Training in Texas as an FIU Nursing Student

Which Texas approval rule applies to you

Texas makes out-of-state schools get Board approval before any clinical learning in the state if they train vocational nurses or entry-level RNs, from diploma and associate programs through the BSN and the entry-level master's. The governing rules sit in chapters 214 and 215 of Title 22 (subsection 3(e) of each), explained in Education Guideline 3.1.3, last revised on May 1, 2026, and NC-SARA membership does not exempt anyone. Such schools file at least four months ahead, pay a fee, show clearance from THECB or TWC, and must have first-time NCLEX results of 80 percent or better.

Those out-of-state approval rules stop short of RN-BSN completion and graduate APRN education. FIU's NP tracks enroll nurses who are already licensed, so they sit on the far side of that line. A separate chapter, 219, sets standards for APRN programs that seek the Board's approval, and programs holding national accreditation are outside Board approval altogether.

None of this tells you whether FIU will contract with a Texas practice. That answer lives with FIU's Office of Clinical Education; get it before you shortlist anyone.

Delegation, protocols and who may precept

AANP classes Texas as restricted. Texas NPs practice under physician delegation and supervision, keep written protocols with a physician as long as they practice, and face limits on where they can prescribe Schedule II drugs.

Within the programs it regulates, the Board's APRN standard, 22 TAC 219.10, lets a licensed APRN precept, or another currently licensed health professional who can both supervise and teach; it requires a written agreement tying together program, preceptor and agency, and usually limits a faculty member to six students per clinical course. For you, though, FIU's own rules pick the preceptor, and the preceptor requirements page sets them out.

Texas programs that reward preceptors leave NP preceptors out. The state's tuition exemption for clinical preceptors helps only RNs living in Texas who precept undergraduates at public colleges on the way to a first RN license, and the THECB's shortage reduction grants go to Texas nursing schools, not to individual clinicians.

Licensing: Texas, Florida and the compact

Texas joined the enhanced compact at its January 2018 start, so Texas residents can hold multistate RN licenses; the APRN Compact is not Texas law. Admission to FIU's MSN, however, hinges on Florida RN licensure held beforehand, and whether a Texas compact license could substitute is one of the gaps our Florida RN license page walks through.