West Virginia clinicals for Drexel NP students

No Drexel exclusion list mentions West Virginia. Every NP track and NP certificate admits residents, as do the DNP and the RN-to-BSN, and AGPCNP certificate students can log their 640 hours at West Virginia sites or in Pennsylvania.

The state's metros are modest, so many plans involve driving, and Drexel tells NP students plainly that they may need to travel. Morgantown sits within reach of southwestern Pennsylvania, the eastern panhandle shares the Hagerstown-Martinsburg metro with Maryland, and Huntington's metro stretches into Kentucky and Ohio.

Pre-licensure education is the only kind of program the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses oversees. An out-of-state pre-licensure program applies for approval before it uses West Virginia facilities; advanced-degree and graduate programs are sent instead to their national accreditor and to WVHEPC, the higher education commission.

The commission's nursing education office lists just two triggers for requiring its sign-off on clinicals by graduate and APRN programs from other states: the institution is not an NC-SARA member, or it has ten or more students at a single site. If you want confirmation of how Drexel stands, its state authorization office answers at sara@drexel.edu.

The same WVHEPC guide sets out licensing for graduate students training in the state. If you call West Virginia home, you need a valid West Virginia RN license; if you live in another state, you need a multistate (eNLC) license. West Virginia has held compact membership since January 19, 2018.

That fits comfortably with Drexel's compliance page, which accepts the multistate license your home state issues. Drexel's NP program pages add a Pennsylvania license before clinicals, so a West Virginia resident should have Clinical Compliance confirm whether a multistate West Virginia license is enough. Both Drexel statements are set out on the Pennsylvania RN license page.

AANP classifies West Virginia as reduced practice. For the first three years of prescribing, an NP must work under a physician collaborative agreement, and NP prescriptions for Schedule II narcotics stop at a three-day supply. Expect newer preceptors to have a collaborating physician behind them and a narrower controlled-substance picture than in some neighboring states.

Drexel judges every preceptor the same way regardless: the right role, current board certification, a West Virginia license and twelve months of practice. A collaborating physician in a Drexel-approved specialty can serve as a second preceptor. Details are on Drexel preceptor requirements.

Systems students approach include Marshall Health Network around Huntington, Vandalia Health (CAMC in Charleston, Mon Health and Davis Health belong to it) and WVU Medicine. The in-state populations are small: about 200,000 in the Charleston metro, about 185,000 on the West Virginia side of Huntington-Ashland and about 142,000 around Morgantown. These are places students look, not sites confirmed for Drexel.

If your county is far from those hubs, a site over the border may be closer. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Ohio are all open to Drexel clinicals; see Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio. No West Virginia preceptor incentive turned up in research.

West Virginia searches reward persistence and local knowledge, and we bring both. We work Charleston, Morgantown, Huntington and the panhandle, and cross the border when that's closer, for preceptors who meet Drexel's standards, then organize each preceptor's documents and the site's contracting contact for Drexel. Drexel approves every placement; what it receives from us is complete the first time, and we keep searching on your behalf if a preceptor drops.