Your Jax State preceptor and clinical site, lined up for the semester ahead.
Whether JSU helps with your placement or you are starting the search yourself, we find a preceptor and site that meet JSU's rules. We match your practicum or residency to a clinician near home and gather what JSU's faculty need to clear them, so the semester starts with the paperwork already done.
Start your placement plan
Your JSU program, the town you live in and the semester of your next practicum. A placement advisor replies with preceptors and sites that fit.
What JSU publishes, and where we come in
JSU's catalog pairs every NP practicum with a lecture course, its DNP timeline says residency students are paired with a preceptor and clinical site in late May, and its handbook wants malpractice coverage approved before anyone contacts a site. What it lays out less clearly is how the search itself runs from one semester to the next.
That search is what we do. For each practicum, from FNP 7869 to the last DNP residency, we find a clinician who fits and prepare the license, certification and site details JSU's faculty review. They clear the placement; we make sure everything in front of them is complete.
JSU's handbook asks for malpractice coverage to be approved before you contact any practicum or residency site.
Four stops from the first call to cleared hours
Each one matches a step in JSU's own clinical sequence.
Your JSU program, the practicum or residency ahead, where you live and how far you can drive.
Clinicians who fit: family practice, adult-gerontology acute care, a DNP project site or a teaching mentor.
License, certification and site details ready for JSU, with your own CastleBranch items in order.
Practicum hours logged once JSU clears the placement, with a backup ready if a preceptor steps away.
Pick your JSU program
Your clinical courses and hours, who can precept you, where, and when to start looking. From JSU's own catalog and nursing pages.
- Who precepts
- A licensed preceptor fit for family practice across the lifespan, at a site JSU's faculty clear
- Where
- Near home, in Alabama or one of the four other states the NP tracks accept
- Start looking
- Practicum I runs in spring only, in the second year of study
- Who precepts
- An acute care preceptor for late adolescent, adult and older adult patients
- Where
- Hospital and acute care settings near home
- Start looking
- Spring of the second year, then four semesters in a row
- Who precepts
- One preceptor who can stay with your project for the whole residency
- Where
- A consistent clinical site for 16 months
- Start looking
- Pairing in late May during DNP 8796, or a smaller August track
- Who precepts
- A population health or public health leader who can host your practicum
- Where
- Community, public health and health system settings near you
- Start looking
- NU 5980 in summer, NU 5985 the following fall
- Who precepts
- An experienced nurse educator in a collegiate program
- Where
- A school of nursing or teaching setting convenient for you
- Start looking
- NU 5982 in the fifth semester on JSU's sample plan
How JSU runs its clinicals
Named the way JSU names them, from the 2026-27 catalog, the handbooks and the program pages.
Guides by JSU program
Every JSU nursing program with practicum or residency hours, and the preceptor it calls for.
The practicums and residencies
Hours, settings and preceptor fit for each JSU clinical course.
Preceptors near you
From the Jacksonville campus to the Gulf Coast, region by region.
Before you start
Can you help if JSU is already working on my placement?
Yes. Whether JSU is helping with your site or you are searching on your own, we look for a preceptor and site that fit your course and JSU's rules, and we keep a backup ready. See the placement process.
Which states can apply to JSU's nurse practitioner tracks?
JSU says only residents of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee are eligible to apply to the BSN-DNP NP tracks. The admission states guide explains what that means for clinicals.
Does JSU have an MSN nurse practitioner program?
Not as a separate track. JSU teaches nurse practitioners inside the BSN-DNP, where students earn an MSN along the way after the fourth NP practicum. See the BSN-DNP FNP guide.
What do we actually do for JSU students?
We find clinicians and sites that fit your JSU course, collect the license, certification and site details JSU's faculty review, and keep a backup ready. The steps are on the process page.
How long does a JSU DNP residency need the same preceptor?
JSU's DNP timeline says students need a consistent preceptor and clinical site for 16 months across the residency courses. The residency pairing guide covers the late-May and August tracks.
Whether JSU helps or you start alone, we find the preceptor.
Tell us your JSU program, your next practicum or residency and the town you train near. We find preceptors and sites that fit the course and gather what JSU's faculty need to clear them, early enough for the semester.
- Preceptors matched to the course: family practice across the lifespan, adult-gerontology acute care, DNP residencies
- License, certification and site details ready for JSU's clearance, with your CastleBranch and malpractice items in order
- Across Alabama and in Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee
Start your placement plan
Your program, your town and your next clinical semester is all we need to begin.