Credentialing and approvals at Bradley: who signs off on what

Four gates between you and hour one

Treat approval as four separate checks that all have to turn green. Your personal clearance comes first: the background check, drug screen, immunizations, physical and insurance under the Graduate Clinical Requirements Policy. Next is the preceptor, approved through the DocuSign packet. Then the facility, cleared by a clinical agency agreement. Last is the Typhon record that ties your preceptor and site to the course.

Each gate has its own owner and its own clock, and a single open gate stops the whole practicum. That is how a student can hold an approved packet and still be unable to start, or be fully cleared with nowhere approved to go. The roles below carry the titles Bradley uses; its public pages identify staff by role, and so does this guide.

The approval sequence, step by step

1. Personal clearance by first-semester midtermYour items go into Viewpoint Screening, and the Department of Nursing reviews them with the clinical coordinator. Answer any notice within 24 hours.
2. Preceptor decisionYour DocuSign packet is reviewed, and the answer comes back as approved or not approved.
3. Facility clearanceThe agency or affiliation agreement for the site is completed or confirmed. A site with its own contract can take longer, so this step often runs in parallel with the packet. See the clinical agency agreement.
4. Typhon requestYou add the preceptor and agency in Typhon; course faculty approve it, and the record then fills in on later logs.
5. Term startPracticum hours begin only once the scheduled semester is underway, never earlier, and each day is logged within seven days.

Who to ask about what

• Clearance items, a Viewpoint Screening notice or a registration hold: the Office of Online and Distance Education.
• Whether a preceptor or setting fits a course: course faculty, before the packet goes in.
• Packet status or a facility's contract: the Office of Online and Distance Education.
• A move, a bordering-state rotation or a deployment: your academic advisor or the department chair, before the semester.
• Anything else, or no idea who: your Student Support Coach.

Bradley's public pages list roles rather than names, and the contact routes for each sit in MyOnline and on your track's welcome site. Asking the right office first usually saves a week of forwarded messages, which matters most in the month before a packet deadline. Keep your questions short and include your track, course number and term.

How we clear the path to every approval

Approvals move faster when what reaches Bradley is complete and correct, and that is our focus. We confirm each preceptor's credential, setting and license standing before introducing them, collect the packet documents, and gather the facility details the agreement needs, so the clinical coordinator, the agreement office and course faculty each receive a clean file.

We track your four gates alongside you and flag whichever one is lagging, whether it is a packet deadline, a facility contract or a Typhon entry waiting on faculty. Bradley makes every decision; our work makes each decision easy to reach. When a preceptor withdraws, we start the replacement search right away. See how it works or reach your placement advisor through the form below.