The Florida RN license FIU requires, and what it leaves open

FIU's rule, program by program

FIU's admissions pages state the license rule differently for each path, so read the one for your program rather than a classmate's.

Each row comes from FIU's own admissions or program pages. Where a row is silent on something, such as how a post-graduate certificate applicant's license is checked, put the question to the Graduate Nursing Advisor.

If your RN license is from another state

FIU's instruction is short: out-of-state applicants must get a Florida license before admission. The route to that license, and the documents it takes, are set by the Florida Board of Nursing, not by FIU.

1. Start from the Board's own pagesRead the Florida Board of Nursing's RN licensure information at floridasnursing.gov to find the route that fits a nurse already licensed elsewhere.
2. Work back from FIU's application windowThe MSN NP tracks admit once a year, for Fall, and take applications from November 1 to February 1; the DNP adds a Spring window from March 1 to August 1.
3. Hold the Florida license before admissionFIU's wording puts the license ahead of admission, so allow the Board's processing time before your admission decision.
4. Keep it current through the programFlorida's preceptorship rule looks to your RN license under chapter 464, so keep it active for every Florida rotation.
5. Confirm with FIU in writingSend the Graduate Nursing Advisor your license details and ask them to confirm they meet the requirement for your track.

Training outside Florida

Online-track students may train beyond FIU's four home counties in South Florida, but FIU's pages are silent on whether that can mean another state, or whether a license in the clinical state would be needed. Florida's rule covers Florida settings; other states set their own rules for students and preceptors.

FIU's professional licensure page stops at the state line: its programs meet Florida's requirements, and for every other state FIU has made no determination. FIU Policy 1370.001 also ties your learner location to where you study, clinicals included. Read clinicals outside South Florida, the licensure disclosure and learner location and moving, and check with the Office of Clinical Education before you look at a site in another state. A move works the same way: under that policy your reported location shapes what FIU is authorized to offer you, so report a new state before you plan clinicals there.

Why FIU students choose us

Florida's preceptorship rule and FIU's form both turn on licenses, so we verify them before a name ever reaches FIU. For every preceptor we propose, we confirm the Florida license and its expiration, the national certification and the year of experience FIU's handbook asks for, and we match the practice to your course. When a preceptor's license renewal date falls inside your term, we raise it before the request goes in.

We also find out whether the practice would be new to FIU, since a first contract adds weeks, and we prepare the rest of the request with you. Approval of the site and preceptor rests with FIU's faculty and clinical education staff; our work is making the request whole and accurate on the first pass. The how it works page shows each step, and the form below starts your search.