Online or "Brick and Mortar" School?

[Melody007_FNP-C, APRN]

Did any of you have any difficult time in obtaining preceptors for your online program? And for those that go to a "regular" school, does the school set up your clinicals? Just trying to decide which school to attend!

[Annaiya, NP]

You can find out if the online school has any contracts with hospitals in your area. If they do, and if they have names of people who've precepted in the past it is really easy to set up clinicals. If the school doesn't have any contracts in your area and you don't have any contacts to help find preceptors, then you might want to look more at going to a local school. It just depends how much initiative you want to put into setting up a clinical site.