Indiana clinical placements for Drexel NP students

Indiana isn't named on any Drexel exclusion list. Hoosiers can apply for Drexel's NP degrees and certificates, its post-master's doctorate and its bachelor's completion program alike.

See Drexel's state authorization page if you are thinking about a move.

Indiana's Board of Nursing, part of the Professional Licensing Agency, accredits the programs operating in Indiana that prepare people for first RN or LPN licensure. RN-BSN and graduate programs, by the Board's own statement, get neither review nor accreditation from it. The rule on eligible programs, 848 IAC 1-2-4, reaches prelicensure RN and PN programs alone, and no Board approval step was found for an out-of-state graduate school placing students in Indiana.

That leaves Drexel's process in charge: NUPR 520 introduces the contracting and compliance steps, the CNHP Clinical Compliance team handles the affiliation agreement, and Drexel approves the preceptor. The clinical placement process page runs through each stage.

Indiana began issuing multistate licenses on July 1, 2020. Read Drexel's compliance page and your Indiana multistate license is enough, helped by Pennsylvania's July 2025 entry into the compact; read the program pages and you would also hold a Pennsylvania license before clinicals begin. Clinical Compliance settles which rule applies to you, and the Pennsylvania RN license page lays out the difference.

The borders split two ways. Kentucky and Ohio are compact states, so a Louisville-area site for a southern Indiana student, or an Ohio site for someone in the east, works on your Indiana multistate license. Illinois and Michigan are outside the compact. About 729,000 Hoosiers live in the Chicago metro, and a site on the Illinois side needs an Illinois RN license first.

AANP rates Indiana reduced, because every NP there works under a regulated collaborative agreement with a physician covering some part of practice. For your search, that means an Indiana NP practice has a collaborating physician attached, and either could precept if they fit Drexel's list.

Drexel's list stays short and firm: nurse practitioners, CNMs or physicians practicing in a specialty Drexel approves, with board certification, twelve months or more of experience and an Indiana license. Physician assistants are left off it. Indiana has no preceptor incentive on record, so the draw is Drexel's recognition, from the faculty title to the end-of-term hours certificate and CE savings.

The largest systems are Indiana University Health, Parkview Health, Community Health Network, Franciscan Health and Ascension St. Vincent. Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, at about 2.2 million people, is the biggest metro, and Fort Wayne is the next largest wholly inside Indiana. Drexel names no partnership with any of them; they are simply where many Indiana NP students start asking, next to independent outpatient practices.

We search the part of Indiana you actually live in, with your license map in hand: Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Northwest Indiana or the Louisville side. A placement advisor contacts NPs, CNMs and physicians who fit your Drexel track, checks each against Drexel's list and pulls together everything Drexel's contracting team asks of a new site and preceptor. Drexel decides; we make sure it sees a complete, correct file the first time. Send us your Indiana city.