AGACNP preceptor support for University of Kentucky students

• Program: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• School: University of Kentucky
• Directory location: Lexington, Kentucky
• Verified pathways: MSN and 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

This snapshot reports only what the linked official program evidence supports. It does not assign a delivery format, clinical sequence, hour total, placement responsibility, preceptor rule, or approval timeline to University of Kentucky. Confirm each of those details with the current program.

We verified the listed MSN and DNP evidence on July 21, 2026. Each link belongs to the institution or its official catalog and names the AGACNP specialty. The student's present course materials still control the clinical request.

• Official AGACNP source 1, DNP: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (BSN-DNP Option | College of Nursing).
• Official AGACNP source 2, MSN and DNP: Official page explicitly identifies the AGACNP specialty (MSN-DNP Option | College of Nursing).

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 University of Kentucky before review.

A MSN and DNP 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.

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.

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.

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 University of Kentucky decides which candidate is eligible. We document the candidate for that review rather than declaring approval.

Geography matters because high-acuity services cluster unevenly, but the school address does not settle where a practicum can occur. Confirm approved states and travel limits, then compare the remaining objectives with the available ICU, step-down, emergency, hospitalist, and specialty landscape.

For wider geographic context, read the AGACNP placement guide for Kentucky. It describes the state's acute-care landscape without assigning a policy to University of Kentucky 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.

Bring the current syllabus or checklist, the student's schedule and geography, the adult-gerontology acute-care objectives, the remaining approved hours, and the candidate forms. That evidence keeps the search aligned and gives the program a clear proposal to consider.

AGACNP Preceptor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by University of Kentucky. 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.