Clinicals for the Nurse Educator (NED) concentration include a combination of didactic content and direct care for advanced physical assessments. The didactic portion is set up in a Canvas shell and includes readings, lectures, videos, quizzes, assignments and discussion boards. Clinical hours will be completed individually with a preceptor; examples include wound care specialist; clinic or offices; an acute care unit; nurse midwife; an outpatient center, PACU or surgery center. Students must complete at least 50 hours of clinical.

Clinicals within the NED capstone course include working with an academic or educational preceptor; the preceptor needs to be working as an educator in academia or the workplace. Students complete a project that is about education and teaching. Students must complete approximately 100 to 150 hours.

Clinical hours in the Nurse Executive Leadership concentration entail spending 100 clinical hours with an MSN prepared nursing leader who is in a management role (nurse manager or above).

These hours include but are not limited to shadowing the day-to-day operations in the leader role, attending meetings, or developing a mini-capstone project that will benefit the department/organization for where the student is attending clinical.