Post-BSN DNP Primary Care Clinical Residencies I-III and the 1,008 hours

Six course numbers, one sequence

Each track has its own three residencies with the same credit pattern: a 1-credit Residency I, then two 5-credit courses. The FNP descriptions cover patients across the lifespan; the AGPCNP descriptions cover patients from adolescence through older adulthood. Each residency requires the one before it, and the catalog still accepts older numbers (NURS 923, NURS 924, NURS 926, NURS 927) as prerequisites.

Residency III's description adds something the first two lack: leadership and systems-based practice with increasingly independent decision making. In practice, that calls for a preceptor willing to let you run visits from history to plan with growing independence.

The residency calendar in CUW's 2024 cohort plan

CUW's progression plan for the fall 2024 cohort shows how the three residencies line up after the primary care didactic courses (NURS 7110 to NURS 7112 for FNP, NURS 7220 to NURS 7222 for AGPCNP) and NURS 7013 Diagnostic Skills for APRN:

1. Residency I, summer (June 23 to August 17)Eight weeks and 120 hours, about 15 hours a week. Prerequisites: Pharmacotherapeutics, Advanced Pathophysiology and Advanced Health Assessment (NURS 6042, NURS 6036, NURS 6038).
2. Residency II, fall (August 31 to December 18)A 5-credit course across a full fall term, beginning two weeks after Residency I ends.
3. Residency III, spring (January 11 to May 7)The last 5-credit residency, running through the following spring.

The two-week break between Residency I and II leaves little time for a new site to clear a contract, so keeping one site across summer and fall is often the simplest path. Dates shift by cohort, and CUW also posts a 4-year plan, so work from your own plan and the semester calendar.

Preceptors, sites and states for the residencies

The Post-BSN DNP catalog uses CUW's standard graduate wording: you line up your own clinical preceptors, graduate faculty judge each one's appropriateness, and the Graduate Clinical Coordinator offers help along the way. The course titles settle the setting, since these are primary care residencies, and CUW's archived NP sources kept primary care students out of acute care as a main placement. The dated credential rules sit on the preceptor requirements page.

State eligibility is one place the DNP differs from the MSN. CUW's disclosure clears the Post-BSN DNP in every state it clears for the primary care MSN, Washington excepted, yet the Post-BSN DNP program page says Washington's nursing commission approved practice experiences there for both tracks. If a residency would fall in Washington, or anywhere outside Wisconsin, confirm with the Graduate Clinical Coordinator first; the licensure disclosures page has the table.

Why Post-BSN DNP students plan their residencies with us

Three residencies across summer, fall and spring leave almost no slack between courses, so we plan them together from the start. We look for primary care preceptors near home who fit your track, FNP or AGPCNP, in states where CUW's disclosure lists the Post-BSN DNP as meeting requirements, and we favor sites able to host you across more than one residency when that fits CUW's rules.

Each proposal we build pairs the preceptor's credentials and certification with a clear picture of the practice, and we say early when a site will probably need a new contract. If a residency preceptor drops, your placement advisor goes straight to work on a successor, and we keep your DNP project mentor search in step with the clinical plan. Start with the form below or contact us.