North Carolina and Post University's nurse practitioner tracks
North Carolina gets a Yes on every line of Post University's current NP disclosure: family (FNP), adult-gerontology primary care (AGPCNP) and psychiatric mental health (PMHNP). The North Carolina Board of Nursing keeps its hands off post-licensure graduate programs, so the approvals that shape your clinicals come from Post, and your North Carolina or multistate RN license is the ticket in.
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Post's North Carolina entry
Put simply, Post's coursework meets the education side of North Carolina's NP license and prescribing authority on every track. Study is fully online with no trips to Waterbury. Clinical time is the local part, 540 precepted primary care hours for family and adult-gerontology students or 630 psychiatric hours for PMHNP students, logged in North Carolina.
| Post specialization or column | Post's answer for North Carolina |
|---|---|
| MSN Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) | Yes |
| MSN Adult Gerontology Primary Care NP (AGPCNP) | Yes |
| MSN Psychiatric Mental Health NP (PMHNP) | Yes |
| License title | Nurse Practitioner |
| Education met for NP license / prescriptive authority | Yes / Yes |
| Other requirements Post lists | Unencumbered, active North Carolina or multistate RN license; national NP certification; collaborative agreement with a physician; DEA number optional for prescribing |
| Governing body | North Carolina Board of Nursing |
Why the NCBON is not in your approval chain
The Board's education FAQ is plain on this point. Post-licensure graduate nursing programs, whether North Carolina schools or out-of-state ones, get neither approval nor disapproval from it, and RN-BSN, graduate and doctoral programs sit outside its jurisdiction.
The rule you may see quoted, 21 NCAC 36 .0233, is about unlicensed students from out-of-state programs, the pre-licensure crowd. Under it, the host agency's top nurse executive, or an RN delegate, sends the Board a request 30 or more days ahead of the first clinical day. A licensed RN in a Post MSN falls outside that filing.
Two Board statements still touch Post students. SARA membership came to North Carolina in June 2016; per the Board, that can open in-state field placements to a student whose SARA-approved college teaches the didactic courses. A master's or doctoral student licensed only through a single-state license from elsewhere gets a different instruction: contact the Board's Licensure Department about requirements first. State board notice covers Post's own 60-day warning.
Preceptors who practice under a physician agreement
AANP classes North Carolina as restricted: NPs stay tied to a physician by agreement for as long as they practice, and NP licensure runs through a Joint Subcommittee formed by the nursing and medical boards. Under Post's catalog, the physician on that agreement could precept you too, though NPs are preferred; Post's preceptor rules give the full standard.
The Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia metro holds the most people, roughly 2.48 million in-state residents, with Raleigh-Cary next, then Greensboro-High Point, and Winston-Salem fourth. Large employers include Duke Health, ECU Health, UNC Health, Novant Health and Advocate Health's Atrium Health. Those names help you map where clinics are; none has agreed to host Post students. FNP and AGPCNP hours need primary care, and PMHNP hours need mental health settings serving every age group.
Your license and the neighboring states
North Carolina's compact participation began January 19, 2018, and no APRN Compact law has passed here. A multistate RN license from North Carolina fits Post's license line and carries RN practice into Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia, each a Yes state in Post's table.
Tennessee is the outlier to the west. It belongs to the compact, yet Post's table marks it No, so a practice over the Tennessee line cannot count. A site in Virginia, South Carolina or Georgia can, once Post approves clinicals outside your home state; because the Charlotte metro straddles the state line, a South Carolina site may be nearer than you think. License rules for clinicals explains the approval.
Why North Carolina's Post students choose us
Where every NP practices under a physician agreement, we talk to both clinicians when it helps, so the practice agrees once and the right person signs. We search around Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and the smaller towns in between for sites that fit your Post course, and make sure the packet reaching Post is complete well before Week 1. If a preceptor leaves mid-term, your replacement search begins at once. Share your track and ZIP code.
Questions Post students ask
Is Post's NP program approved by the NCBON?
It approves no post-licensure graduate program, in North Carolina or out of it, so its silence on Post says nothing bad about Post. What counts for you is Post's NP disclosure, which lists North Carolina as Yes for all three tracks, and Post's own approvals: the Clinical Coordinator's review of the practice and the preceptor, then a signed affiliation agreement.
Can a Charlotte-area student do clinical hours in South Carolina?
It can work. The Charlotte metro spills into South Carolina, a compact state that Post's table opens for every NP track, so your North Carolina multistate license already covers RN practice there. Post must approve the out-of-state clinical in advance, and the South Carolina office signs its own affiliation agreement with Post.
Is a physician an acceptable preceptor for a North Carolina Post student?
Yes, within limits. Physicians (MD or DO) appear on Post's 2025-26 list of acceptable preceptors, yet Post wants an NP guiding you in two or more clinical courses and would rather see NPs in every one. Because North Carolina NPs work under physician agreements, one practice can often supply both kinds of preceptor.
I live in Virginia. Can my Post clinicals be in North Carolina?
Possibly. North Carolina is a Yes state, and a Virginia multistate RN license covers RN practice there. You would still need Post's advance approval for training outside Virginia and a signed agreement between Post and the North Carolina site. The NCBON's instruction to call its Licensure Department is aimed at graduate students whose only license is a single-state one from elsewhere.
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Last checked 2026-09-27
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Post asks you to select your own preceptor. We make the search the easy part.
Tell us your Post track, your city and your next preceptorship course. We line up preceptors who fit the course, collect the license report, certification and CV the Clinical Coordinator reviews, and start the affiliation agreement early so your Week 1 packet is complete before the term opens.
- Preceptors matched to the course: primary care for FNP and AGPCNP, mental and behavioral health for PMHNP, doctoral nurse leaders for DNP hours
- Preceptor agreement letter, license report, certification and CV ready for Post's approval
- Every preceptorship planned together, close to home in a state where you hold your license and Post's disclosure says yes
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