Nurse leader immersions at UofM: NURS 7917 and NURS 7919
UofM's MSN in Nursing Leadership builds its precepted work into two courses: NURS 7917 Nurse Leader Immersion I at 120 hours and NURS 7919, a 240-hour course that doubles as the Roles and Transition to Practice Residency. Full-time students who start in fall meet the first immersion in their very first term. However UofM handles your placement, we find a qualified nurse leader preceptor quickly enough for that schedule and prepare the details for approval.
Plan your leadership immersions
Tell us your start term and where you live, and your placement advisor starts on a nurse leader preceptor for Immersion I.
Two immersions inside a 33-credit plan
The Nursing Leadership concentration adds 21 specialty credits to the MSN core. Five of its courses are online classes in the work of a nurse leader: NURS 6900 Power of Workplace Civility and Diversity, NURS 7912 Collaborative Professional Relationships Management, NURS 7913 Accountable and Ethical Nursing Leadership Practices, NURS 7914 Healthcare Business and Finance, and NURS 7915 Evidence-Based Leadership to Improve Patient Care. The two immersions carry the precepted hours.
| Course | Title | Credits | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| NURS 7917 | Nurse Leader Immersion I | 2 | 120 |
| NURS 7919 | Nurse Leader Immersion II Roles and Transition to Practice Residency | 4 | 240 |
The catalog course pages for both immersions require a B or better to progress, and the Leadership concentration's catalog entry asks for a B in all courses. The grades and progression guide explains repeats and the five-year limit.
An immersion in your first term
Leadership is the one UofM MSN concentration where precepted hours can start right away. On the full-time plan, NURS 7917 falls in term one for a fall start and term three for a spring start. The part-time plan moves it to term four after a fall start and term three after a spring start.
Every published Leadership plan puts Immersion I in a fall term. The Nursing Leadership graduate certificate follows suit: term one for a fall start, term two for a spring start. A full-time fall starter therefore needs an approved preceptor before the first week of classes, while also clearing compliance: the drug screen falls within 30 days before the fall clinical term, alongside the background check, BLS and immunization records in Complio.
If you are applying for a fall start, plan Immersion I as soon as you accept your offer of admission. The first clinical course guide sets this timing beside UofM's other programs.
The preceptor: qualified, in UofM's word
The catalog says that in NURS 7917 the student "is supervised by qualified preceptor." UofM does not publish what qualifies a leadership preceptor, whether a license level, a job title or years in a leadership role. The bulletin uses the same idea when it lets Leadership students return to a previous site for the residency, "given the preceptor qualifications are met," again without a definition.
In practice the definition gets applied at approval time. LCON's partnerships office reviews the preceptor agreement form, your clinical faculty approve the schedule, and the coordinator who oversees both the Education and Leadership tracks answers questions about fit. What helps most is a file that shows the preceptor's license, current leadership role, scope of responsibility and credentials in plain terms.
We look for nurse leaders with real operational scope: unit and department managers, directors of nursing, and executives who can involve a student in staffing, budgeting, quality work and team decisions.
360 or 500: the Leadership hour conflict
Add the two immersions and you get 360 hours, the number the bulletin prints as Leadership's specialty clinical total. A line further down that same table reads 500 for the whole program, a 140-hour difference that nothing UofM publishes accounts for. Treat it as an open question rather than a hidden requirement.
Plan for the 360 hours your courses list, and ask the track coordinator whether anything beyond the two immersions counts toward a 500-hour figure for your cohort. When UofM's papers disagree, the current catalog and bulletin outrank older plans and web pages.
The usual MSN pacing rules also apply to both immersions: a schedule in your clinical faculty's hands early in week two, written notice a week before any change, and no course's hours finished in under seven weeks. The clinical hours overview compares every UofM program's figures.
Returning to your Immersion I site
Unlike Nursing Education students, who must move to a new site for the residency, Leadership students may go back to a site they used before, provided the preceptor qualifications are met. That opens a useful path: a preceptor who supervised your 120 hours in NURS 7917 already knows your strengths and your organization, and can hand you larger responsibilities during the 240 hours of NURS 7919.
Returning is an option, not a requirement. Some students prefer a second organization for a wider view of how nurse leaders work, for example moving from a hospital unit to a system-level role. We plan both routes and check early whether your Immersion I preceptor can take you again.
If you already work in nursing management, note that UofM keeps practicum hours away from your current employer unless compelling circumstances prevail and faculty approve; the workplace clinicals guide covers that request.
How we set up both leadership immersions
- Start from your first termWe check whether Immersion I lands in your first fall and, if it does, begin the preceptor search the moment you tell us your start date.
- Match a leader with real scopeWe look for a nurse leader whose role covers the staffing, finance, quality and team work your Leadership courses teach, near where you live.
- Assemble the paperworkYour preceptor's license, leadership title and credentials, along with the organization's details, go into one tidy package for the preceptor agreement form, next to your own Complio and myClinicalExchange to-do list.
- Plan the residency with itWe confirm whether your Immersion I preceptor can return for NURS 7919 or line up a second leader, so the residency is settled well before its term.
Final approval of every leadership preceptor rests with LCON's partnerships office and your clinical faculty. What we control is the file, and we deliver it finished and on time. Tell us when you start, and Immersion I comes first.
Questions UofM students ask
Do Nursing Leadership students come to campus?
UofM's published intensives belong to the NP tracks. The MSN page shows none for Nursing Leadership, and the bulletin calls every MSN course online. Should a course ever add a campus session, Canvas is where it would appear, so read each syllabus as the term opens.
Does the Nursing Leadership certificate include both immersions?
Yes. The 21-credit Nursing Leadership graduate certificate includes NURS 7917 and NURS 7919 at 120 and 240 hours. Immersion I falls in the first term for a fall start and the second term for a spring start, so certificate students need a preceptor soon after admission. See the education and leadership certificates guide.
Which compliance items do Leadership students need before an immersion?
The MSN list applies to Leadership too: a DISA Complio account, a background check every year, a fresh drug screen inside the 30-day window before every fall or spring clinical term, AHA BLS, immunizations with an annual TB test, and an unrestricted RN license. Sites may add their own onboarding in myClinicalExchange. See the Complio guide.
Do RN-to-MSN students in Leadership follow the same immersions?
Yes. UofM treats RN to MSN as a way in to the MSN concentrations, not a program of its own, so Leadership students who enter that way take NURS 7917 and NURS 7919 like everyone else. UofM adds health assessment, pharmacology and pathophysiology to the entry requirements for Leadership RN-to-MSN applicants.
Can a non-nurse executive precept a leadership immersion?
UofM does not publish leadership preceptor qualifications beyond calling for a qualified preceptor. Tennessee's board rules ask for a preceptor licensed at the student's target level or higher, which points toward a registered nurse in a leadership role. Ask your clinical faculty before planning around a preceptor who is not a nurse.
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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.
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- 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
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