UC nurse practitioner clinicals in Missouri
Apart from the tracks limited to tri-state residents, every UC program can place students in Missouri, with no extra UC form and no supplemental background check. A Missouri NP never outgrows physician collaboration, and the state's preceptor tax credit leaves NPs out. UC won't accept physician assistants as preceptors here, so the plan is NPs and physicians.
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UC programs and Missouri
UC's exclusion lists skip Missouri entirely, so online MSN, certificate, DNP and RN-to-BSN students can all train there. None of UC's state-specific extras applies: the California, North Dakota and Wyoming forms, the Kansas elective and the 18-state background check list all leave Missouri out.
| UC program | Missouri |
|---|---|
| MSN: FNP, AGPCNP, Nurse-Midwifery, WHNP, Nursing Education | Open |
| Post-master's FNP or PMHNP certificate | Open |
| DNP programs, BSN-to-DNP and post-MSN | Open |
| AGACNP (any form); AGPCNP and PNP-AC certificates | Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana residents only |
| RN-to-BSN | Open |
Precepting inside a collaborative practice arrangement
AANP files Missouri under restricted practice. Every Missouri NP stays in a collaborative practice arrangement with a physician for life, and the arrangement caps ratios, sets chart-review duties and restricts controlled substances. None of that is one of UC's criteria. What UC looks at is the preceptor's degree (master's or above), certification, time in role (one year minimum) and whether the Missouri license is unencumbered.
FNP students have the most to plan: at least three preceptors across ANNP8070, ANNP8072 and ANNP8074, no fewer than 60 hours with each, and an NP or CNM supervising no fewer than 150 of the track's 672 hours. No single preceptor can carry you through all three terms. FNP preceptors goes deeper.
UC's PA list doesn't include Missouri, so a PA can't count toward your hours here even in a clinic where PAs and NPs share the patient load.
The Missouri Board and schools from other states
Our research turned up nothing from the Missouri Board requiring a school based elsewhere to ask permission, or even to notify it, before sending students into Missouri clinics. The Board's program rules at 20 CSR 2200-2 govern the programs it approves itself. RSMo 335.081(6)(a) excuses supervised practice by students 'enrolled in approved schools of professional nursing' from licensure without saying how schools from other states fit, and the Board wasn't contacted.
For UC students that gap matters less than it would for a pre-licensure student, because you're already an RN. UC's requirement is an RN license valid in Missouri.
A preceptor tax credit that leaves NPs out
RSMo 135.690, the statute behind the Community-Based Faculty Preceptor Tax Credit, is written for Missouri-licensed physicians and physician assistants who teach Missouri medical or PA students without direct pay, in primary care rotations of 120 hours or more. Nurse practitioners and nursing students aren't in it, so neither an NP nor a physician precepting a UC nursing student can claim it. UC's thanks to preceptors takes the form of continuing education webinars rather than money; precepting UC students has what you can share.
St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Columbia
Missouri's share of the St. Louis metro came to about 2.14 million people by the Census Bureau's 2025 count, and its share of Kansas City about 1.33 million. Springfield (about 501,000) and Columbia (about 219,000) are the next markets. BJC HealthCare, CoxHealth, MU Health Care, Mercy and SSM Health are the large systems, listed as examples of where Missouri NPs work rather than places with UC agreements.
Both big metros straddle a state line. A St. Louis-area clinic in Illinois falls under Illinois, where UC may accept a PA preceptor case by case and requires its supplemental background check. On the Kansas side of Kansas City, KSBN expects a Kansas APRN-licensed preceptor; see Kansas.
License, and where we fit
Missouri's compact statute took effect July 20, 2017, and NCSBN dates its implementation to January 19, 2018, so a Missouri or multistate license satisfies UC's rule. Missouri hasn't enacted the APRN Compact. See RN license for clinicals.
Our Missouri search looks for NPs and physicians matched to your UC track, and we help you ready the paperwork your CSC will review. UC signs off on every preceptor, site and agreement. For the sequence we follow, read how it works.
Questions UC students ask
Can a Missouri NP's collaborating physician precept me too?
If your track allows physicians, yes, subject to UC's approval. FNP students may use an MD or DO in primary care, and AGPCNP students may use an MD or DO. The physician has to meet UC's preceptor standard and hold an unencumbered Missouri license, and your NP-hour minimums still apply.
Will my Missouri preceptor get the state tax credit for teaching me?
No. RSMo 135.690 covers Missouri-licensed physicians and PAs precepting Missouri medical or PA students, and nursing students and NP preceptors sit outside it. Be straightforward when you ask: UC doesn't pay preceptors, and Missouri offers no credit for precepting you.
My clinic is in the Illinois part of greater St. Louis. Whose rules apply?
Illinois's. UC applies its rules by the state where the clinical happens, so you'd need an RN license valid in Illinois and UC's supplemental background check for Illinois clinicals. Unlike Missouri, Illinois is a state where UC will consider a PA preceptor, with limited hours.
Are there any extra UC forms for Missouri clinicals?
No. The three states with extra UC forms are California, North Dakota and Wyoming, and the Kansas elective is for Kansas APRN admits. For Missouri, the work is the usual set: the Preceptor Application, the site's contact for the Educational Affiliation Agreement, and whatever onboarding the site uses.
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