Texas BON post-masters clinical hours

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I am currently a licensed/certified and working full-time Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in Texas. I also recently finished my postmaster's certification for FNP. My program only required me to complete 300 clinical hours in family practice (I made sure I only saw adults and geriatric population for charting/documenting purposes).

I am in process of applying for licensure with Texas BON but I noticed on the "verification of completion" form that a minimum of 500 hours need to be completed to obtain licensure. The post-master's certificate program I attended took into account 300 hours from my previous masters (PNP program). I am worried Texas BON will reject my application because I did not complete those 500 hours. 

The program is fully accredited, I graduated from my PNP in 2017 and post-master's in 2021.

Does anybody know if Texas BON consider the transfer hours from my previous pnp program (or the fact that I am a licensed PNP)?

TIA!

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