Maryland: open to Drexel NP students without restriction

Drexel names Maryland alongside four program groups, NP, DNP, RN-to-BSN and Advanced Role MSN, and places no limits on any of them. You can enroll from Maryland and log clinical hours at Maryland sites once Drexel's usual contracting and compliance steps are done. AGPCNP certificate students may place their hours here or in Pennsylvania.

That wording may reflect history. A Drexel FNP graduate reported in a 2023 interview that the Maryland Board of Nursing kept her from doing clinicals in her home state. Drexel's current page reads differently, so plan from today's rule and look at it again before each clinical quarter.

Under Health Occupations § 8-301(d)(2), Maryland lets a graduate student in an accredited APRN program practice at that level, as part of the program, without a Maryland license. Research found nothing requiring schools from other states to clear their clinical placements with MBON beforehand; the Board deals with out-of-state programs mostly when their graduates apply for licensure.

That graduate-licensure angle is worth a question now. MBON must approve an NP program before certifying anyone who graduates from it as an advanced practice nurse, and a school missing from its list must submit a Program Approval Form itself. If Maryland is where you'll practice, ask Drexel whether your track already appears on MBON's list.

Maryland's compact membership dates to January 19, 2018, and its regulations (COMAR 10.27.01.03(B)) let nurses holding a multistate privilege work in Maryland under Maryland law. For a Maryland resident, a multistate Maryland license fits the route on Drexel's Clinical Compliance certification page and reaches other compact states, Pennsylvania included.

Drexel's NP program pages still say Pennsylvania licensure comes first, so have Clinical Compliance confirm which rule it will apply to you. The two statements sit side by side on the Pennsylvania RN license page.

AANP counts Maryland as full practice, with one step for newcomers: an NP declares 18 months of mentoring by a certified NP or a physician. Drexel cares about role, board certification, a Maryland license and a first year of practice already completed, so an NP still inside the mentorship window can qualify once past twelve months. Full criteria are on Drexel preceptor requirements.

The state's NP preceptor credit (Tax-General § 10-739) rewards nurse practitioners and physicians who host NP students without pay in a Board-approved preceptorship. A preceptor earns it after at least three community-based rotations of 90 or more hours each, in a part of the state MDH has flagged for a health care workforce shortage. The credit is a fixed amount per rotation, capped for each preceptor and statewide every year, and the law is set to lapse after June 30, 2030.

Here is the fine print for Drexel students: the statute describes students in a nursing program that Maryland's Board recognizes. Whether a Drexel rotation qualifies is something your preceptor should confirm with MDH before counting on it. Drexel's own thanks, the Clinical Faculty title and an end-of-term certificate of hours among them, applies either way.

Most Marylanders live in greater Baltimore, about 2.9 million people, or on the Maryland side of greater Washington, about 2.5 million, with smaller hubs around Hagerstown and Lexington Park. Systems students approach include MedStar Health, the University of Maryland Medical System, Luminis Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine and LifeBridge Health, each with its own intake process. Just over the state line, ChristianaCare counts Drexel among its graduate partners and takes students from Maryland; see Delaware.

Maryland gives you an open field. We search Baltimore, the Washington suburbs or your own county for NPs and physicians who meet Drexel's rules, point any preceptor who might qualify for the state credit toward MDH, and package the preceptor's credentials and the site's agreement contact for Drexel's contracting team. Drexel signs off on every placement; ours reach it complete and matched to its rules, and if a preceptor drops we move on the replacement at once.