Bradley University NP clinicals for Mississippi nurses
Mississippi gets a YES in every NP column of Bradley University's state table. The twist is the regulator. Visiting nursing schools in Mississippi report to IHL, which oversees the state's universities, instead of to the nursing board, and IHL's look at an outside program's clinicals can take months.
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Bradley's Mississippi row
Bradley's online nursing table, linked from its State Disclosures page, gives Mississippi four YES answers and no footnote. The hour figures below come from the 2026-27 catalog.
| Bradley program | Mississippi | Clinical hours and notes |
|---|---|---|
| Family Nurse Practitioner | Meets | 750 in the course list; program text says 700 |
| Psychiatric Mental Health NP | Meets | 750, up from 600 |
| Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP | Meets | 750; Bradley's online page still says 600 |
| Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP | Meets | 750; Bradley's online page still says 600 |
| MSN Nursing and Healthcare Leadership | Not listed | Absent from the table |
| DNP Nursing Leadership | Not listed | Absent from the table |
The clinical hours page untangles those catalog and website differences track by track.
IHL review: how Mississippi treats visiting nursing schools
In Mississippi, degree programs in nursing answer to IHL, the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning; the Board of Nursing's approval work is limited to practical nursing. When an outside school's students do clinical work in the state, IHL applies Mississippi's own standards to that school, and it treats a practicum held in Mississippi as the school being physically present there.
That finding triggers IHL Nursing Education's review, which can last three months. Its procedures manual, in Appendix S of the August 2024 edition, wants schools run from outside Mississippi to file for review at least four months ahead. Separately, the school must be authorized for distance education, through SARA, which Bradley belongs to, or for non-SARA schools through MCCA. Nothing Bradley publishes shows whether it has cleared the IHL review, so ask your academic advisor before you lock in a Mississippi site.
One IHL standard mirrors Bradley's own: an APRN student in a clinical course needs clean RN licensure in whatever state hosts the clinical.
Collaborative practice and where to look
AANP classes Mississippi as reduced practice. The board must approve each NP's collaboration with a Mississippi-licensed physician or dentist. Bradley's own list of who may precept is on preceptor requirements.
Jackson is the largest metro, Gulfport-Biloxi comes next, and Hattiesburg is smaller; the state's northwest corner belongs to the Memphis metro. For orientation, there is UMMC, the state's academic medical center (University of Mississippi Medical Center); Forrest Health and North Mississippi Health Services, as well as Singing River Health System; and Baptist Memorial Health Care, headquartered in Memphis, which counts Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson as one of its Mississippi hospitals. Naming them implies nothing about hosting Bradley students.
Licensing, the compact and the Memphis question
Mississippi's compact membership began on January 19, 2018. The Board reads the compact this way: keep your declared residence in a compact state and your license clean, and you may practice in any member state, with no employer entitled to demand an extra license from the state where you work. None of that reaches Illinois, which stays outside the compact (license rules).
For north Mississippi the harder question is Memphis. A preceptor across the line there is in Tennessee, the one state where Bradley's table reads NO for every NP track. Bradley's handbook sends any bordering-state rotation to your advisor or the department chair before the semester begins, so float a Tennessee site early and keep a Mississippi option alive. The Tennessee guide explains that state's row.
FNP students should also block out October for the two-day FNP Bootcamp in Peoria, which comes before NUR 679.
Why Mississippi's Bradley students choose us
We work your part of Mississippi, from the Gulf Coast to the Tennessee line, looking for preceptors who fit your Bradley course, and builds a DocuSign packet with the license, CV, malpractice coverage and site address all in order. Because the IHL review can take months, we settle sites early and line up each next practicum while the current one runs. Share your county and specialty in the form below and the search begins.
Questions Bradley students ask
Who approves out-of-state nursing clinicals in Mississippi?
IHL does, not the nursing board. It reviews visiting programs that bring clinical students into Mississippi, while the Board of Nursing's approvals concern practical nursing programs. Expect the review to take as long as three months, with IHL asking for requests four months in advance. Because the school files the request, so ask your advisor where Bradley stands before committing to a site.
Can I do Bradley clinicals in Memphis if I live in Mississippi?
Memphis sits in Tennessee, which Bradley's table marks NO for all four NP tracks, and a rotation in any bordering state goes to your advisor or the department chair before the semester. Bradley has not published how it treats Tennessee sites for residents of other states, so raise it early and keep a Mississippi site as your first plan.
Does my Mississippi multistate license work for Bradley clinicals?
For clinicals in Mississippi it is exactly the license you need, and while Mississippi stays your primary residence it also carries into other compact states. Illinois is the gap, since it never joined the compact. Bradley and IHL agree on the basic test: an active, clean license good in the state where your clinical hours are logged.
Can a Mississippi nurse enroll in Bradley's AGPCNP?
Bradley's table says yes, marking Mississippi YES for the AG primary care column along with FNP, PMHNP and AG acute care. The catalog places the AGPCNP practicums in primary care or outpatient settings and adds a skills bootcamp before NUR 668; the MSN AGPCNP page covers the courses and the hour conflict.
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Last checked 2026-09-25
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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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