And if the nearest practice is your employer, check your course syllabus and program guidelines, because FNU wants your paid role and your student role kept clearly apart. See clinicals where you work.

Hospitals worth asking about

The larger hospitals include Cheyenne Regional Medical Center; Banner Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, part of Arizona-based Banner Health; Campbell County Health in Gillette; Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie, a UCHealth affiliate; and Sheridan Memorial Hospital. Use them as leads, not as sites known to take FNU students.

The Community Map shows Wyoming preceptors who have hosted FNU students. A site near the Colorado or Montana line may bring a second state into your plan; both are compact states too, so a multistate license covers either.

Your license and Wyoming's compacts

Wyoming's membership in the Nurse Licensure Compact took effect January 19, 2018, so a multistate license issued by any other member state works for in-person clinicals; without one, get a Wyoming RN license first. Telehealth visits need licensing where each patient lives, within FNU's cap for your track. Wyoming has also enacted the APRN Compact (Wyo. Stat. Title 33, Chapter 21, Article 3), one of five states, but it won't operate until seven enact it. More in RN licenses for clinicals.

Midwifery students in Wyoming

FNU midwifery plans need 40 births, at least eight of them in a hospital, and 40 labor management experiences. Outside the larger towns, you may need a hospital in one place and a clinic in another; FNU allows up to four midwifery sites and describes a typical plan as two clinics and two hospitals. For Wyoming's own nurse-midwifery rules, raise any state question with your RCF.

Why Wyoming students choose us

Within reach of your town, we look for a preceptor and site suited to your track, flag the Wyoming notice and contract early so you can ask FNU about timing, and gather with you the preceptor and site information FNU's forms ask for. FNU approves every site and preceptor, with that information already in hand. Send your details through the request form.