NGR 6202L: the second adult-gerontology practicum and your Spring term
NGR 6202L is the Spring practicum for Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP students at Florida International University (FIU), 4 credits in semester 5 alongside NGR 6202. Its setup overlaps your first rotation, because FIU arranges placements the semester before, so the Fall is when you decide whether to stay with your first preceptor or line up a new site.
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Tell us your FIU program and where you live. A placement advisor replies with the preceptor and site options that fit your FIU course.
Where NGR 6202L falls and how FIU describes it
Under the May 2026 plan revision, which applies from Spring 2027, semester 5 pairs the NGR 6202 theory course with the NGR 6202L practicum, 7 credits in all with the practicum carrying 4. Semester 5 is also where the second practicum lands for AGPCNP certificate students and for AGPC students in the post-BSN to DNP who started in a Fall term.
The graduate handbook calls the course NGR 6202C/NGR 6202L, Advanced Adult-Gerontology Nursing II, and in its telling this is the final numbered practicum, with Clinical Decision Making (NGR 6209) and Role Synthesis (NGR 6700L) still to come. Under the new plan it is the middle of three. Either way it is your second rotation; what changes is what comes after it, which the third practicum page explains.
No FIU source gives an hour figure for NGR 6202L. Confirm the Spring target in your syllabus and with your course faculty before you book days with a preceptor.
Spring 2027 dates that shape the rotation
FIU's 2026-2027 academic calendar frames the term. FIU does not state whether NP practicums run in the 16-week main session or the 7-week sessions, so match these dates to the course dates in your syllabus.
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| January 11, 2027 | Main session and Session A begin |
| February 27, 2027 | Session A ends |
| March 1-7, 2027 | Spring break; any clinical day needs your faculty's approval by email in advance |
| March 8, 2027 | Session B begins |
| March 22, 2027 | Last day to drop a main-session course with a DR |
| April 24, 2027 | Session B ends |
| May 1, 2027 | Spring term ends; degree conferral follows on May 8 |
A DR is not a clean exit. A second DR in one course is treated as a failed course, and failed courses are what FIU counts toward dismissal. The grades and progression page and the academic calendar page go further.
Arranging NGR 6202L while you are still in NGR 6201L
Because FIU sets up rotations the semester before, the search for your Spring site runs during your Fall practicum. Count back from the calendar: eight weeks before January 11, 2027, the notice FIU's 2022 preceptor manual asks for, lands on November 16, 2026, in the middle of Fall Session B. If your Spring site is new to FIU, the current handbook's 6 to 8 week contract window points at the same week.
On the Preceptor Request Form this rotation is Clinical Practicum-II, with its own term, start and end dates, clinical days and times, and faculty signature. The end of the Fall term is crowded, with the last regular class day on December 5 and finals from December 7 to 12, so aim to have the Spring form signed well before finals. The semester-before planning page lays the timeline out month by month.
The hard part is doing this while you log Fall encounters. Block one afternoon a week in October for the Spring search, and ask your current preceptor early whether they could host you again.
Keep your first preceptor or change sites?
Under the handbook, each new semester is a chance to switch site and preceptor, and your faculty look at your earlier experience when they choose where you go. That gives you three routes into the Spring.
- Stay. If your Fall preceptor can host you again, the site is already approved and under contract, the contract wait disappears, and your preceptor already knows your level. Confirm they can give you the Spring days you need.
- Change. A second site broadens the adult and older-adult patients you see before your final practicum and adds a second evaluator. It needs a new request, approval and possibly a new contract, so start early.
- Split. If one preceptor cannot carry the whole Spring target, ask your faculty whether two approved preceptors in one semester are acceptable before you plan around that.
Whichever route you prefer, your faculty approve it. Bring them options early rather than a finished decision.
Spring rules that trip students up
- Clinical days belong inside official semester periods, so any day you want during spring break has to be cleared by email with your faculty ahead of time.
- When an official holiday wipes out a planned clinical day, you and your preceptor pick another day to replace it.
- Hours you miss get made up, and being out for more than 3 days calls for documentation.
- Typhon NPST entries made after 7 days are refused, and those hours have to be done again.
- Your preceptor evaluates you at mid-rotation and again at the end, and your clinical faculty observe you on at least two clinical days; see evaluations and site visits.
None of these rules is new in the Spring, yet each one can quietly cost you hours: a refused Typhon week or an unapproved break day has to be earned back later, often in the shorter Summer term.
Your Spring placement, lined up during the Fall
FIU students choose us so the Spring search never competes with their Fall patients. While you finish NGR 6201L, we confirm whether your current preceptor can continue or line up new ones in adult and geriatric primary care within reach of home who can start you in January, check each site's FIU contract status, and assemble the Preceptor Request Form details for your faculty signature.
We keep your Typhon, clearance and break-week rules in view, and if a preceptor pulls out in the middle of the Spring, we start a replacement search right away. We also ask early whether your Spring preceptor could carry you into the Summer, so your final practicum starts from a shortlist rather than a blank page. Our step-by-step process explains the rest, and the form below takes about a minute.
Questions FIU students ask
How many hours do I need in NGR 6202L?
There is no FIU figure for this course alone. NGR 6202L carries 4 credits, matching NGR 6201L, while the program as a whole calls for 770 hours on FIU's site or no fewer than 630 in the handbook. Your syllabus and course faculty tell you what this semester must contribute; the 770 vs 630 page explains the conflict.
Can I start NGR 6202L clinical days before January 11?
Rotations run only during official semester periods, so plan your first Spring clinical day inside the term your syllabus gives. A clinical day inside a campus break needs faculty sign-off by email beforehand, and starting before the site is approved and under contract is a conduct violation under the handbook.
If I stay with my Fall preceptor, is a new Preceptor Request Form required?
Expect so. The form names a specific course (Clinical Practicum-I, Clinical Practicum-II and so on) and a term with dates, days and times, so NGR 6202L needs its own entry even with the same preceptor, along with a faculty signature. Your clinical faculty can confirm how they want it submitted.
What if my NGR 6201L grade is below a B?
Every required course needs a B, which FIU sets at 85%. The catalog permits a single repeat, the handbook permits one MSN retake and elsewhere mentions two repeats, and two failed courses end the program. Talk to your course faculty about your sequence before Spring registration.
Can NGR 6202L be in a different county from NGR 6201L?
Yes, within FIU's rules. The online tracks are not limited to FIU's four South Florida counties, and a new semester can bring a new site. FIU does not say whether a site in another state is allowed, and a move can change your learner location under policy 1370.001, so check the learner location page and ask the Office of Clinical Education first.
Related pages
Last checked 2026-09-26
We check these pages against FIU's own graduate handbook, preceptor manual, plans of study, catalog and licensure pages. Your plan of study, your course faculty, your clinical faculty and FIU's Office of Clinical Education have the final word.
FIU asks you to identify your clinical site. We make that the easy part.
Tell us your FIU track, where you live and which semester your next practicum starts. We find preceptors whose patients fit the course, check early whether the site already holds an FIU contract, and prepare everything the Preceptor Request Form asks for.
- Preceptors matched to the course: adult and older-adult primary care for
NGR 6201L, pediatric primary care forNGR 6301L, an organizational mentor forNGR 7940C - Preceptor, facility, license and schedule details ready for the Preceptor Request Form, weeks ahead of the contract clock
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