Wyoming and Drexel nursing: the rule, the state's requirements, the next step

Drexel keeps a separate exclusion list for each program group on its State Regulations page, and Wyoming appears on every nursing list with clinical or practicum hours:

• MSN NP tracks, FNP with Emergency Specialization included
• Post-master's NP certificates, the Emergency/Trauma NP certificate included
• The online post-master's DNP
• The RN-to-BSN
• The Nursing Education and Leadership MSNs

The exclusion is Drexel's and follows your home address. Drexel presents it as current, so recheck the page before you plan and send questions to sara@drexel.edu. The state authorization page sets every list side by side.

Under Chapter 6 of its rules, Wyoming's nursing board treats outside programs two ways. Pre-licensure schools must ask permission. Post-licensure programs, from RN-to-BSN through MSN, DNP and APRN, follow a lighter route:

1. Authorization to operateEither an NC-SARA approval or a Department of Education registration in Wyoming gives the school authority to operate. Drexel joined SARA in December 2016.
2. Written notice to the BoardNo Board approval is needed, but the school writes to WSBN each time a student will train clinically in Wyoming. The Board supplies a model cover letter.
3. Signed site contractSchool and site set their arrangement down in a written, signed contract ahead of the first clinical shift, and the school holds on to a copy it can show the Board on request.

Pre-licensure schools, by contrast, submit a description, a rationale, home-state approval and licensure documents, and anyone precepting or teaching at the bedside for them in Wyoming needs an active Wyoming or multistate RN or APRN license.

AANP rates Wyoming full practice. Wyoming RN licenses have carried multistate privileges since January 19, 2018. Lawmakers there went further and adopted the APRN Compact too (its text sits in Title 33 of the Wyoming Statutes, at chapter 21, article 3), joining Utah, South Dakota, North Dakota and Delaware for five enactments so far. That compact stays dormant until the count of enacting states reaches seven. No Wyoming preceptor incentive appeared in our research.

Hospitals sit far apart here. Casper's anchor is Banner Wyoming Medical Center. In Cheyenne, look to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, and in Gillette, to Campbell County Health. Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie carries a UCHealth affiliation, and Sheridan Memorial Hospital covers Sheridan. They're examples of where clinicians work, not Drexel sites. Colorado, just south of Cheyenne, is also on Drexel's NP list.

If you're a Drexel NP student and a Wyoming move is on the table, Drexel needs to hear about it first. Drexel's compliance pages note that state rules can stop a relocated student from attending clinicals. Write to Drexel's state authorization team at sara@drexel.edu and to your advisor, then read moving during Drexel clinicals for the sequence.

Heading from Wyoming to a state Drexel admits? We build your clinical plan for the new state from day one: clinicians who pass Drexel's preceptor bar, sites prepared for Drexel's affiliation agreement, and the licenses Drexel's compliance team will check. Drexel makes the approval; our part is handing its reviewers a packet with nothing missing from the start. Drexel preceptor requirements spells out the standard.