NPHub

Struggling with clinical hours for nurse practitioners doesn't mean you're not trying hard enough. Programs require hundreds of hours but leave placement up to you. Two students get into why that's the real problem in this episode. Link in bio to find your preceptor.

Driving clinic to clinic on her days off. Dropping off resumes. Zero callbacks. 🩺

Then paid a service that went quiet for a week at a stretch. Set up a meeting with a preceptor who had never actually been contacted.

Had to fight just to get her money back. 💸

The whole time, a deadline she couldn't move. Miss it and she waits a full year.

Then she found NPHub. Hours, location, school requirements.

Done in about a day. ✅

💬 "I felt like my hand was held throughout the entire process."

Save this if the search is wearing you down 🔖 Send it to the classmate still driving clinic to clinic.

NPHub.com — link in bio 🔗

There are likely fewer than 20,000 acute care NPs in the entire country. 🤯
That's why Michael couldn't find a rotation.
He works in a hospital, so he figured the hospitalist rotation would be the easy one. 😅
It was the hardest.
He used his work email. His connections. Friendships across the whole system.
His school had a safety net: collect three rejection letters, and they'd step in to help him find placement.
The catch? He couldn't even get a rejection letter. Providers didn't say no, he just got ghosted. 👻
And every hour spent researching the right people and chasing them down was an hour stolen from studying.
Then it changed.
Through NPHub, he stopped chasing and started choosing. 📲
He could browse real acute care sites and lock one in the same day — instead of waiting weeks for a reply that never came.
5 rotations secured across acute inpatient and urgent care. ✅
💾 Save this if you're an acute care student stuck in the search.
📩 Send it to a classmate who's getting ghosted too.

She works at a hospital. She even found a pediatrics preceptor there, at her own workplace. 🏥
Then her school said they couldn't use them.

She works at a hospital that pays tuition at her school. Her school still won't let her precept there. 😳
Here's the thing: Ashlei wasn't new to this. She'd already placed two rotations herself through networking. She knew how to do this.

But pediatrics is a tough specialty. Every site near her was booked, and she was two weeks from her paperwork deadline. ⏰

So she signed up with NPHub, almost out of time.

They found a preceptor who already had students, reached out on her behalf, and got the yes. ✅
Electronic signatures, paperwork handled, and staff who knew her name every time she called. 💬
She finished her hours early, earned an extra week off, and has one rotation left. 🙌

Her advice for anyone stuck: "don't hesitate ... you've got nothing to lose."

Save this for when pediatrics is the rotation standing in your way. 📌
And send it to the classmate who's still stuck searching. 💛

What happens when your preceptor falls through mid-rotation? 😬

For most, it’s a total scramble: frantic emails, delayed timelines, and falling behind on clinical hours. Don’t get stuck in that nightmare or risk your graduation date. ⏳

Jeremy’s experience: “They have been so helpful, especially during times when I needed to replace a preceptor quickly or when I needed someone right away.”

Secure your backup plan before the crisis hits. Don’t leave your clinicals to chance. 🚀

Most NP students think there just aren't enough preceptors near them. That's not actually the problem. There's no real system to find the ones who are already out there. This podcast episode breaks down that exact mix-up, and how NPHub solved it with a match in 15 minutes. Link in bio to find your preceptor.

She called 100+ clinics trying to find one preceptor. 📞
Every single one told her the same thing: “call or email this person.”
Elizabeth is an FNP student in LA, and she’s also a mom of two. 👶
She was working full-time while finishing her coursework. 📚
Her mornings looked like this:
⏰ Wake up early because clinics open at 8.
📋 Work through a list of 20 calls on her days off.
📧 Send emails in between everything else.
She did that for one to two months, and nobody called back.
By March, she told her husband she might have to take a break because she tried harder than anyone should have to. 💔
Then she stopped searching and finally got some help. 🙌
The paperwork that used to mean the runaround got handled by text, same day. ⚡
In her words: “it was so much easier.” 💛
If you’re calling clinic #47 today, you are not the problem. The system is.
📌 Save this and send it to the classmate who’s still searching.