Your Rasmussen preceptor, rooted in your own community

Rasmussen has a clinical practicum coordinator who helps you find and secure your clinical site and preceptor, so you are not on your own. Practicums are completed in your own community, possibly at your own organization, which means your options rest on local capacity: when qualified preceptors near you are scarce or a rotation deadline is closing in, the search can stall. That is where we help, adding speed, more local choice, and a backup search that runs alongside the coordinator's process.

The Rasmussen MSN Family Nurse Practitioner specialization requires 600 clinical hours across four sequential preceptor-supervised practicum courses of 150 hours each, completed in your own community under a Master's or Doctoral degree-prepared nurse preceptor.

The Rasmussen MSN Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specialization requires 630 clinical hours, structured as 150, 150, 150, and 180 hours across four practicum courses. That is 30 more than the primary care NP specializations, which each require 600.

A Rasmussen NP preceptor must be a Master's or Doctoral degree-prepared nurse. A cleared background check is also required before a practicum site is approved. We verify preceptor eligibility against Rasmussen's rules before you commit, so an unqualified preceptor does not cost you a term.

No. We help you meet Rasmussen's practicum requirements alongside its coordinator; we do not act for Rasmussen.

Start in your own community, since Rasmussen practicums default to a local, in-person site under a Master's or Doctoral degree-prepared nurse. List the graduate-prepared nurses in your network, confirm the credential and background check, and loop in Rasmussen's clinical practicum coordinator. When your local search comes up short, our preceptor matching service sources and vets a qualified preceptor for you alongside that coordinator.

Yes. Rasmussen Preceptor is an independent preceptor matching service, which means we do the legwork of locating a Master's or Doctoral degree-prepared nurse in your own community, confirming they qualify under Rasmussen's rules, and lining up the clinical site for your practicum.

Yes. Our search starts in your own zip code and widens across your state from there, because Rasmussen practicums are completed locally, possibly at your own organization. Tell us your track, city, and timeline, and we map the qualified, background-cleared preceptors we can reach near you. That local-first focus is the whole point of our matching service.

The fastest path is to start early and run two searches at once, your own network plus a service working in parallel. We move through source, vet, and clear one checkpoint at a time so a thin local market does not stall the term you already paid for. Payment is due only after your preceptor and clinical site are both locked in.

The best way is to confirm the graduate-degree credential early and lock in continuity across all four sequential practicum courses, rather than piecing together short placements. Map your own community first, then bring in our preceptor matching service where your network runs thin. Securing one preceptor who can carry you through 600 or 630 hours makes the whole sequence smoother.

We place, we do not simply hand you a name and disappear. A lead-referrer sells you a contact and leaves the vetting to you, while we source the preceptor, confirm the Master's or Doctoral credential and background clearance, and help set the site paperwork so your practicum actually starts. You pay only when you are matched, never for an unverified referral.