What Does AGACNP Preceptor Placement Cost?

An AG-ACNP preceptor matching service is priced against the difficulty of the search, and acute-care placement is one of the harder searches there is. The price of a placement reflects the program, the specific rotation, the number of hours, and how hard the setting is to source and credential in your area. An ICU slot in an underserved region is a different search from a hospitalist rotation in a major metro, and pricing reflects that.

Rather than advertise a headline number that may not apply to your situation, we give you a clear figure for your specific placement before you commit to anything. We would rather set an accurate expectation than quote a price that does not fit your rotations. When you tell us your school, your city, and the rotations you need, we can price it honestly.

We keep the structure simple and student-friendly, because you are already managing tuition and, often, a clinical job.

• Per placement. We price for the placement you need, sized to your rotation and market, not a vague subscription.
• No fee until matched. You are matched first and pay only once your preceptor and approved site are confirmed. You are not paying for a promise.
• Our fee is for our work. It covers sourcing, vetting, and the credentialing and site-approval legwork. It is never a payment to the preceptor, and paying a preceptor for hours is not something we do or facilitate.
• A clear figure up front. Before you commit, you will know exactly what your placement costs and what it includes.

What the fee does not include is anything the university or hospital charges, your tuition, and any costs of your own such as travel, background checks, or health clearances. Those are the university's and yours; our fee is strictly for the placement work.

You will sometimes see arrangements where a student effectively pays a preceptor for supervised hours. We do not do that, and we would caution you about it. Programs and boards of nursing are increasingly wary of paid-preceptor arrangements, and a placement that depends on paying for hours can create exactly the kind of conflict that gets a site questioned or declined.

Our fee is for the search and the approval work, connecting you with a qualified acute-care preceptor and getting the site ready for the university's and hospital's approval. The value is the sourcing, the vetting, and the time you get back, not access purchased from a clinician. That distinction keeps your placement clean and defensible.

The real cost question is not the placement fee in isolation, it is the fee compared to the cost of not securing an acute-care rotation in time.

A missing ICU or specialty slot does not just inconvenience you: it can add a full term of tuition, delay the advanced role you went back to school for, and cost you the income that role represents. Against that, an early, secured placement is almost always the cheaper path. That is the case for treating placement as something to lock in early rather than gamble on late, which is the whole argument on our how it works page.

When you want a real figure for your situation, tell us your program, your city, and the rotations you need on the contact page and we will give you a clear price with no obligation.