1. Apply
Ten minutes on the form: credential, population, state, the hours you could give each week, mode, and a line about your practice. A coordinator replies within one business day saying whether the three eligibility checks hold for you and what is open for that profile.
2. Verify once
Upload a CV, your license, your certification and a short description of your practice. The license is checked against the state board and the certification against its issuing board. Those four documents then travel to every program that considers you, so you assemble them once.
3. Agreement
A program may only place a student under an affiliation agreement with the practice where the student will be. If yours already holds one it is confirmed; if not, a coordinator drafts one in the school's own template and sends it to whoever signs for your practice. One to two weeks, on the program's clock.
4. Orientation
Ninety minutes by video before your first student: how the student log works, the two evaluations you will sign, how to hand a patient to a learner without losing the hour, and two teaching methods that survive a full clinic day. Useful, and not accredited continuing education.
5. A card, and your answer
One rotation described in six fields: program, course, dates, hours, population, and the mode the program permits, with a note from the student. You have seventy-two hours to answer. Yes releases names in both directions and the student contacts you to arrange the first day.
6. The rotation and the two deposits
Your student arrives having read your onboarding note. You teach on the days you offered, the student logs hours, you sign the midpoint evaluation and the first half is deposited, then you sign the final and the second half follows. A named coordinator stays on the rotation throughout.
Where the three weeks go
Nearly all of the wait is the agreement. A placement office compares your documents against its handbook and then signs with your practice on its own schedule. A clinic that already holds an agreement with the school clears in days; a large health system with a legal department takes the longer end of the range.
After that the academic calendar decides. Cards are released for January, May and August starts, so a nurse verified in October may wait for the new year while one verified in April sees several in a fortnight.