AGACNP preceptor support for Stony Brook University students

• Program: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• School: Stony Brook University
• Directory location: Stony Brook, New York
• Verified pathways: MSN, DNP, 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

Current official pages support the program and pathway labels below. They do not establish the student's exact curriculum or the school's clinical approval process, so the search should pause until those requirements are confirmed directly with the program.

As of July 21, 2026, the official links below identify MSN, DNP, and post-graduate certificate for the AGACNP specialty at Stony Brook University. 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, MSN: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (Master of Science, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP)).
• Official AGACNP source 2, post-graduate certificate: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (Stony Brook School of Nursing).
• Official AGACNP source 3, DNP: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)).

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.

Depending on the objectives, the search may include ICU or critical care, step-down or progressive care, emergency care, hospitalist or inpatient medicine, trauma and surgical services, or an inpatient specialty such as cardiology, pulmonology, or nephrology. No setting is automatically acceptable. The program must decide whether the patient mix, acuity, clinician role, and available activities fit the course.

For this record, the official evidence names MSN, DNP, and post-graduate certificate. 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.

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.

Two national benchmarks are often confused: the NTF recommendation of at least 750 direct patient care hours per NP population track and the 500 faculty-supervised clinical hour floor used in certification eligibility. A student's program can require or distribute hours differently. Ask Stony Brook University to confirm the actual AGACNP total and approved balance.

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.

A prospective preceptor is generally a board-certified acute-care nurse practitioner or an appropriately licensed physician whose current inpatient or acute role matches the objectives. Certification, licensure, experience, specialty, site, and relationship to the student may all matter, but Stony Brook University decides which candidate is eligible. We document the candidate for that review rather than declaring approval.

Start from the geography the program approves, not an assumption based on the Stony Brook 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.

For wider geographic context, read the AGACNP placement guide for New York. It describes the state's acute-care landscape without assigning a policy to Stony Brook 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

An approval-ready proposal identifies the clinician's role, credentials, specialty, practice setting, patient population, availability, and connection to the course objectives. It also carries the forms supplied by the student. This organization supports review but does not replace any contract, compliance step, authorization check, or decision the program may require.

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.

AGACNP Preceptor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Stony Brook 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.