The AANP preceptor form lets a certified nurse practitioner turn clinical precepting hours into continuing education credit toward recertification. Download the current form from the AANPCB website under the Recertify tab, fill in your certification and precepting details, use the Preceptorship Conversion Table to translate hours into credits, and upload the completed PDF through your NPCB online profile. The ceiling is 120 preceptor hours, which converts to a maximum of 25 non-pharmacology CE hours within your five-year certification period.1American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. Continuing Education – AANPCB
Who Can Claim Precepting Hours
You qualify if you hold an active AANPCB certification and supervised graduate-level NP students, or interprofessional students from medicine, physician assistant, pharmacy, or similar programs, while practicing in your certified role and population focus.2American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. Have You Been a Preceptor for NP Students The precepting must have been organized with the student’s course faculty and academic program. Informal mentoring does not count.
All hours must fall within your current five-year certification period. Hours from a previous cycle cannot carry forward. If you hold more than one AANPCB certification, the precepting must match the population focus of the certification you are renewing.
Where to Get the Current Form
The form is posted on aanpcert.org under the Recertify tab, in the Forms section, alongside the Preceptorship Conversion Table you will need for the math.3American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. Continuing Education Opportunities – AANPCB Use the most recent version; the board updates fields periodically and an outdated form can slow your recertification. A June 2024 edition is the most recently published version at the time of writing.
What to Enter on the Form
The form is short, but the fields ask for details that are hard to reconstruct from memory. Pull everything together before you start.
Your Information
Enter your full legal name (first, middle, last), the last four digits of your Social Security number, and your AANPCB Certification Number, which begins with A, E, F, G, or AG depending on your specialty.4American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. Preceptorship Form The number is on your certification card and in your NPCB online profile. Don’t substitute an AANP membership ID; the form asks for the certification number.
Preceptorship Details
Record the begin and end dates of the preceptorship, the specific dates you precepted, and your specialty or population focus. Then enter the total preceptorship hours. The single-form maximum is 120 hours, which converts to no more than 25 non-pharmacology CE hours.4American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. Preceptorship Form Use the Preceptorship Conversion Table from the Recertification Handbook to calculate the CE equivalent, then enter that figure in the “Converted to CE Hours” field.
Indicate whether the students were enrolled in an APRN program (nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist, or clinical nurse specialist) or an interprofessional education program (medicine, physician assistant, pharmacy, or other). Enter the number of students you precepted during the period covered.
Practice Site and Program Information
Fill in the name and full address of the practice site where you supervised the students, then the name and address of the educational institution that enrolled them. The form also asks for the faculty coordinator’s name, credentials, email, and phone number.4American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. Preceptorship Form That coordinator is the person the board will contact to verify your arrangement, so confirm the details with them before submitting.
Converting Preceptor Hours to CE Credits
Preceptor hours do not translate one-to-one. The conversion table in the Recertification Handbook scales hours down, and the ceiling is firm: 120 preceptor hours yields at most 25 non-pharmacology CE hours, no matter how many additional hours you logged.3American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. Continuing Education Opportunities – AANPCB
Those 25 credits replace non-pharmacology CE only. They cannot count toward the 25 pharmacology CE hours required for recertification. Even at the maximum, you still need at least 75 additional CE hours (25 in pharmacology and 50 in other topics) to reach the 100-hour total.1American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. Continuing Education – AANPCB
How to Submit the Form
Save the completed form as a PDF to preserve formatting and any signatures, then upload it through your NPCB online profile for the fastest processing. The board recommends this file-name format: Last Name, First Name – Document Type, for example, “Smith, Sarah – Preceptorship Form.”5American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. American Academy of Nurse Practitioners National Certification Board Make sure the faculty coordinator’s contact information is complete enough for the board to follow up if needed.
You can also email the form to certification@aanpcert.org, though the board notes email takes longer to process than a direct upload.
After You Submit
The AANPCB currently lists a processing time of seven to ten business days for applications and documents.5American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. American Academy of Nurse Practitioners National Certification Board Track status through your NPCB online profile. If something is off, such as a missing faculty contact, hours outside your certification period, or a mismatched population focus, the board will request clarification through the portal or by email.
Once approved, the converted CE credits post to your recertification record and count toward your 100-hour requirement. Keep your own copy of the completed form and any correspondence with the educational institution. The board may audit CE documentation, and originals should be easy to pull.
If You Are Applying for Initial Certification
The preceptor form on the Recertify page is not for students or new graduates. Initial certification applicants provide preceptor information directly within the certification application itself. That application asks for the names, credentials, and clinical settings of each preceptor who supervised your program’s clinical hours, and it’s accompanied by an unofficial transcript and a copy of your nursing license.5American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board. American Academy of Nurse Practitioners National Certification Board