Bradley University NP clinicals in Washington
Yes, and for three tracks the answer is new: Bradley University's current state table marks Washington as meeting licensure education requirements for FNP, PMHNP, AGACNP and AGPCNP, where an archived March 2025 copy said no to all but FNP. Washington also asks more of schools based elsewhere than most states do: a distance program needs its board's sign-off before any student starts clinicals there.
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Washington's row, then and now
Set Bradley's current table beside the copy archived on March 28, 2025, and Washington's PMHNP, AGACNP and AGPCNP cells have all flipped from no to meets; FNP already read meets. Washington is one of nine states that changed. There is no Washington footnote, the table does not split MSN, DNP and certificate levels, and both leadership degrees are left out. Bradley's state disclosures walks through the whole table.
| Bradley program | Bradley's answer for Washington | Note |
|---|---|---|
| FNP | Meets | Unchanged since the 2025 copy |
| PMHNP | Meets | Read no in March 2025 |
| AGACNP | Meets | Read no in March 2025 |
| AGPCNP | Meets | Read no in March 2025 |
| MSN Nursing and Healthcare Leadership | Not listed | The catalog's older Washington note names an MSN Nurse Administrator track |
| DNP Nursing Leadership | Not listed | Ask Bradley about Washington practicums |
WABON's approval rule, and Bradley's catalog note
WAC 246-840-571 governs distance programs from other states. Before one of them puts a student into a Washington clinical or practice experience, approval from the Washington State Board of Nursing, known as WABON, comes first: an application, proof that the program matches Washington's standards, supervising and grading its students on Washington soil, continuing national accreditation and a yearly report. WABON's approved list includes MSN and NP tracks, and it treats those placements as reserved for Washington residents, weighing any other case on its own facts.
Bradley's 2026-27 graduate catalog carries an older statement: Washington's Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission approved Bradley for practice experiences in Washington in MSN/FNP, MSN/Nurse Administrator, MSN/Nurse Educator, the post-MSN FNP certificate, ADN-MSN/FNP and DNP companion programs. That list names tracks Bradley no longer offers and omits PMHNP and both AG tracks, so it reads as dated. Ask your academic advisor which of today's tracks Washington's approval covers before you plan hours.
Who can precept you, and where students look
Washington's education rules line up closely with Bradley's. For ARNP students, Washington wants a preceptor licensed as an ARNP, MD or DO, active and clean (an equivalent license from another state also counts), with no family or friendship tie to the student. Bradley already excludes family members and limits NP preceptors to NPs, MDs and DOs (preceptor requirements); in Washington, leave out the friend from your old unit as well.
AANP ranks Washington a full practice state. Most searches cluster in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, with Spokane, Kennewick-Richland and Vancouver, the Washington side of the Portland metro, behind it. The big names include Providence (based in Renton, with Providence Swedish in the family), PeaceHealth, UW Medicine, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and MultiCare; each sets its own student terms, and none has published a Bradley process.
The compact, Oregon, and a grant that skips you
Washington's compact membership is recent, implemented January 31, 2024. A Washington resident's multistate RN license now covers clinicals at home under Bradley's license rule (license rules) and is honored in compact states such as Idaho. Oregon stays outside the compact, so crossing the Columbia from Vancouver to a Portland clinic would take an Oregon license plus an advisor-approved bordering-state rotation.
WABON also runs the Washington State Student Nurse Preceptorship Grant for experienced ARNP, RN and LPN preceptors, but it leaves out every out-of-state program, wherever the hours are logged. FNP students here should plan for one cross-country trip too: the two-day October bootcamp in Peoria before NUR 679.
Why Washington students choose our placement desk
Washington rewards precision, and precision is how we work. Your placement advisor finds ARNPs, MDs and DOs who fit your course and have no personal tie to you, checks every license, and assembles the preceptor's documents, license, CV, malpractice proof and practice address, into a complete DocuSign packet well before Bradley's midterm deadline. We raise any Washington approval question early so your advisor can settle it, build FNP schedules around the Peoria trip, and line up your next practicum while this one runs. Share your city through the form below; the contact page works too.
Questions Bradley students ask
Can I take Bradley's PMHNP program from Washington now?
Bradley's current table marks PMHNP as meeting Washington's licensure education requirements, a change from the March 2025 copy. The catalog's older Washington approval statement does not name PMHNP, though, so ask Bradley's Office of Online and Distance Education or your academic advisor to confirm Washington clinicals for your track before you enroll.
Why does WABON's residency condition matter?
WABON limits placements under an approved out-of-state program to people who live in Washington, and reviews anything else one case at a time. A Washington resident training at home fits the rule cleanly. Someone living in Oregon or Idaho who hoped to train in Washington faces a harder request, and should raise it with Bradley well before the semester.
Could a close friend of mine precept me in Washington?
Washington says no: its nursing education rules keep relatives and personal friends from precepting ARNP students, and Bradley's Graduate Professional Behaviors Policy already lists family preceptors as a conflict of interest. Look for someone you know only professionally, or let us find one.
Will Washington's clinical placement rules change?
Possibly. A CR-101 notice WABON filed in December 2025 started a rewrite of its nursing education rules, the out-of-state section included, and easing clinical placement barriers is one stated aim. Look at WABON's education page each term, and ask Bradley whether a new rule touches its Washington approval.
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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