FNP preceptor support for Murray State University students

• Program: Family Nurse Practitioner
• School: Murray State University
• Directory location: Murray, Kentucky
• Verified pathways: DNP
• Official evidence checked: July 22, 2026
• Clinical focus: family and individual primary care across the lifespan
• Potential setting landscape: family practice, community health, pediatric primary care, internal medicine, adult and older adult primary care, reproductive or women's health, school or student health, and other approved primary care settings
• Approval authority: the student's current program

Treat the pathway list as an evidence boundary, not a summary of school policy. The official pages establish the FNP credential routes shown here, while the current handbook, syllabus, and program contact remain the authorities for hours, sites, preceptors, forms, and deadlines.

Official Murray State University sources checked July 22, 2026 support the DNP pathway record. Public program evidence answers whether the pathway is represented here, but the program must answer the separate questions about objectives, geography, hours, eligibility, placement ownership, and approval.

• Official FNP source 1, DNP: The current official institution or catalog source identifies the FNP DNP pathway evidence.

These citations are included for verification, not as an endorsement of our service. Read the current official page and ask the program to confirm any requirement that affects the proposed preceptor or site.

The clinical spine is family primary care across the lifespan. A useful experience may involve prevention, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults, with reproductive or women's health included when the current course objectives require it.

Start with the missing competencies, then choose a setting. Family practice can offer breadth, pediatrics can strengthen child health, internal medicine can support adult care, and community or reproductive health may fill defined gaps. Formal eligibility still belongs to Murray State University.

A DNP listing tells us which FNP route appears in the official source set. It does not tell us where a student may complete clinical work, who arranges a placement, or what the program will approve. Those answers belong in current program guidance.

Use a one-page clinical brief to explain the remaining need: course, dates, lifespan populations, setting, required experiences, hours, and credential criteria. A specific brief respects the preceptor's time and gives the program a clearer proposal to evaluate.

National figures are context, not a Murray State University requirement. The 2022 NTF standards recommend at least 750 direct patient care hours for an NP population focus. ANCC and AANPCB FNP certification eligibility materials use at least 500 faculty-supervised clinical hours. Programs may set different totals and distributions, so confirm the student's exact requirement.

Use the FNP clinical hours guide for national context and the preceptor requirements guide for screening questions. Neither guide replaces the program's current instructions.

Preceptor screening asks whether the clinician's credential and real work align with the approved FNP objectives. Primary care nurse practitioners and physicians may be search candidates, but the program controls the final eligibility rules and may define additional acceptable roles.

The directory lists Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. That is a planning anchor, not a statement about where students may complete clinical work. Confirm the student's authorized geography before outreach, since licensure, travel, site access, and program rules can change the practical search area.

Use the FNP placement guide for Kentucky for broader family practice, community health, pediatric, adult, older adult, and reproductive health context. Any actual candidate and site must still pass the student's current program review.

• The exact course, clinical objectives, term dates, and remaining approved hours
• The approved geography, lifespan populations, primary care setting, and required experiences
• The proposed clinician's license, certification, specialty, primary care role, and availability
• The site's practice setting, patient mix, and opportunities tied to the objectives
• Every current preceptor, site, compliance, and submission form supplied by the program

Document the match in the program's own terms. The file should show candidate qualifications, primary care role, population and site context, objective alignment, dates, and availability. The school can require additional review or documents that we cannot approve.

Once the current checklist is clear, send the course, term dates, approved geography, required populations and setting, remaining hours, candidate criteria, and forms. Our placement process uses that brief to look for a possible match before the program evaluates it.

FNP Preceptor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Murray State University. We cannot guarantee that a preceptor or site will be available, that paperwork will finish by a particular date, or that the program will approve a proposal. A request starts a search only.