A preceptor placement desk built for Bradley University nursing students
We find preceptors and clinical sites for Bradley University's online nursing students, check each one against Bradley's published rules, and prepare the preceptor details before Bradley's packet deadline. Everything on this site is written from Bradley's own catalog, handbook and policies, with older sources dated and conflicts shown.
Get your placement plan
Tell us your Bradley program and where you live. A placement advisor replies with the preceptor and site options that fit your course.
Why a desk built around Bradley
Bradley's clinical process has its own vocabulary and its own clock. Preceptor packets travel through DocuSign and are due halfway through the semester before each course. Each track has its own clinical packet in MyOnline. Clearance runs through Viewpoint Screening by midterm of your first semester, hours go into Typhon within seven days, FNP students plan around a two-day bootcamp in Peoria each October, and the AG tracks now have a skills bootcamp of their own.
Getting those details right is what keeps a semester on schedule, so our desk is organized around them. Your placement advisor knows which Bradley course needs which setting, which states Bradley's table covers for your track, and which document your preceptor needs to have ready. The Bradley systems themselves are mapped on our clinical systems hub.
How we see Bradley's model
Bradley's online programs are built for working nurses. You choose your preceptors, train near home, and fit clinicals around a job and a family while Bradley approves every preceptor and facility. That flexibility is one of the program's real strengths, and we respect it.
The hard part is the search itself: the calls, the unanswered emails, the practices that stopped taking students, the hospital that needs its own agreement. We take that part on so the flexibility works the way Bradley intends. You still meet each preceptor and make the choice, and Bradley still makes every approval decision. Nothing about the process changes except how much of the searching lands on you.
How we work with you
Each student works with one placement advisor from first message to final practicum, backed by the placement desk. Your advisor learns your track, your schedule and your area, and plans your whole clinical sequence rather than one course at a time. Here is what that looks like in practice.
- Searches matched to the course: primary care, acute care, mental health, nurse leadership, community health or a DNP practice mentor
- Preceptors screened against Bradley's published rules before you ever speak with them
- Preceptor documents gathered so your DocuSign packet is complete on the first submission
- Next practicum planned while the current one runs
- Straight answers on timing, including when a deadline is tight
Where our Bradley facts come from
Every Bradley rule on this site traces to a Bradley source: the 2026-27 catalog, the Graduate Student Handbook revised in May 2026, the Graduate Clinical Requirements Policy, the Graduate Professional Behaviors Policy, Bradley's online program and welcome pages, and the state table linked from Bradley's State Disclosures page.
Some of the most detailed preceptor guidance Bradley has published comes from its June 2017 preceptor webinars, which are still posted. We label those rules with their date and put the current rule first. Where Bradley's own sources disagree, such as 600 versus 750 hours for the AG tracks or 700 versus 750 for FNP, we show both and send you to your advisor. Where Bradley is silent, we say so and point you to the person who can answer. The totals for every track are on the clinical hours planner.
Who we serve
Our students are working registered nurses in Bradley's online graduate programs, many in Illinois and the Midwest and many further afield in the states Bradley's table covers. They include FNP, PMHNP, AGACNP and AGPCNP students at the MSN, DNP and certificate levels, nurse leaders in the MSN Nursing and Healthcare Leadership and the DNP Nursing Leadership, and RN-entry students heading into NUR 407.
Each program has its own page with courses, hours and preceptor needs, gathered on the programs hub. State-by-state guidance on licenses, compacts and local health systems is on the state guides. Illinois students also get dedicated guides to finding preceptors around Peoria and Chicago.
What you can count on
We present preceptors who meet Bradley's published rules for your track. We keep you in charge of every Bradley submission, so your record and your relationship with your faculty stay yours. We follow Bradley's conduct rules: preceptors outside your family, and practicum time kept separate from paid work. And we stay reachable through the whole course, with a replacement search ready if a preceptor steps away.
If you are ready to plan, send your track, city and next course through the contact page, and your advisor will reply with a first read on your timeline. If you precept and would like to host a Bradley student, see precepting a Bradley student.
Questions Bradley students ask
Who will I actually work with?
Your own placement advisor, supported by the placement desk. Your advisor handles your search from the first message, keeps notes on your track and schedule, and stays your contact through each practicum so you never have to explain your situation twice.
Do you work with preceptors as well as students?
Yes. Nurse practitioners, physicians and nurse leaders who would like to host a Bradley student can reach the placement desk directly. We explain what Bradley's preceptor packet asks for, which courses need which settings, and how the hours are logged, before any student is introduced.
Where do your Bradley facts come from?
From Bradley's own pages: the current catalog, the Graduate Student Handbook, Bradley's clinical and conduct policies, its online program and welcome pages, and its state disclosures. Each page on this site lists the Bradley sources it relies on, and older material is dated.
How do I start?
Use the form on any page or the contact page. Send your track, your city, your approved state and the next course you need covered. Your placement advisor replies with next steps and a quote for your plan.
Related pages
Last checked 2026-09-25
We check these pages against Bradley's own catalog, online program pages and Graduate Student Handbook. Your clinical packet, course faculty and academic advisor have the final word.
Bradley lets you choose your preceptors. We find the ones worth choosing.
Tell us your Bradley track, your city and your next practicum course. We line up preceptors who fit the NUR course and gather the license, CV and malpractice details the DocuSign packet asks for, well before the midterm of the semester before you start.
- Preceptors matched to the course: primary care for FNP and AGPCNP, acute care teams for AGACNP, mental health settings for PMHNP
- Preceptor license, CV, malpractice coverage and the site address ready for the packet
- Every practicum in your sequence planned together, close to home in your approved state
Start your placement plan
Track, city and next practicum is all we need to begin.