A Louisiana preceptor for your UL Lafayette practicum, with the paperwork on file early.
Whether UL Lafayette helps with your placement or not, we find you a preceptor and site that meet its rules. Your practicum hours happen in Louisiana under preceptors the state's Board sets standards for, so we search close to home and gather the contract, CV and agreement details ahead of the term.
Start your placement plan
Tell us your UL Lafayette program, the parish or town you live in and the term your next clinical course begins. A placement advisor writes back with clinicians and sites suited to it.
Louisiana's rules, UL Lafayette's courses, one search
UL Lafayette's MSN pages set the frame: every clinical experience in the nurse practitioner concentrations happens in Louisiana, and the certificate's hours are spent with an approved advanced practice preceptor guided by graduate faculty. The consortium handbook adds what must sit in the graduate nursing office before a single clinical day: an agency contract, the preceptor's CV and a signed letter of agreement.
That is where our work begins. For each course, from NURS 582 to the DNP residency, we look for a Louisiana clinician who fits the population focus and bring the license, certification and practice details together. UL Lafayette's faculty approve; our part is making sure nothing they need is missing.
A new agency contract can take weeks to months, and nothing counts until the contract, the CV and the letter of agreement are on file.
Four stones from your first message to logged hours
Each one sits beside a step UL Lafayette and the consortium already ask of you.
Your UL Lafayette track, the practicum ahead, where in Louisiana you live and how far you will drive.
Clinicians who fit the course: family practice, psychiatric care, a DNP agency mentor or a nurse educator.
The preceptor's license, certification and CV, plus the agency details the contract and letter of agreement need.
Your schedule posted, direct care hours adding up in Louisiana, and a backup preceptor in reserve.
Pick your UL Lafayette program
Your clinical courses and hours, who can precept you, where, and when to start looking. From UL Lafayette's own catalog and nursing pages.
- Who precepts
- Mostly APRNs certified in family practice, each with an active Louisiana license
- Where
- Louisiana primary care: children and women's health, then adults, then older adults
- Start looking
- NURS 582 falls in semester 3 of the 5-semester plan
- Who precepts
- Psychiatric mental health APRNs with an active Louisiana license
- Where
- Louisiana psychiatric and mental health practices, direct patient care
- Start looking
- NURS 591 falls in semester 4 of the 6-semester plan
- Who precepts
- An approved advanced practice preceptor, guided by graduate faculty
- Where
- Direct patient care in Louisiana, with an older-adult emphasis at the end
- Start looking
- NURS 591 falls in semester II of IV
- Who precepts
- An approved mentor from the agency where your project runs
- Where
- Your specialty area, in Louisiana or your home state
- Start looking
- NURS 821 falls in semester 4 of the 6-semester plan
- Who precepts
- Nurse educators and advanced clinicians who precept
- Where
- Clinical practice first, then precepted class, lab and clinical teaching
- Start looking
- NURS 544 falls in semester 3 of the 4-semester plan
How UL Lafayette runs its clinicals
Named the way UL Lafayette and the consortium name them, from the 2026-27 catalog, the online program pages and the ICMSN handbook.
Guides by UL Lafayette program
Each UL Lafayette nursing program that carries clinical hours, with the preceptor profile it asks for.
Practicums and residencies
Course by course: the hours, the setting and the kind of clinician each UL Lafayette clinical course needs.
Preceptors near you
From Lafayette and the Acadiana parishes to Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, New Orleans and north Louisiana.
Before you start
Can you help if UL Lafayette is already working on my site?
Yes. Whichever way your placement is moving, we look for a clinician and site suited to your course and Louisiana's preceptor rules, and we hold a second option in reserve. See the placement process.
Do UL Lafayette MSN clinicals have to be in Louisiana?
Yes. UL Lafayette's MSN page says every concentration completes its clinical experiences in Louisiana, and the state authorization page asks NP students for a Louisiana RN license. See Louisiana-only clinicals.
Can a DNP student do the residency outside Louisiana?
UL Lafayette's DNP page says the hours can be completed in Louisiana or your home state, in your specialty area. Confirm your state first, because the lists disagree. See the DNP residency.
What exactly do you do for UL Lafayette students?
We find Louisiana clinicians and sites that fit your course, collect the license, certification, CV and agency details the paperwork needs, and hold a second preceptor in reserve. Each step is laid out on how it works.
Who approves a preceptor you find?
UL Lafayette. Under the consortium handbook, course faculty approve each preceptor after the graduate coordinator's review. See preceptor requirements.
Whether UL Lafayette helps or you start alone, we find the preceptor.
Tell us your UL Lafayette program, the practicum coming up and the Louisiana town you train near. We look for preceptors and sites that fit the course and gather the license, CV and agency details that must be on file before your first clinical day.
- Preceptors who meet Louisiana's rules: an active Louisiana license, most hours with an APRN in your population focus
- The preceptor's CV, the agency details and your letter of agreement items gathered early
- Across Acadiana and the rest of Louisiana, plus DNP residencies in your home state
Start your placement plan
Your program, your town and your next clinical semester is all we need to begin.