Drexel's clinical placement manager and the people around your placement

The clinical placement manager sits in the Department of Advanced Practice Nursing, which covers Drexel's nurse practitioner and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs. It is the only placement staff role Drexel names on its public pages. On the Become A Clinical Preceptor page, the manager is the contact for clinicians who want to precept and "get connected to our team."

Read that carefully. The public description is about recruiting preceptors into Drexel's pool rather than assigning students to them, and the NP program pages still say you find and coordinate your own site with the department's resources to assist. The manager's recruiting is one of those resources, alongside Dragon Network.

A naming note: Drexel Online pages and the preceptor page say Department of Advanced Practice Nursing, while drexel.edu program pages say Division of Graduate Nursing. Both names point to the same unit, so there is one office to find, not two.

Treat the manager as the person who brings new clinicians into Drexel's orbit. If you meet an NP, CNM or physician who is open to precepting but has never taken a Drexel student, point them to the Become A Clinical Preceptor page. It tells them to join Dragon Network or contact the placement manager, and to have their CV, state license and board certification ready.

When you write to the department yourself, make the request easy to act on. Include your track, the course and quarter you need covered, your city and county, and the clinicians or sites you have already approached. Ask how the manager's recruiting supports students in your track and region; Drexel does not publish that detail, so NUPR 520 and your track director are the places to ask.

A third-party clinical onboarding directory, ACEMAPP, also lists the graduate nursing placement manager as Drexel's school contact. That suggests the role faces health systems as well as individual preceptors.

CNHP's Clinical Compliance team, which also calls itself the Contracts and Compliance team, handles "contractual and compliance processes." Its public roles include an Associate Director for Clinical Compliance and Contract Operations, a Compliance Coordinator for Nurse Practitioner and MSN students, and a Contracts and Compliance Coordinator for the doctoral nursing programs. The shared mailbox is dhcompliance@drexel.edu.

Two of its jobs matter most to you. The team runs the clinical contracting process that puts an affiliation agreement in place with your site, covered on the affiliation agreement page. And your compliance coordinator sends the program-specific requirements and due dates, then reviews what you upload to CastleBranch. Drexel's stated turnaround is an answer inside 24 business hours from Monday to Friday, while weekend messages can take up to 48 hours.

Put your full name, program, track and first clinical term in every message. The item-by-item list lives on clinical compliance.

The Division of Graduate Nursing's faculty list shows a chair, a program director for the NP programs, an executive director for the DNP, and a track director for each NP track: FNP, AGACNP, AGPCNP (with a separate primary care NP track director), PMHNP, pediatric dual and acute care, Emergency NP and WHNP.

Your track director is the academic authority on fit. Take them questions such as whether a setting counts for a course (for AGACNP, the catalog points to medical, surgical and critical care settings), whether a preceptor's specialty is approved for your track, and what to do when hours are at risk. If a preceptor withdraws, tell your track director early; our preceptor dropout guide walks through the next steps.

The MSN in Nursing Leadership works differently. There, the track director works with each student to find a practicum site and preceptor.

Once you start, clinical faculty follow your progress in each clinical course, which pairs the online didactic with the rotation in the same quarter. Drexel's preceptor page asks preceptors to communicate with clinical faculty about how the student is doing, to complete midterm and final evaluations in E*Value and to validate the student's clinical hours.

That makes faculty your first call for anything happening at the site: a schedule change that threatens your hours, a preceptor who can't cover the course population, or a concern about the learning environment. Drexel does not publish whether faculty make in-person or virtual site visits for NP students, so ask your course faculty how they check in.

Keep your own record of dates and hours alongside E*Value. If the numbers ever disagree, a dated personal log makes the conversation with faculty and your preceptor short.

CNHP Student Services assigns graduate academic advisors by program. An associate director handles MSN FNP and FNP certificate students, and senior academic advisors cover the pediatric tracks and, separately, PMHNP, AGACNP, FNP with Emergency Specialization, Emergency NP and the DNP. Registration and advising run through DrexelOne, and advisors are preparing a personal transition plan for each continuing student ahead of the Fall 2027 semester switch.

Questions about where Drexel may enroll you or place clinicals go to sara@drexel.edu, the state authorization mailbox; moving mid-program has its own checklist on moving during clinicals. General program questions go to the CNHP program team at CNHPGraduateDivision@drexel.edu.

Drexel's staff approve, clear and contract. What most students need on top of that is search capacity, and that is where we come in. A placement advisor takes your track, course and quarter, finds a preceptor and site that match Drexel's rules and your course population, and confirms the clinician's availability for the hours before anything goes to Drexel.

We then assemble what each Drexel desk will want: the clinician's CV, license and certification proof for your track director, the site's signing contact for Clinical Compliance, and the site's own onboarding steps for you. Drexel makes the final call; we make sure the file it reviews is complete on arrival. When a preceptor leaves midway, we stay on call and restart the search for you. Start on the contact page.