Missouri NP students at Post University: clinicals, preceptors and the state line
Missouri RNs can enroll in any of Post University's three NP specializations, because Post's current disclosure gives the state a Yes across the FNP, AGPCNP and PMHNP. Geography shapes the clinicals: both of Missouri's biggest metros spill into a neighboring state, and only one of those neighbors is open to Post students.
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The Missouri line in Post's table
Missouri gets a Yes from Post on both questions, NP licensure and prescriptive authority, for all three MSN tracks.
| Post specialization or item | Post's answer for Missouri |
|---|---|
| Family Nurse Practitioner | Yes |
| Adult Gerontology Primary Care NP | Yes |
| Psychiatric Mental Health NP | Yes |
| License title | Certified Nurse Practitioner |
| Other requirements, license | Unencumbered, active Missouri or multistate RN license; national NP certification; collaborative agreement with a physician |
| Other requirements, prescriptive authority | DEA number |
| Governing body | Missouri State Board of Nursing |
Here the physician agreement lasts. AANP files Missouri as restricted: an NP's collaborative arrangement with a physician runs for the length of a career, and it carries rules on how many NPs a physician may take on, how charts get reviewed and controlled-substance prescribing.
What Missouri asks of a program based elsewhere
The research came up empty. It found no Missouri State Board of Nursing rule or guidance asking a nursing program from another state for approval or advance notice before placing students here. The board's chapter on programs, 20 CSR 2200-2, is written for the ones it approves itself.
The statute's student exemption, section 335.081(6)(a), speaks of students in approved schools of professional nursing without saying where a school from elsewhere stands. As a licensed RN you practice under your own license anyway. The board was not contacted for this research, so treat the Clinical Coordinator as your source on any Missouri step, and give yourself the 60-day cushion Post's catalog suggests for states whose boards want early word of a clinical plan.
Preceptors under career-long collaboration
Because every Missouri NP practices with a collaborating physician, the offices you approach will usually have both, and Post counts an MD or DO as an acceptable preceptor too. For FNP and AGPCNP students that means family medicine and internal medicine practices; for the PMHNP, psychiatric practices and behavioral health clinics that see patients across the lifespan (see PMHNP sites).
Two of the big names, Mercy and SSM Health, are St. Louis-based systems; BJC HealthCare, MU Health Care (the University of Missouri's system) and CoxHealth round out the usual list. Springfield and Columbia are the next metros after the big two. Each system runs its own student process, and nothing ties any of them to Post.
A state tax credit for community-based faculty preceptors exists (RSMo 135.690), yet its reach is narrow: physicians and PAs teaching Missouri medical or PA students. NPs are excluded as preceptors, and nursing students are excluded as learners, so it does not apply when anyone precepts a Post NP student. The preceptor page covers what precepting for Post involves.
Two big metros, two different state lines
Missouri's compact statute, section 335.360 onward, took effect on July 20, 2017, and NCSBN's implementation table shows January 19, 2018. The APRN Compact has no Missouri statute behind it.
The compact settles your RN license, but Post's table settles where NP hours may go. Kansas answered Yes in Post's 2023 version and No today, so the roughly 938,000 Kansas City metro residents on the Kansas side live in a closed state, and practices there cannot host your hours. The St. Louis metro runs the other way: about 672,000 of its people live in Illinois, which answers Yes, so an Illinois-side practice can work after Post's prior specialization approval. Tennessee, on Missouri's southeastern edge, is also a No. The detail is on the RN license page.
Why Missouri Post students choose us
We map your search to Post's table before we ever call a practice, which matters in a state where one side of Kansas City counts and the other does not. From St. Louis and the Missouri side of Kansas City to Springfield, Columbia and rural counties, we find preceptors who fit your track and take the paperwork off your plate: preceptor credentials in the form Post wants, the agreement letter signed, and the affiliation agreement requested well before your Week 1 packet comes due. If a preceptor leaves, we find the next. Request a Missouri search.
Questions Post students ask
Can my hours be at a Kansas practice in the Kansas City metro?
No. In Post's current NP table Kansas is a closed state, after sitting among the Yes states in the 2023 version, and Post admits no NP students who reside there. Clinical hours count only in approved states, so the Kansas half of the metro is out, compact license or not. The Missouri side offers plenty of practices to search.
Is notice to the Missouri board required before my clinicals?
Our research found no such Missouri requirement for programs based in other states, though nobody asked the board directly. Because Post's catalog flags boards that expect a heads-up as much as two months early, check Missouri's current stance with the Clinical Coordinator well before the term.
Will precepting me earn my preceptor a Missouri tax credit?
No. Missouri's credit is limited to physicians and PAs who precept Missouri medical or PA students in primary care. It names neither nurse practitioners as preceptors nor nursing students as learners, so no one precepting your Post hours, NP or physician, can claim it. Post preceptors volunteer, which is why an organized, complete request matters.
I live near St. Louis. Can I train on the Illinois side?
Yes, with conditions. Illinois is a Yes state for every track in Post's disclosure, but a site outside your state of residence needs Post's prior specialization approval, a license Post accepts for Illinois clinicals, and the site's own affiliation agreement. Run the plan past the Clinical Coordinator before any Illinois preceptor signs on.
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Last checked 2026-09-27
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