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Pediatric students need hours with children from newborns to teens. Pediatric practices and children’s hospitals are where they find them.

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PNPPediatric Nurse Practitioner
  • Pediatric practices
  • Children’s hospitals
  • School-based health centers
  • Pediatric urgent care

In person

Your student joins you for well-child visits, sick visits and developmental care.

Virtually

Pediatric telehealth visits, where the student’s school accepts them.

The students

Primary care and acute care PNP students in MSN, post-master’s and DNP programs.

What schools usually ask of you

  • An active, unrestricted PNP or FNP license, or a pediatrician’s MD or DO license
  • Board certification in your specialty
  • A pediatric patient panel

Each school sets its own rules. Our team tells you exactly what your student’s school needs.

NP clinical hours, explained

What we handle

  • Matching you with the right student
  • The affiliation agreement and the school’s forms
  • Evaluations, and the mentorship sessions for virtual precepting
  • Your payments, per block of hours

How do you become a pediatric NP preceptor?

The short answer

Pediatric nurse practitioner students are precepted by PNPs certified through PNCB (CPNP-PC for primary care, CPNP-AC for acute care), by FNPs with a pediatric panel, and by pediatricians. You need an active, unencumbered license and a pediatric patient population. PNCB recertifies every year, and precepting graduate PNP or FNP students is one of the professional activities it accepts toward the yearly hours.

  • 750direct patient care hours each PNP student completes
  • 2PNCB certifications: CPNP-PC and CPNP-AC
  • 1 yearPNCB’s recertification cycle
  • 7 yearsPNCB’s cycle for Pediatric Updates modules

What PNP students practice with you

PNP students care for children from newborns to young adults, in primary care or acute care:

  • Well-child visits, growth and development.
  • Immunizations and anticipatory guidance for families.
  • Common acute illnesses and injuries.
  • Chronic pediatric conditions such as asthma.
  • For acute care students, hospitalized and critically ill children.

Who precepts PNP students

Primary care PNP students learn in pediatric practices, school-based health centers and pediatric urgent care, with PNPs, FNPs who see children, and pediatricians. Acute care PNP students learn in children’s hospitals, with acute care PNPs and pediatric hospitalists and intensivists.

How PNP precepting counts toward your renewal

PNCB recertification for CPNP-PC and CPNP-AC runs every year, with a seven-year cycle for its Pediatric Updates modules and pharmacology requirements. Precepting graduate PNP or FNP students is one of the professional practice activities PNCB accepts toward the yearly contact hours; its current recertification guide sets how much it counts. FNPs who precept PNP students count it under their own board’s rules.

Precepting PNP students with Preceptorate

Precept in person, or by pediatric telehealth visits where the school accepts them. You see the hours and the pay before you accept, and our team prepares the agreement and the school’s forms.

Sources

  1. National Task Force: Standards for Quality Nurse Practitioner Education, 6th edition (2022)
  2. PNCB: CPNP-PC recertification FAQs

Checked October 30, 2026. Schools build on these standards with their own guidelines, and our team tells you exactly what your student’s school asks.

PNP precepting questions

What preceptors ask us most. Anything else, our team answers.

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Can an FNP precept a PNP student?
Yes, an FNP with a pediatric panel often precepts primary care PNP students, as the program allows.
How does PNCB count precepting?
As a professional practice activity toward the yearly recertification hours, for precepting graduate PNP or FNP students.
Can I precept PNP students virtually?
Yes, through pediatric telehealth visits, where the school accepts virtual hours.
Do acute care PNP students precept in person?
Yes, in children’s hospitals and inpatient pediatric units.

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