Post's Clinical Coordinator and the other roles behind your clinicals
At Post University, the Clinical Coordinator (the catalog also says NP Clinical Coordinator) approves every clinical site and preceptor and decides whether you may take part in a clinical course. Around that desk sit the Practicum Coordinator, a compliance officer, your Student Success Advisor and the Academic Affairs staff who contract new sites. Knowing which role owns which question saves days you rarely have to spare.
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Who does what, in one table
Post names roles rather than people in its published material, and so does this page. The duties below come from the 2025-26 catalog, Post's state approvals page and a Post job posting for the NP program.
| Role | What Post says the role handles | Go to this role when |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical Coordinator (NP Clinical Coordinator) | Approves each site and preceptor, reviews documents, decides whether you may join a clinical course; clinical-hour extensions | You need a yes on a site, a preceptor or a setting question |
| Assistant clinical coordinator (NP) | Typhon setup for students, helping preceptors into Typhon and through evaluations, the preceptor bank (from a 2022 job posting) | A preceptor needs help with Typhon |
| Practicum Coordinator | Approves non-NP MSN and DNP preceptors (with the Clinical Coordinator), evaluates practice experiences, receives exception requests | You are in a non-NP MSN or DNP course, or need an alternate preceptor |
| Compliance officer | Works with the clinical coordinator so state requirements for clinicals are met | A state rule or board notice affects your plan |
| Student Success Advisor | Course planning, registration approval, copied on incomplete requests | You are sequencing courses or registering |
| Academic Affairs staff | Reach the site contact within seven business days of an affiliation agreement request | A new site needs a contract |
The Clinical Coordinator: where approval happens
Every preceptorship passes through this desk. The catalog makes the student responsible for choosing the site and the preceptor and makes the Clinical Coordinator responsible for approving both. The same office reviews the documents in your clinical file and decides whether you may take part in the clinical course, which is why an incomplete packet at the end of Week 1 ends in removal rather than a warning.
Two other decisions sit here. Extensions that involve clinical hours go through the Clinical Coordinator rather than the ordinary extension request, and the Coordinator is the person to ask about gray areas Post's published rules leave open, such as whether a walk-in clinic counts as primary care or whether one preceptor may host two of your courses.
The Coordinator's part is to review a finished file; the search itself stays with you. Send questions early, one topic per message, with your course code, the term, the site and the preceptor named. The placement process overview shows where each review falls.
Behind the desk: Typhon and the preceptor bank
A Post job posting for an assistant clinical coordinator in the MSN NP program describes the work that supports the Coordinator: uploading students into Typhon and keeping its preceptor details accurate, helping preceptors with Typhon access and student evaluations, organizing each term's placement documents and exceptions, and assisting with "management of the preceptor bank." The posting dates from 2022 and no later Post source confirms the bank, so the division of tasks may have changed, but it is a fair picture of where preceptor questions land.
That matters to your preceptor. When a preceptor has trouble reaching Typhon or finding an evaluation, Post's clinical team is the place to direct them, and telling the preceptor so at the start lowers the chance of a missing evaluation at the end of the term. The catalog's own name for Typhon is "the student tracking system"; the Typhon guide explains hour logs and evaluations.
The Practicum Coordinator and the compliance officer
The Practicum Coordinator is the desk for students outside the NP tracks. Post's catalog has preceptors for the non-NP MSN and the DNP approved by the "Practicum or Clinical Coordinator," says practice experiences are evaluated by the Practicum Coordinator, and sends the Exception to Preceptor Requirements form, with the alternate preceptor's CV or resume, to the practicum coordinator. American Sentinel's 2021 catalog described hours being tracked in Typhon by a Practicum Coordinator faculty member. The practice experiences page covers those courses.
The compliance officer appears on Post's state approvals page: students "will work with the clinical coordinator and compliance officer" within the nursing school to meet state requirements for clinical experiences. That is the pairing to involve when a state board wants notice of your clinical plan, which some boards expect as much as 60 days ahead. The board notification page sets out that timing.
Your Student Success Advisor
Post assigns every nursing student a Student Success Advisor on enrollment. The advisor helps plan courses, approves registration requests made through the Student Portal and is copied when you ask for an incomplete. You will find the advisor under the "My Team" tile at my.post.edu, next to your admission and financial aid advisors.
For clinicals, the advisor matters most on sequence. NP students take one course per 8-week term, and a preceptorship cannot be registered for, or its hours logged, while CastleBranch is out of compliance. When a placement is at risk, tell your advisor as well as the Clinical Coordinator, because the advisor can see how a delay shifts every later course and your program time limit.
Academic Affairs and the site contract
When your site has no agreement with Post, you file a request through the Affiliation Agreement Tracker, and a member of the Academic Affairs staff reaches out to the site contact you entered within seven business days. The contract then moves between Post and the site until it is fully executed.
The contact you put on the form shapes the pace. Name the person who can sign or route contracts, often a practice manager or a health system's education office, rather than the preceptor. Tell that person to expect Post's message so it is answered rather than filed. The affiliation agreement guide covers the rest.
Credentialing questions have their own route: Post's NP disclosure tells students to ask admissions or advising for a credentialing specialist when licensure in a state is unclear.
Why Post students bring us in
Each of these roles reviews, approves or contracts; the search and the assembly of the file fall to you. That is the work Post Preceptor takes on. We find a site and preceptor that fit your course and your approved state, confirm the preceptor meets Post's credential and conflict rules, collect the license report, certification and CV, get the agreement letter signed and prepare your Tracker request with the right site contact.
What reaches the Clinical Coordinator is complete and within Post's rules the first time, which keeps every conversation with these offices short and focused. Start through the contact page.
Questions Post students ask
Is the NP Clinical Coordinator the same as the Clinical Coordinator?
Post's catalog uses both names for the role that approves NP clinical sites and preceptors; it says NP preceptors are chosen by students and approved by the Nurse Practitioner Clinical Coordinator. Treat them as one desk unless Post tells you otherwise. Non-NP MSN and DNP students deal with the Practicum or Clinical Coordinator instead.
Will the Clinical Coordinator find a preceptor for me?
Post's model assigns the search to the student and the approval to the Coordinator. The catalog does point students to the tracking system directory as a place to start, and it is reasonable to ask the Coordinator how to use it for your area, but the choice and the outreach remain yours or a service's you engage.
Who do I ask for more time to finish clinical hours?
The Clinical Coordinator. Post routes extensions that involve clinical hours through that office rather than the standard extension process. Ask before the term ends, and remember that an NP student with an open extension cannot begin the next course, so the request affects your schedule as well as your hours.
How do I find out who my Student Success Advisor is?
Sign in to the Student Portal at my.post.edu and open the My Team tile, which lists your advisors. Post assigns nursing students a Student Success Advisor at enrollment, and that advisor approves registration requests and helps plan the order of your courses.
Who checks that my clinicals meet my state board's rules?
Post's state approvals page says students work with the clinical coordinator and the compliance officer in the nursing school to meet state requirements for clinical experiences. Raise any board notice early, since Post warns that some boards expect it up to 60 days before clinicals begin.
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Last checked 2026-09-27
We check these pages against Post University's own catalog, program pages and published nursing documents. Your course faculty and the Clinical Coordinator have the final word.
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