AGACNP preceptor support for Bellarmine University students

• Program: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• School: Bellarmine University
• Directory location: Louisville, Kentucky
• Verified pathways: MSN and post-graduate certificate
• Official evidence checked: July 21, 2026
• Clinical population: adults and older adults with complex, acute, critical, or unstable conditions
• Approval authority: the student's current program

The evidence explains why Bellarmine University appears in this directory. It cannot be stretched into a claim about how the school arranges placements, which clinicians it accepts, how long review takes, or how many hours a particular student needs.

Official Bellarmine University sources checked July 21, 2026 support the MSN and post-graduate certificate pathway record. Public program evidence answers whether the pathway is represented here, but the program must answer the separate questions about objectives, geography, hours, eligibility, and approval.

• Official AGACNP source 1, post-graduate certificate: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (GR.PMAGAC.CERT Program | Bellarmine University Catalog).
• Official AGACNP source 2, MSN: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (Master of Science in Nursing).
• Official AGACNP source 3, MSN: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (GR.MSN.AGAC Program | Bellarmine University Catalog).

These citations are included for verification, not as an endorsement of our service. Read the current official page and ask the program to confirm any requirement that affects the proposed preceptor or site.

The right match gives the student supervised work with acute, critical, and medically complex adults and older adults. Population focus, acuity, and clinical tasks all matter. A program may define a place for adolescents, but that boundary must come from the student's current requirements rather than a generic assumption.

High-acuity opportunities often sit in ICU, progressive care, emergency, inpatient medicine, and specialty consult services. The best category depends on the gap in the student's approved plan. We do not promise that a named service, facility, or site will satisfy Bellarmine University before review.

The record identifies MSN and post-graduate certificate. Those credential labels help route the inquiry, but they do not reveal the student's entry point, course sequence, remaining hours, or clinical dates. Bring the exact course and current plan of study into the search so a pathway label is never treated as a policy.

Use a one-page clinical brief to explain the remaining need: course, dates, adult-gerontology population, acuity, setting, required experiences, and credential criteria. A specific brief respects the preceptor's time and gives the program a clearer proposal to evaluate.

Hour language needs careful attribution. NTF recommends at least 750 direct patient care hours for an NP track, while ANCC and AACN Certification Corporation eligibility sources set a minimum of 500 faculty-supervised clinical hours. Only the program can translate those standards into this student's current course and remaining need.

Use the AGACNP clinical hours guide for national context and the preceptor requirements guide for screening questions. Neither guide replaces the program's current instructions.

Preceptor screening asks two separate questions: is the clinician qualified for acute adult and older-adult care, and does the program permit that person for this course? We can gather licensure, certification, specialty, setting, and role details. Only Bellarmine University can make the approval decision.

Start from the geography the program approves, not an assumption based on the Louisville campus listing. Acute capacity may be concentrated in larger referral centers, while a student's allowed area may be broader or narrower. Every proposed site still needs program review.

Use the AGACNP placement guide for Kentucky for broader ICU, step-down, emergency, and inpatient context. Any actual candidate and site must still pass the student's current program review.

• The exact course, clinical objectives, term dates, and remaining approved hours
• The approved geography, adult-gerontology population, patient acuity, and setting
• The proposed clinician's license, certification, specialty, acute role, and availability
• The site's service line, patient mix, and opportunities tied to the objectives
• Every current preceptor, site, compliance, and submission form supplied by the program

Give the program a proposal it can evaluate without guessing: who the clinician is, where the person practices, which adults and older adults are served, what the student would do, when supervision is available, and which current forms apply. Formal review remains entirely with the program.

Do the confirmation work before outreach: course and dates, approved location, clinical objectives, setting and acuity, remaining hours, candidate credentials, and required forms. We use those facts to source carefully and submit any potential match for program review.

AGACNP Preceptor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bellarmine University. We cannot guarantee that a preceptor or site will be available, that paperwork will finish by a particular date, or that the program will approve a proposal. A request starts sourcing only.