Bradley University's online NP tracks from Alaska
Bradley University's state table answers meets for Alaska in the FNP, PMHNP, AGACNP and AGPCNP columns, so every online NP specialty is open to you from Anchorage to Fairbanks. Alaska then hands you a personal task: before clinical hours start, you register the preceptorship itself with the Alaska Board of Nursing, and with Alaska outside the compact, you train on an Alaska RN license.
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Reading Alaska's row
Open the licensure table Bradley posts through its State Disclosures page and Alaska's entry is plain: four NP columns, four meets, nothing in the footnotes. Neither leadership degree shows up in any state's row, Alaska included, so a nurse manager weighing the MSN Nursing and Healthcare Leadership or the DNP Nursing Leadership should put the Alaska question to Bradley directly.
| Program | Bradley's answer | Alaska note |
|---|---|---|
| FNP (MSN, BSN-to-DNP, certificate) | Meets | Primary care hours across four practicums |
| PMHNP | Meets | Mental health settings after the simulation course |
| AGACNP | Meets | Acute care preceptors |
| AGPCNP | Meets | Clinic and outpatient preceptors |
| MSN Nursing and Healthcare Leadership | Not listed | Missing from every state row |
| DNP Nursing Leadership | Not listed | Missing from every state row |
Registering your preceptorship with the Board
Alaska puts a clinical step on you personally, not only on the school. Per the Board of Nursing's FAQ, an APRN student whose program is headquartered elsewhere must hold a Board registration before seeing patients in Alaska as a student; the regulation is 12 AAC 44.460. You submit form 08-4253, titled APRN Preceptorship Registration, and cover its nonrefundable fee. The Board looks for four things.
- Your RN licenseOne in good standing from Alaska or any other state satisfies the registration; Bradley's own license rule, below, asks more.
- Proof you are enrolledEvidence that you are a current Bradley APRN student.
- Signed four-way agreementThe Board-approved arrangement tying together Bradley, the facility, you and your preceptor.
- The clockRegistration lapses after 12 months or when the preceptorship finishes, whichever is sooner, and one renewal is allowed.
Each Bradley NP track lists 750 clinical hours in the 2026-27 catalog, spread over several courses, so set every registration's end date against your clinical hours plan. If a preceptor or site changes, ask the Board whether you need a fresh registration.
Registration needs the signed preceptorship agreement, so an Alaska preceptor has to say yes long before your first shift.
Full practice, and the Board's preceptor standard
On AANP's map Alaska is full practice: NPs work on their own license, with no mandated physician agreement. The registration form's preceptor is a physician or an APRN; their license or practice privilege has to be active and unencumbered, their focus close to yours, and they personally oversee, teach and grade your work. Bradley's narrower list is on preceptor requirements.
Anchorage, a metro of roughly 406,000 in the 2025 Census estimates, gives you three large hospitals to research: the tribally run Alaska Native Medical Center, Providence Alaska Medical Center and HCA's Alaska Regional Hospital. In the Valley, the Palmer hospital is Mat-Su Regional; in the Interior, Foundation Health Partners owns Tanana Valley Clinic as well as Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. All of these are search territory, not sites with a known Bradley agreement.
Bradley carries an Alaska duty of its own. Section 12 AAC 44.090(h) requires an Alaska RN license of any out-of-state instructor whose grading of Alaska clinical coursework, added to other in-state nursing education, tops 20 working days per licensing period.
Licensing: Alaska stays outside the compact
No multistate license reaches Alaska. NCSBN's map records no pending compact bill there, while the Board itself describes HB 131 and SB 124 as bills awaiting action in 2025-2026; the sources differ on the bills, not on the result. Bradley wants an active, unencumbered RN license where each clinical course happens, so Alaska clinicals run on an Alaska license, as the RN license page explains.
Alaska has not joined the APRN Compact either. If an FNP or AG preceptor sees many patients by video, ask course faculty how Bradley's unpublished Telemedicine policy guidelines count those hours; PMHNP students should ask as well, because the handbook's line names only FNP and the AG tracks.
One trip belongs on an FNP student's calendar: the two-day October bootcamp on Bradley's Peoria campus before NUR 679, a long journey from Alaska that is easier when clinical weeks are planned around it.
Why Alaska's Bradley students choose us
In Alaska, distance and a second approval layer make a thorough search pay off. Your placement advisor targets preceptors near you whose practice fits the Bradley course, then collects the license, CV, malpractice coverage and site address the DocuSign packet needs. Because the Board registration rests on a signed agreement, we secure the preceptor's commitment first, so your registration and Bradley's packet move together, and FNP clinical weeks are mapped around the October trip. Send us your region and track with the form below.
Questions Bradley students ask
Is an Alaska RN license required for Bradley clinicals there?
Yes, in practice. Bradley's rule ties your RN license, active and unencumbered, to whatever state hosts the clinical course, and with Alaska outside the Nurse Licensure Compact, only an Alaska-issued license qualifies. The Board's registration takes a license from another state, but Bradley's rule is the one your clinicals answer to.
When does an Alaska preceptorship registration expire?
At 12 months or at the close of the preceptorship, whichever arrives first, and it can be renewed one time. A Bradley NP track spreads its clinical hours over several courses, so one registration may not span the whole sequence. Ask the Board whether a new preceptor or site calls for a new registration.
Can an Alaska physician precept a Bradley NP student?
Alaska's form accepts an APRN or physician preceptor with an active, unencumbered license and a comparable practice focus. Bradley accepts MDs and DOs too, while its 2017 preceptor webinar expected most hours with NPs and ruled out physician assistants, clinical nurse specialists and clinical nurse leaders. Your track's clinical packet in MyOnline holds the current rule.
Is Bradley's online PMHNP open to Alaska residents?
Bradley's current table marks its PMHNP as meeting Alaska's licensure education requirements. In the 2026-27 catalog the first clinical course, NUR 684, counts simulation hours, though Bradley's online page calls them preceptor hours; mental health practicums follow in NUR 685 to NUR 687. The table is undated, so check it again before applying.
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
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