Typhon NPST at FIU: the 7-day rule and the time sheet

What Typhon NPST does at FIU

Typhon NPST is FIU's clinical record for graduate nursing. The graduate handbook says all students use it, with an entry for every patient encounter in a rotation. Those entries are FIU's evidence that your hours happened and of what you did in them. It sits alongside Canvas, my.fiu.edu and Complio in the set of FIU student systems you will use every week.

FIU's 2022 preceptor manual also describes Typhon as the home of the NWCNHS approved list of preceptors, and it mentions timecards approved in the system. The Preceptor Request Form has a box to tick when your preceptor is already on that approved list, so ask a prospective preceptor whether they have taught FIU students before. The Preceptor Request Form page covers the rest of the form.

Who approves what

Approval runs in two stages, and a paper record backs both of them. Knowing the order helps you spot where an entry is stuck when your hour total in Typhon looks lower than the days you have worked.

1. You enter the encountersRecord each patient encounter in Typhon NPST within 7 days of the clinical day.
2. Your preceptor approves on siteFIU's graduate handbook has the preceptor approve your documentation at the site, so review it with them while the day is recent.
3. Faculty approve the Typhon entriesYour faculty then approve the entries in Typhon. If they question one, settle it with your clinical faculty straight away.
4. The time sheet confirms the hoursYour preceptor's signature on the time-sheet log, added each day or each week, gives FIU a paper record that matches your Typhon hours.

What counts toward your hours

Not every hour spent at a site counts. FIU's graduate handbook keeps observation of hospital rounds to a minimum and leaves it out of practicum hours altogether. Hours also belong inside official semester periods, and any clinical day in a campus break has to be cleared by your faculty over email in advance.

FIU's totals are themselves in dispute. The MSN web pages give 770 clinical hours for the NP tracks, while the 2025-2026 graduate handbook gives a 630-hour minimum for AGPCNP, PNP, PMHNP and AGACNP, and FIU publishes no hour split for the individual primary care practicum courses. Ask your course faculty what your practicum requires. The 770 versus 630 hours page sets out the conflict, and the clinical hours page covers every program.

Why FIU students keep clean logs with us

We brief every preceptor we place on FIU's paperwork before day one: approving your documentation on site, signing the time-sheet log each day or week for days already worked, and completing the mid-rotation and final evaluations. A preceptor who knows the routine keeps your record moving, and one who has signed the time sheet at the end of every week rarely leaves you chasing signatures at the end of the term.

We keep the 7-day rule in view with you through the rotation, and if a preceptor leaves mid-semester we start on a replacement at once so your hours keep building. Your faculty and the Office of Clinical Education decide on every site and preceptor, and we make their review easy with a request that is complete and built to FIU's rules. Start with the form below.