NURS 7267 Advanced Primary Care Clinical III - AGPCNP: older adults, final 250 hours

An outpatient course built around older adults

Clinical I covers the adult lifespan and Clinical II the wider primary care setting; the catalog then narrows Clinical III to the older adult seen in outpatient care. The strongest fit is an outpatient primary care practice where older adults fill much of the schedule, such as a geriatric primary care clinic or an internal medicine or adult practice with many older patients.

The word outpatient carries weight. CUW's archived sources kept NP students out of inpatient units, emergency departments and specialty clinics as primary sites (2014-15 handbook) and away from acute care as the main placement (2022 blog). A long-term care or rehabilitation setting may sound gerontological, yet it is not plainly outpatient primary care, so clear it with faculty before you propose it. The primary care sites page sets out the site rules by year.

Back to back with Clinical II: plan both at once

In the catalog's sample plan, Clinical II falls in semester 7 and Clinical III in semester 8, one straight after the other. That squeezes the lead time. Two archived clocks run at once: the proposal was due no later than four weeks before the start, and a site new to CUW could need 8 to 12 weeks for its contract. A Clinical III site without an agreement should therefore be named before Clinical II is far along.

1. Before Clinical II startsDecide whether Clinical III stays at a Clinical II site or moves to an older-adult practice, and ask any new site whether it has hosted CUW students before.
2. Early in Clinical IISecure the Clinical III preceptor in writing and send the proposal, so contract review runs while you are still logging Clinical II hours.
3. Midway through Clinical IIConfirm approval, finish the site's own onboarding and vaccination requirements, and agree on a weekly schedule with the preceptor.
4. Final weeks of Clinical IIClose out your Clinical II records so the prerequisite is complete on the day Clinical III opens.

The deadlines page turns those archived lead times into a full calendar.

Reaching 750 and what follows

Completing NURS 7267 finishes the 750 clinical hours CUW's catalog sets as the AGPCNP minimum. CAGE AGPCNP students work toward the same figure, though clinical hours from a previous advanced practice degree can be weighed individually, so their last clinical can look different. AGPCNP students in the Post-BSN DNP reach their clinical total another way, through NURS 8226 to NURS 8228 on the DNP residency page.

For graduates who will practice in Wisconsin, the credential itself changed in 2026. Under 2025 Wisconsin Act 17, the state replaced the APNP credential with an APRN license, with applications open from August 3, 2026, and a newly licensed APRN works in collaboration with a physician or dentist until meeting the independent-practice thresholds. The Wisconsin practice page explains the hour thresholds and the jurisprudence exam.