Your ASU women's health NP preceptor

Not outside Maricopa County. You identify your own clinical sites and preceptors, the DNP program office does not guarantee a placement, and Edson College approves the sites you bring before any clinical experience begins. Women's health preceptors whose scope matches the concentration can be hard to find in a given city, which is exactly where a run-for-you search earns its place, particularly because the WHNP concentration carries more required practicum hours than ASU's other tracks.

In-county students can lean on ASU to arrange focused experiences, but out-of-county students, most of the online cohort, are on their own to find a women's health practice willing to precept. Those providers are a smaller pool than primary care in any given city, and the concentration's heavier hour load means you need a site that can sustain more rotation time, so starting early and casting wide is not optional, it is how the placement actually comes together.

The ASU DNP Women's Health NP concentration requires up to 1,125 practicum hours, including 630 clock hours (14 credit hours) of practicum in a community setting, within an 84 credit-hour program that ends with the DNP 707 applied project. That focused practicum is one credit hour and 45 clock hours higher than the 585 clock hours the family, adult-gerontology, and psychiatric concentrations require. The table shows the concentration as ASU publishes it.

Confirm the exact counts for your cohort against your current Edson handbook.

The women's health concentration carries 630 clock hours of focused practicum, against 585 for the family, adult-gerontology, and psychiatric tracks, because its scope spans reproductive and gynecologic care that students need concentrated time to build. In practice that extra rotation weight means you need a women's health placement with enough patient volume and variety to fill more hours, which raises the bar on the site you secure and is another reason to line up an approvable preceptor early rather than late.

That higher bar shapes what counts as a good site. A women's health placement has to offer enough breadth across obstetric, gynecologic, and reproductive care, and enough patient volume, to fill 630 hours without stalling. A boutique practice that sees a narrow slice of patients can leave you short, so we weigh a site's capacity to carry the full hour requirement, not just a provider's willingness, before you commit.

WHNP practicum is completed in community-based women's health, under an approved preceptor in your own region. Recognized settings include obstetrics and gynecology practices, reproductive and sexual health clinics, prenatal and postpartum care, and community women's health services, including the urban underserved and rural shortage-area sites ASU rotates students through statewide. Each proposed site has to match the women's health scope Edson approves before your hours count.

In practice, obstetrics and gynecology groups, midwifery practices, family planning and reproductive health clinics, and hospital-affiliated women's health services are the environments that most reliably match the scope, including the underserved and rural sites ASU rotates students through statewide. What Edson checks is that the site and preceptor together cover the women's health competencies your practicum is built around.

An approvable WHNP preceptor holds an active license and a women's health scope, typically a women's health nurse practitioner, a certified nurse-midwife, or an obstetrics and gynecology physician. Edson College must approve the preceptor and site before you begin, and because preceptor rules are set by ASU and can vary, we confirm every proposed match against your program's current requirements before you commit, so a scope mismatch never costs you one of the concentration's 630 focused hours.

A women's health nurse practitioner or certified nurse-midwife with a full reproductive and gynecologic panel is the cleanest fit; an obstetrics and gynecology physician works when the rotation is structured to cover the concentration's scope, which is a judgment we make with you up front. Confirming the preceptor's license and certification before any agreement is signed is what keeps a term safe.

Working as an independent preceptor matching service, we source an ASU-approvable women's health preceptor and the sites your concentration needs, verify credentials and scope against ASU's rules, and shepherd the documentation through Edson approval so your practicum begins on schedule. You pay only once your preceptor and site are confirmed, never the preceptor, and we never promise an approval decision ASU controls.

Because the women's health track carries more hours than any other ASU concentration, the cost of a late or rejected site is higher, so we push to have your placement sourced and in Edson approval well ahead of your start term. We assemble the documentation, keep it moving, and never charge you until your preceptor and site are confirmed.

Sources: ASU DNP Women's Health NP degree page, ASU Edson College clinical placements, and NONPF.