Built for University of Memphis nursing students
Memphis Preceptor serves one group of students: those in the University of Memphis Loewenberg College of Nursing who need the right preceptor and clinical site. We know UofM's clinical rules in detail and build every placement around them, so what reaches the college is complete and fits the first time.
Get your placement plan
Tell us your UofM program and where you live. A placement advisor replies with the preceptor and site options that fit your UofM course.
Who we are
We are a preceptor placement desk made up of placement advisors whose entire focus is UofM's clinical process. Our work is the search, the matching and the paperwork: finding a clinician whose practice fits a student's course, confirming that the clinician can teach in the right term, and preparing everything UofM's approval depends on.
Most of the students we work with are in UofM's online MSN nurse practitioner concentrations or the matching graduate certificates, where clinical practicums take place in each student's local area. We also support Nursing Education and Nursing Leadership students through their immersion hours, and we help clinicians who want to teach UofM students find a good fit.
Whether UofM plays a role in arranging a student's practicum or not, our commitment is identical: a preceptor and site that meet the college's rules, close to home and ready before the first clinical day.
Why one college, not many
Every nursing school runs its clinical process its own way, and the details decide whether a placement clears approval. UofM's version has specific pieces: a preceptor agreement form approved by the Office of Community Partnerships and Practice, clearance in DISA Complio, site onboarding through HealthStream myClinicalExchange, a schedule to clinical faculty by Monday of week two, a seven-week minimum for a course's hours, and rotation rules that differ by track.
Working with one college means knowing those pieces by heart. When an FNP student needs a residency in family practice or internal medicine, or a PMHNP student moves from the outpatient focus of NURS 7614 to the inpatient focus of NURS 7616, the search is shaped by that rule from the first call. Our how it works page shows the process step by step.
How we work
Five working habits sit behind every placement we arrange.
- Rules first. Each search begins from the student's course, track and rotation requirements, so a preceptor fits before a name is shared.
- Close to home. We search around where the student lives and the distance they will drive, because UofM's MSN clinicals happen locally and transportation is the student's responsibility.
- Complete files. The preceptor's license, certification and practice details are gathered in advance, and the student's clearance items are checked against the placement dates.
- On call to the end. If a preceptor withdraws, a replacement search starts at once, and a vetted backup is kept in view.
- Straight answers. Where UofM's sources disagree, as with FNP hour totals of 750, 730 and 720, we say so and point students to the deciding source: the 2026-27 catalog, the LCON Academic Bulletin, then clinical faculty and the track coordinator.
Where we place students
UofM students live across a wide area, and so does our search. We work throughout Memphis and Shelby County, around Jackson and the Lambuth campus in West Tennessee, in DeSoto County and north Mississippi, in West Memphis, Jonesboro and east Arkansas, and in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, Knoxville and Chattanooga.
Many of these communities carry HRSA primary care shortage-area designations, from low-income neighborhoods in Shelby County to rural counties across West Tennessee, north Mississippi and east Arkansas. Every student we place in one of those communities is learning where patient access matters most. For students outside the region, we check how UofM's state rules apply before a search begins, and our state guides cover each state. Local knowledge counts here too: Memphis-area systems handle outside students very differently, from Baptist Memorial's three-month application window to Regional One Health's signed affiliation agreement, and each search is planned around the system involved.
Where UofM's approval fits
UofM makes every approval decision about its students' clinical work. The Office of Community Partnerships and Practice reviews and approves each preceptor agreement form, clinical faculty approve schedules and every clinical day, and changes of site need written sign-off from clinical faculty and the clinical coordinator.
Our role is to make those decisions easy to reach. The file that arrives for review is complete, accurate and aligned with the student's track, and the student arrives with Complio and myClinicalExchange items in order. We work alongside the student throughout, and UofM's faculty keep the final word on every placement. When the college updates its rules, as it did when approval of the agreement form moved from the clinical coordinator to the partnerships office, our process moves with it.
Working with us
Every placement starts with a conversation about your program, your course and your town. From there your placement advisor lays out what the search involves, which approvals lie ahead and what a quote covers, as explained on our cost page. Early contact pays off: every UofM NP plan puts its first precepted practicum in a Spring term, and the strongest placements are arranged during the Fall before it.
Clinicians interested in teaching a UofM student have their own page: precept a Memphis student explains what the role involves and how we support it. Students and clinicians alike can reach the placement desk through the form below or the chat button on every page. Bring your plan of study if you have it, so your placement advisor can map every practicum ahead in one pass.
Questions UofM students ask
Who works at Memphis Preceptor?
A placement desk of advisors who concentrate on UofM's clinical process: the Academic Bulletin's graduate clinical policies, the preceptor agreement form, Complio and myClinicalExchange clearance, and each track's rotation rules. When you contact us, a placement advisor handles your search from intake to your last clinical hour, so you always know whom to ask.
Why focus only on University of Memphis students?
Because approval turns on detail. Knowing exactly what UofM asks for, from the residency settings to the week-two schedule, lets us shape the search around the rules instead of discovering them at approval time. That focus gives students a faster, cleaner route to an approved placement.
Which UofM programs do you support?
Mainly the MSN concentrations in Family Nurse Practitioner, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP, Psychiatric-Mental Health NP, Nursing Education and Nursing Leadership, plus the graduate certificates in each. UofM assigns BSN students their clinical placements, and BSN, Accelerated BSN and RN to BSN students are welcome to ask questions.
Do you help students who live outside the Memphis area?
Yes. UofM's MSN clinicals happen in each student's local area, so we search wherever you live, from Jackson and Nashville to Knoxville, north Mississippi and east Arkansas. For other states, we check how UofM's authorized-state list and licensure disclosures apply to you before the search starts.
What does a placement with you include?
The search for a preceptor and site that fit your course, confirmation that the preceptor can teach in your term, preparation of the details the preceptor agreement form needs, a check of your clearance items against the placement dates, and a replacement search if a preceptor withdraws. Our cost page explains what shapes a quote.
Related pages
Last checked 2026-09-27
We check these pages against UofM's 2026-27 catalog, the LCON Academic Bulletin, program pages and licensure disclosures. Your clinical faculty and your plan of study have the final word.
Whether UofM helps or you start alone, we find the preceptor.
Tell us your UofM concentration, your next practicum and the town you train near. We find preceptors and sites that fit the course and prepare what the preceptor agreement form needs, early enough for approval before the first clinical day.
- Preceptors matched to the rotation rules: an NP preceptor, family practice for FNP, inpatient and critical care for AG-ACNP
- License, certification and site details ready for the preceptor agreement form, with your Complio items in order
- Across the Mid-South, Tennessee and the states UofM serves
Start your placement plan
Your concentration, your town and your next clinical semester is all we need to begin.