Precepting a Maryville nursing student: what you'd be agreeing to

What Maryville asks of a preceptor

Maryville's February 2026 nursing blog sets the baseline for its five NP concentrations. It asks for a preceptor who is:

• an APRN, MD or DO; PAs and CRNAs “don't typically qualify”
• board certified, or covered by an approved Preceptor Exception Form
• licensed without encumbrance in the state where they practice
• in practice for at least a year

PMHNP students have a wider pool: an LCSW qualifies, as does a clinician holding a PsychD or a PhD in psychology, and Maryville's 2023 webinars described prescribing preceptors as physicians or PMHNPs with psychiatric prescribing authority. Setting matters as well: the same webinars placed FNP, AGPCNP and PNP students in primary or preventive care, and AGACNP students in hospitalist-type settings.

Maryville also excludes anyone too close to the student: a relative, a direct supervisor or direct report, a direct work colleague, anyone who evaluates the student's work, or the student's own healthcare provider. The complete rules are on preceptor requirements.

The paperwork, and who does it

Most of it falls to the student. The student files the site and preceptor request through Exxat, Maryville's clinical platform, and Maryville reviews it. What reaches you and your practice is usually short:

• Your license and board certification, which the student looks up and uploads; Maryville's older guides point students to Nursys for NPs
• A Preceptor Exception Form, only if you aren't board certified; Maryville's Program Coordinator decides it
• A site agreement: Maryville's MOU, or your organization's own contract, which takes its place
• Any onboarding your organization runs for students, which doesn't replace Maryville's approval

Before the first clinical day, Maryville needs four approvals: the student's compliance, the request, clearance from your site, and course faculty. If your practice has an education department or a manager who clears students, that is the site clearance. The contract side is covered on Maryville's MOU and affiliation agreement page.

Hours, time logs and the NP Student Evaluation

The time you give depends on the course. Students in any Maryville NP concentration since Spring 2024 complete 750 clinical hours over three practicums, though Maryville hasn't published how many of those hours fall in each course, so ask the student for the syllabus and the hours they need from you this term.

During the rotation you confirm the student's time. Maryville's 2021 guides, from the eValue era, had preceptors approving time logs from weekly emails and receiving the NP Student Evaluation 5 days before the rotation's end date. Current help articles describe Exxat, and Maryville hasn't said publicly which system now sends these, so ask the student how their course handles it.

Maryville's welcome page is clear about roles: preceptors evaluate the student's performance with faculty input, and faculty assign the final grade. More on the form is on the NP Student Evaluation page.

What Maryville offers preceptors

Know this before you agree. Maryville told students in a 2023 webinar that its clinical preceptors are unpaid, and its public pages name no preceptor CE, library access, adjunct title or recognition program. The welcome page mentions a graduate student handbook with preceptor information, but we found no public copy.

Missouri's Community-Based Faculty Preceptor Tax Credit doesn't help either. Under the Department of Health and Senior Services rule, the credit is for Missouri-licensed physicians and PAs teaching students from Missouri medical schools or PA programs in core rotations. NP students, Maryville's included, fall outside it whoever precepts them. A federal bill that would create a nurse-preceptor credit, the PRECEPT Nurses Act (H.R. 392), was pending, not law, when we checked. Missouri's preceptor tax credit explains the rule.

Questions to ask the student before you say yes

A short conversation now saves a declined request later. Ask:

• The track, the practicum course (NURS 624 in FNP, say, or NURS 664 in PMHNP) and the term dates
• How many hours they need from you, per their syllabus, and on which days
• Whether their Exxat compliance is up to date, from the background check and drug screen to immunizations and AHA BLS
• Who at your organization signs student agreements, and whether it uses Maryville's MOU or its own
• How time logs and the evaluation will reach you
• Who their course faculty member is, in case you need to raise a concern

Student liability coverage isn't described on Maryville's public pages. If your organization needs proof of it, ask the student to get that from the Maryville Online Clinical Team before the first day.

Saying no, or not this term

A clear no, sent quickly, does a student more good than a maybe that runs down the clock. Maryville's request and its four approvals take time after a preceptor agrees, so a late withdrawal can cost the student a whole term.

If timing is the problem, name the term that would work. If your setting doesn't fit the course, say that too; the student can use it when asking someone else. And if you agreed but your circumstances change, let the student and the course faculty know at once, so a replacement search can begin while there's still time.

Open to precepting Maryville students?

Some clinicians would host a student if the right one asked at the right time. If that describes you, select “I'm a preceptor (not a student)” from the program list. Tell us what you practice, where, and which terms or days might suit, and whether your organization has worked with Maryville before.

We bring you Maryville students whose track, course and dates fit your practice, and a placement advisor answers your questions about Maryville's paperwork before you commit. You decide each time, filling in the form signs you up to nothing, and Maryville reviews and approves every placement.