Your practicum, carried by the network.
Practicumconnect is the placement network that universities, health systems and agencies put their professionals on when a preceptor or a field site is needed by a date. Delegates rule, marshals file, and the roll already holds the sites, so a placement is drawn from names ruled on rather than hunted for after you ask.
Est. 2016 · delegates in 47 states
States with delegates and marshals holding sites on the roll. The roll reaches all fifty.
The floor: what the network does.
One body holds the preceptor search, the school paperwork, the compliance file, the hour log and the closing packet, matched to the program's own rules and reported every Friday until the term closes.
Delegates rule
A clinical or behavioral delegate rules on whether a rotation genuinely carries the hours a program counts, before it is offered.
Marshals file
Placements marshals run the calendar and the filings: agreements, credentials, compliance, hour logs.
The roll holds
Every site sits on the roll under its state, its license and its specialty, beside the programs it has carried. Inventory, not a search.
The roll.
Every program the network carries, and what the roll holds for it.
Where the delegates are.
Forty-seven states with delegates and marshals holding sites. Name yours when you open a file; the marshal answers for it specifically.
Six motions to a signed site.
In order, every time. The license and the attendance are yours; the six motions are the network's.
File
Program, state, hours, term date. The delegate reads the handbook before anyone answers.
Roll call
The marshal draws sites already on the roll for that program and that state.
Ruling
The delegate rules each one in or out against the handbook and, for counseling, the board.
Approval
You choose from what was ruled in. Nothing reaches a site before you do.
Packet
Agreement and credentials go to the school in its own template, countersigned and filed.
The bulletin
Compliance dated past the term, hours banked weekly, the next date always named.
Institutions on the floor.
Cohorts get one file, one marshal and one bulletin. The head of member care answers for every placement in it, the affiliation office receives its own templates back, compliance is finished before orientation, and the placement office reads the bulletin every Friday.
The delegates and the marshals.
Clinicians rule; marshals file. All six.
Dr. Amara O.
Rules on every shortlist before it reaches the floor. Family and primary-care rotations, and the delegate who says whether a site's hours are the program's hours.
Dr. Felix H.
Psychiatric and counseling placements. Rules on every telehealth motion against the program's handbook and the licensing board's rule, in that order.
Rosa M.
Custodian of the roll: every preceptor and field site in fifty states, indexed by license, then specialty, with the programs each has carried marked beside it.
Reports from the floor.
Members, after the term closed. Twelve reports, by program.
Eight weeks to the term. The marshal had three family practices on the roll by Friday, the delegate ruled on them Monday, and the agreement was signed before add/drop. Nobody else I called could even give me a date.
The behavioral delegate ruled out a telehealth site before it was offered, because my handbook would have refused it. That one ruling saved my whole semester.
Field placement with a licensed field instructor, twenty minutes away, already on the roll. The learning contract went to my school in the format they use.
Questions from the floor.
How fast can the network carry a placement?
Faster than a search, because the roll already exists. A file opened with the program, the state and the term date usually has a delegate-ruled shortlist within days, and an agreement signed within two to three weeks where the school's affiliation office moves at its usual pace. A placement opened inside the last fortnight before a term is carried as an urgent motion, and the marshal tells you at once whether the roll can meet the date.
Which states does the network cover?
Delegates and marshals hold sites in 47 states, and the roll reaches all fifty. Coverage is deepest where the programs the network carries enroll most: the Midwest, the South, Texas, the Mid-Atlantic and the Mountain West. Name the state when you open a file and the marshal answers for it specifically.
What is on the roll?
The roll is arranged by state, then license, then specialty, and every site carries a note of the programs it has served. In nursing: the NP tracks, DNP and MSN practicum, RN-to-BSN hours. In behavioral health: counseling and marriage-and-family internships. In the field: MSW and BSW placement, and applied practice for MPH and MHA.
Who rules on a site before it is offered?
A delegate, never a marshal alone. The clinical delegate rules on nursing sites and the behavioral delegate on psychiatric and counseling sites, each against the program's handbook and, for counseling, the licensing board's supervision rule. A site that fails the ruling stays on the roll and is not offered.
Can an institution put a whole cohort on the floor?
Yes. One file per cohort, opened by the university, health system or agency. The head of member care is the single name that answers for it; the affiliation office gets its packets in its own template; compliance is finished before orientation; and the Friday bulletin lands on the placement office's desk every week.
What will the network not carry?
A grade, a named preceptor on demand, or a placement a program's handbook forbids. Those are said on the floor, before a file opens and before any fee.
Open a file.
Program, state, term date. A delegate reads the handbook; a marshal answers within one working day. A cohort goes on the institutional file.
Filed
Filed. A delegate reads the handbook first; a marshal answers within one working day with what the roll holds in your state.