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Focus | Ideal Clinical Sites | Acceptable Preceptors* |\n| FNP Internship I | • Comprehensive history and physicals, and differential | • Clinics (hospital or community based) | Preceptor must practice Primary Care |\n| (ANNP8086) | diagnoses of individuals and families across the lifespan | • Private offices | • NP |\n| Maximum of 168 | • Preparing interventions, plan of care and evaluation of care | • Internists | • FNP |\n| clinical hours | for the patient with acute and chronic conditions of individuals | • Pediatricians | • CNM |\n| based on individualized | and families across the lifespan\u003Cbr>• Implementation of the role of the advanced practice nurse | • Specialty offices (orthopedics, cardiology, dermatology, diabetic, etc. ) | • WHNP\u003Cbr>• AANP |\n| schema |  |  | • MD / DO (Family, Primary Care Internal |\n|  |  |  | Medicine*, OB/GYN, Peds) |\n| FNP Internship II | • Comprehensive history and physicals, and differential | • Clinics (hospital or community based) | Preceptor must practice Primary Care |\n| (ANNP8087) | diagnoses of individuals and families across the lifespan | • Private offices | • NP |\n| 168 Clinical Hours | • Preparing interventions, plan of care and evaluation of care | • Internists | • FNP |\n| Maximum of 168 | for the patient with acute and chronic conditions of individuals | • Pediatricians | • CNM |\n| clinical hours based on | and families across the lifespan\u003Cbr>• Implementation of the role of the advanced practice nurse | • Specialty offices (orthopedics, cardiology, dermatology, diabetic, etc. ) | • WHNP\u003Cbr>• AANP |\n| individualized schema |  |  | • MD / DO (Family, Primary Care Internal Medicine*, OB/GYN, Peds) |\n| FNP Internship III | • Comprehensive history and physicals, and differential | • Clinics (hospital or community based) | Preceptor must practice Primary Care |\n| (ANNP8088) | diagnoses of individuals and families across the lifespan | • Private offices | • NP |\n| 168 Clinical Hours | • Preparing interventions, plan of care and evaluation of care | • Internists | • FNP |\n| Maximum of 168 | for the patient with acute and chronic conditions of individuals | • Pediatricians | • CNM |\n| clinical hours based on | and families across the lifespan\u003Cbr>• Implementation of the role of the advanced practice nurse | • Specialty offices (orthopedics, cardiology, dermatology, diabetic, etc. ) | • WHNP\u003Cbr>• AANP |\n| individualized schema |  |  | • MD / DO (Family, Primary Care Internal Medicine*, OB/GYN, Peds) |\n| FNP Internship IV | • Comprehensive history and physicals, and differential | • Clinics (hospital or community based) | Preceptor must practice Primary Care |\n| (ANNP8089) | diagnoses of individuals and families across the lifespan | • Private offices | • NP |\n| 168 Clinical Hours | • Preparing interventions, plan of care and evaluation of care | • Internists | • FNP |\n| Maximum of 168 | for the patient with acute and chronic conditions of individuals | • Pediatricians | • CNM |\n| clinical hours based on | and families across the lifespan\u003Cbr>• Implementation of the role of the advanced practice nurse | • Specialty offices (orthopedics, cardiology, dermatology, diabetic, etc. ) | • WHNP\u003Cbr>• AANP |\n| individualized schema |  |  | • MD / DO (Family, Primary Care Internal Medicine*, OB/GYN, Peds) |\n\n* Please note: An APRN serving as a preceptor must have earned a master’s degree or higher. Persons with a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), Licensed Midwife (LM), or Certified Midwife (CM) credential cannot serve as a preceptor.  \n• Preceptors and acceptable practicum sites cannot be perceived to have a conflict of interest as relates to evaluation of the student. For example, acceptable preceptors cannot be related to the student and may not work in the same department as the student. 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