Shape an ACE Nursing Practicum Search Across Michigan
AANP's map shows restricted practice for Michigan NPs, but that professional category does not define ACE's Nurse Educator and Nurse Administrator experiences. In current ACE admission material, an applicant near Detroit acknowledges access to a local clinical or practicum setting where required nursing practice may be completed.
Find the office that controls a Michigan graduate project
A nursing applicant near Detroit must acknowledge access to a local clinical or practicum setting in current ACE admission material, which makes early site planning important.
Send the same clear facts to every lead: course, component, dates, physical setting, travel boundary, mentor need, and project direction. For Marquette, record the site decision path and the person authorized to approve project access.
A sourced lead is a starting point for review, not a completed placement decision. ACE and the organization keep authority over fit, access, and hours. The immediate search area includes Detroit and Grand Rapids.
What restricted practice changes for NPs, not ACE hours
The American Association of Nurse Practitioners classifies Michigan as a restricted practice state, its most limited category. Michigan's Public Health Code never adopted a stand-alone scope of practice for nurse practitioners. Instead, an NP holds an RN license plus a specialty certification granted under MCL 333.17210, and key parts of advanced practice still run through physician involvement.
The practical dividing line is prescribing. A 2016 update to the Public Health Code allowed Michigan APRNs to prescribe nonscheduled drugs on their own authority, but prescribing controlled substances still requires delegation from a physician. Most NPs in the state therefore work inside written delegation or collaboration arrangements, with a physician somewhere in the chart flow.
Your rotations happen inside teams where delegation is routine, and watching how an experienced Michigan NP documents delegated prescribing is training you will actually use after graduation.
Near Detroit, The practice environment may shape the organization, but it does not create an ACE placement. Mentor responsibilities and project access must stand on their own; ACE has no NP or APRN track, and its Nurse Educator and Nurse Administrator practice is indirect care.
Use the Michigan record as one layer of review
The Michigan Board of Nursing sits inside the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), Bureau of Professional Licensing, in Lansing. It licenses RNs and grants the APRN specialty certifications Michigan recognizes: nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, and clinical nurse specialist.
Verification of national certification must be sent to the Bureau directly by the certifying body, so build lead time into any post-graduation licensure plan.
A public nursing record can answer a licensing question for the Grand Rapids search, but it cannot establish ACE academic fit. The organization still controls onboarding, project data, meeting access, and the mentor's capacity. Keep a dated verification and compare the legal name with the candidate materials.
Keep NUR5094 and NUR5194 in their correct roles
Do not blur the Detroit hour request: NUR5043 stands alone with 50 practice hours in organizational systems.
The next administration component is NUR5094, ACE's 150-hour Nurse Administrator capstone, supported by a nurse leader near Grand Rapids.
The next education component is NUR5194, ACE's 150-hour Nurse Educator capstone, supported by a nurse educator near Marquette.
A complete pathway calculation reaches 200 hours. ACE gives RN-to-MSN the explicit 200-hour practicum experience description and lists the BSN-to-MSN requirements as separate 50 and 150-hour components. Keep the Detroit schedule labeled by course so the capstone is never treated as one combined course.
Plan Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula searches separately
A nursing school, simulation program, or hospital education office may support the educator focus. A quality department, operations team, or nursing service line may support the administrator focus. Learn whether a health system uses one graduate-project office or permits individual departments to decide.
Metro Detroit across Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties has the largest system pool. Grand Rapids, Lansing, Ann Arbor, Flint, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, and Traverse City support the Lower Peninsula. Marquette anchors an Upper Peninsula search with longer travel.
A workable Detroit option needs an organization that permits the proposed role, meetings, schedule, and project resources. A willing individual cannot grant access owned by an education office, employer, health system, or academic program.
Anchor the term to an in-person organization
Start with a physical address and in-person participation near Detroit. Online course delivery does not settle the practicum format or remove the physical-site baseline.
For a remote component near Grand Rapids, require written ACE, course, site, and state permission before scheduling it; the idea is conditional and approval or credit cannot be guaranteed.
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Good to know
Why identify the Michigan system's project office first?
A department manager may be interested but unable to authorize student status, privacy access, project data, or organizational supervision.
How do Lower and Upper Peninsula searches differ?
The Lower Peninsula has several large markets. Upper Peninsula students often face longer travel and a smaller mentor pool centered around Marquette.
Does restricted practice change ACE's course hours?
No. Michigan's category concerns licensed NP practice. ACE still publishes NUR5043 at 50 hours and the selected capstone at 150.
Can online classes make a Michigan practicum remote?
Do not assume so. Keep a physical organization, and treat any remote component as conditional on written ACE, course, site, and state permission.
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