FNP preceptor support for Shenandoah University students

• Program: Family Nurse Practitioner
• School: Shenandoah University
• Directory location: Winchester, Virginia
• Verified pathways: 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

This snapshot reports only what the linked official program evidence supports. It does not assign a delivery format, clinical sequence, hour total, placement responsibility, preceptor rule, or approval timeline to Shenandoah University. Confirm each of those details with the current program.

The directory uses the official FNP pages available on July 22, 2026. They support post-graduate certificate as the pathway set for this record. Any detail not explicit in those pages remains unclaimed and must be confirmed with the program.

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

The search can span family medicine, community clinics, pediatric offices, internal medicine, adult and geriatric primary care, reproductive health, and other settings that deliver genuine primary care. We screen what happens there, while Shenandoah University decides whether the actual preceptor and site satisfy the course.

For this record, the official evidence names post-graduate certificate. We use that verified label only to orient the request. The student's own course documents must supply the populations, setting, competencies, dates, geography, hour balance, and preceptor criteria.

Break the practicum into the competencies and lifespan populations that remain unmet. The search can then prioritize the right service and clinician instead of asking broadly for any FNP preceptor. The program still reviews the combined picture and may request a different arrangement.

National figures are context, not a Shenandoah 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.

A currently licensed and appropriately certified primary care NP is a direct search target. An appropriately licensed physician may also fit when the role, population, setting, and supervision align with the course. Other clinician types belong in the search only when Shenandoah University explicitly permits them.

Primary care opportunities for different lifespan populations are distributed unevenly across communities. Confirm approved states and travel limits first, then compare the remaining objectives with family practice, pediatric, adult, older adult, community, and reproductive health settings in that area.

The FNP placement guide for Virginia adds state-level context for family practice, community health, pediatric, adult, older adult, and reproductive care. Apply the exact location and approval rules confirmed by the student's program.

• 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

An approval-ready proposal identifies the clinician's credentials, current primary care role, practice setting, patient populations, availability, and connection to the course objectives. It also includes the forms supplied by the student. This organization supports review but cannot replace any program step.

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.

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