ACE MSN Nurse Educator Practicum Placement

It is a 200-hour supervised field experience in nursing education that you complete near the end of the American College of Education MSN Nurse Educator program. You work alongside a qualified preceptor or mentor at an approved site and carry out a defined project, building skills in teaching, curriculum design, and learner assessment.

This is an education role, not a clinical provider role. The ACE MSN Nurse Educator track is designed for nurses who want to teach, whether in an academic program, a hospital education department, or a staff-development setting. ACE does not offer a nurse practitioner program, so the practicum is never a set of NP clinical rotations and never involves diagnosing or treating patients as a provider.

ACE offers the Nurse Educator specialization through both an RN-to-MSN and a BSN-to-MSN path, and both carry the same 200-hour practicum requirement.

The program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) at the baccalaureate and master's levels.

Because ACE places the responsibility on you to secure the preceptor, the site, and the project yourself, and coordinating all three at once is genuinely hard. A working nurse juggling a full-time job rarely has a ready network of nurse educators willing to precept, and education departments field these requests constantly.

The common friction points are:

• Finding a preceptor who holds the right credentials and is willing to sign on for the full 200 hours
• Getting a site to approve an affiliation or field placement agreement
• Shaping a project that satisfies your course objectives and fits the site's real needs
• Aligning everyone's timeline so the hours start when your term does

Any one of these can push your practicum back a full term. We exist to remove all four.

We source and confirm the three things ACE requires: a qualified preceptor or mentor, an approved site, and a workable project, so your 200 hours are secured before your term begins.

Our process is straightforward:

• You share your program details, location, schedule, and any preferences for setting
• We identify a qualified nurse educator preceptor and an appropriate site
• We help shape a project that fits your ACE course objectives and the site's needs
• We coordinate the paperwork and confirm the match so you can enroll in your practicum

You still enroll, complete assignments, and earn your degree through ACE. We handle only the placement logistics.

Placement is $1,500 to $2,500 per practicum, and you pay when you are matched, not before. The exact figure within that range depends on your location and how much coordination the site and project require.

There is no charge for simply reaching out or getting an assessment of your situation. You commit only once we have a confirmed preceptor, site, and project ready for you.

Because this is a single 200-hour practicum rather than a multi-rotation NP sequence, it is one placement and one fee, not a per-rotation stack of charges.

No. ACE does not have a nurse practitioner program, and the MSN Nurse Educator practicum is not a clinical rotation and not direct patient care. It is a teaching and curriculum field experience supervised by a nurse educator preceptor or mentor.

If you have seen NP placement services that talk about 675 or 750 clinical hours across multiple specialty rotations, that is a different kind of program entirely. The ACE Nurse Educator practicum is a single 200-hour education experience, and we place it as such.