Who cannot precept you in a CUW nurse practitioner clinical

The two conflicts CUW has written down

CUW's 2014-15 NP clinical handbook and its undated proposal form agree on two exclusions. First, you may not be precepted by your own health care provider or by the provider of an immediate family member; the handbook calls that a conflict of interest. Second, your clinical cannot sit on the unit or in the department where you are employed, although the same employer is fine.

Both rules come from documents that are now archived, and today's catalog does not repeat them. What the catalog does say is that graduate faculty rule on whether each preceptor and site is appropriate, and that judgment is where questions like these get decided now.

In practice, treat both rules as live until your course faculty tell you otherwise. They cost little to follow, and a placement that breaks one can cost you the hours already worked.

Your own unit at work

The second rule separates your job from your clinical. Under CUW's 2014-15 rules your employer can host you, your own unit cannot, and the penalty for crossing that line was steep: removal from the site and the loss of every hour logged there.

The line is drawn at the unit, not the organization. If you work as an RN in a system's family medicine clinic, that clinic is out, but a different primary care clinic in the same system can qualify if it meets CUW's other rules. The workplace practicum guide covers employer placements in detail, including why a job there is no automatic placement.

Limits that can rule a preceptor out later

A clinician who qualifies in your first course can stop qualifying as the hours add up. Watch these archived limits and state rules as you plan all three clinicals.

• The 400-hour cap: under the 2014-15 handbook, one clinician could supervise at most 400 of your program hours.
• The two-preceptor limit: more than two preceptors in a semester needed prior approval.
• The NP minimum: at least 50 program hours had to be with an NP, so a plan made only of physicians and PAs falls short.
• Wisconsin's license rule: at a Wisconsin site, a nurse preceptor must be cleared to practice in Wisconsin, without restrictions, at your target level or higher (N 1.08(6)).
• The state disclosure: if CUW lists your program as not meeting requirements in the clinic's state, the clinician's credentials cannot fix that. The disclosure guide lists the states.

Why CUW students choose us to screen for conflicts

Conflict questions are easy to miss when a willing clinician is in front of you. Our placement desk asks them at the first contact: whether the clinician treats you or your family, whether the site is your own unit, and whether the setting fits your track. We also track hours per preceptor across all three courses so the 400-hour cap and the NP minimum never catch you by surprise.

Each clinician we put forward arrives screened against CUW's archived conflict rules and Wisconsin's license rule, with the documents ready for your proposal and any connection you have to the practice noted up front. Where CUW's pages are silent, we prompt you to get your course faculty's answer in writing before the preceptor commits. Our service steps show the rest, and the contact form puts you in touch with a placement advisor.