Nebraska and Drexel: a closed list, and the rules worth knowing anyway

Drexel lists excluded home states program by program, and Nebraska turns up on all four nursing lists this site covers: the NP tracks and certificates, the post-master's DNP, the RN-to-BSN, and both advanced-role MSNs, Nursing Education and Leadership. Wyoming is the only other state on every one.

Drexel publishes no reasons, and it describes the lists as applying at this time, so they can change. Send questions about a particular program to sara@drexel.edu, and see Drexel state authorization for each list in full.

Nebraska's Board of Nursing, housed in the DHHS Licensure Unit, approves the pre-licensure programs that teach Nebraska residents. Programs for nurses who already hold a license sit outside its remit, whatever their format, so RN-to-BSN and APRN clinicals face no Board approval step. Schools arrange preceptors directly with facilities, and for post-licensure education the school sets the preceptor qualifications.

Licensing is where Nebraska does draw lines. DHHS follows NCSBN's view that practice happens wherever the student is, so faculty need a license in the student's state, and anyone teaching APRN students located in Nebraska needs Nebraska APRN licensure.

Watch the board structure too. Until mid-2026, DHHS rosters named a standalone APRN board. The July and September 2026 rosters no longer do; the Board of Nursing now lists members from APRN, CNS and CNM backgrounds whose terms began July 1, 2026. It looks like a merger, but no statute saying so was found.

AANP rates Nebraska full practice once a new NP has worked 2,000 hours with a supervising provider's oversight. Nebraska's multistate RN licenses date from January 19, 2018, when it implemented the Nurse Licensure Compact; it hasn't enacted the APRN Compact.

The state's large systems, across Omaha, Lincoln and Grand Island, include Nebraska Medicine, Children's Nebraska, Bryan Health, CHI Health and Methodist Health System. Our research found no Nebraska preceptor incentive.

For a current Drexel NP student, a move to Nebraska is a question for Drexel before it's a logistics problem. Drexel's compliance guidance says plainly that a new home state may stand in the way of finishing clinicals. Before committing, give your advisor and Drexel's state authorization mailbox the date and your next clinical course.

Leaving Nebraska for a state Drexel admits changes the picture: from then on, both admission and your clinical plan run through that state's rules. Moving during Drexel clinicals sets out the order of steps.

When your new address is in a state Drexel admits, we plan your NP clinicals from the first course: the right preceptors for your track, sites willing to sign Drexel's affiliation agreement, and your license question settled for the new state. How it works shows the sequence. Drexel approves every placement, and every document it reviews arrives from us complete.