AGACNP preceptor support for Georgia State University students

• Program: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• School: Georgia State University
• Directory location: Atlanta, Georgia
• Verified pathways: 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

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.

The directory uses the official AGACNP pages available on July 21, 2026. They support post-graduate certificate as the pathway set for this record. Any detail that is not explicit in those pages remains unclaimed and must be confirmed with the program.

• Official AGACNP source 1, post-graduate certificate: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (Post-Master’s Certificate Program - Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions).

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 placement spine is adult-gerontology acute care, not primary care. The experience should expose the student to adults and older adults with complex, acute, critical, or unstable conditions and support the competencies named by the approved course. Adolescents belong in the plan only if the program explicitly places them inside the student's population scope.

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.

A post-graduate certificate listing tells us which AGACNP route appears in the official source set. It does not tell us where a student may complete clinical work or what a program will approve. Those answers belong in the current syllabus, handbook, and direct program guidance.

Course objectives are the bridge between a pathway label and a workable placement. Pair each objective with the patient population, acuity, setting, and supervised activity it requires, then ask the program whether the proposed combination is eligible before treating it as final.

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 Georgia State University can make the approval decision.

Atlanta, Georgia 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.

For wider geographic context, read the AGACNP placement guide for Georgia. It describes the state's acute-care landscape without assigning a policy to Georgia State University or claiming that a named hospital accepts students.

• 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

Before submission, assemble the candidate's license and certification details, current acute role, site and service, population and acuity, schedule, and fit with each objective. The program may request additional documents or decline the proposal. We never treat a complete file as a guarantee.

Once the current checklist is clear, send the course, term dates, approved geography, required setting, patient population, remaining hours, candidate criteria, and forms. Our placement process uses that brief to look for a possible match before the program evaluates it.

We do not represent Georgia State University and have no authority to approve a clinician, site, schedule, or clinical plan. Our independent role is limited to searching and documenting a possible match. Availability, review time, and the final program decision cannot be guaranteed.