FNP preceptor support for San Francisco State University students

• Program: Family Nurse Practitioner
• School: San Francisco State University
• Directory location: San Francisco, California
• Verified pathways: MSN and post-graduate certificate
• 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.

As of July 22, 2026, the official links below identify MSN and post-graduate certificate for the FNP specialty at San Francisco State University. That supports directory inclusion and pathway labeling only. It does not authorize us to infer a practicum rule from a degree or certificate name.

• Official FNP source 1, MSN and post-graduate certificate: The current official institution or catalog source identifies the FNP MSN, post-graduate certificate 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.

No site category is automatically suitable. A community health center may offer broad age diversity, a pediatric practice may fill child health objectives, and an adult or reproductive health setting may address another need. The student's program must evaluate the complete proposal.

The published pathway set is MSN and post-graduate certificate. Before sourcing, separate that public fact from the student's individual clinical need. Confirm the active course, required outcomes, patient populations, remaining approved hours, location boundaries, and candidate credentials.

Translate each objective into observable primary care work before outreach. One course may emphasize pediatric prevention, another adult chronic care, older adult assessment, reproductive health, or common episodic concerns. An objective map helps avoid a willing candidate whose daily role cannot support the required experience.

Do not calculate this student's need from a national number. NTF recommends at least 750 direct patient care hours for an NP population focus, while FNP certification eligibility materials refer to a minimum of 500 faculty-supervised clinical hours. The current program determines the applicable total, allocation, simulation treatment, and balance.

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.

San Francisco, California identifies the school record but does not define a clinical territory. A student may be able to consider nearby or distant practices only if the program permits it. We confirm those boundaries before screening candidates.

Use the FNP placement guide for California 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.

Do the confirmation work before outreach: course and dates, approved location, clinical objectives, patient populations, remaining hours, candidate credentials, and required forms. We use those facts to source carefully and submit a potential match for program review.

This is independent placement support, not a school service or endorsement. We can source and organize a candidate file for San Francisco State University to review, but we cannot promise placement, acceptance, contracts, credentialing, or a timeline.