AGACNP preceptor support for California State University, Long Beach students

• Program: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• School: California State University, Long Beach
• Directory location: Long Beach, California
• Verified pathways: DNP
• 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

Treat the pathway list as an evidence boundary, not a summary of school policy. The official pages establish the AGACNP credential routes shown here, while the current handbook and program contact remain the authorities for hours, sites, preceptors, forms, and deadlines.

As of July 21, 2026, the official links below identify DNP for the AGACNP specialty at California State University, Long Beach. That supports directory inclusion and pathway labeling only. It does not authorize us to infer a practicum rule from a degree name.

• Official AGACNP source 1, DNP: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (BSN-DNP Program | California State University Long Beach).

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.

An acute practicum can be distributed across critical care, step-down, emergency, hospitalist, trauma, surgical, or focused inpatient teams when the course permits it. The name on the unit door is not enough. The student needs an appropriate adult and older-adult population plus supervised opportunities that map to the required competencies.

For this record, the official evidence names DNP. We use that verified label only to orient the request. The student's own course documents must supply the setting, population, competencies, dates, geography, and preceptor criteria.

Translate each objective into observable acute-care work before outreach. One course may emphasize stabilization and diagnostic reasoning, another may emphasize critical-care management, procedures, specialty consultation, or transitions across levels of care. This objective map helps avoid a willing candidate whose daily role cannot support the required experience.

The hour plan must come from the student's program record. Nationally, NTF recommends a 750-hour direct patient care minimum for an NP population track, and the certification bodies publish a 500-hour faculty-supervised eligibility floor. Neither figure is presented here as California State University, Long Beach's rule. Confirm the exact current requirement before sourcing.

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 California State University, Long Beach can make the approval decision.

Long Beach, California identifies the school record, but it does not define a clinical territory. A student may need to consider nearby or more distant acute-care services if the program permits travel. We confirm the allowed location before screening sites so outreach stays inside the student's actual boundaries.

Pair this record with the AGACNP placement guide for California when thinking about travel and setting supply. The guide is not a list of guaranteed sites, and the program remains the approval authority.

• 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 California State University, Long Beach. 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.