ETSU nursing programs and clinicals in Georgia
Each licensure disclosure published by East Tennessee State University (ETSU) places Georgia on the meets side. The Georgia Board of Nursing does not approve post-licensure programs, but it sets license conditions that shape your search: a Georgia or multistate license for clinical hours in the state, and clinical teaching of APRN students by a nurse authorized as an APRN in Georgia.
Studying with ETSU from Georgia?
Tell us your area, ETSU program and next practicum. We look for a Georgia-authorized NP preceptor whose patients fit your course.
What ETSU says about Georgia
| ETSU page | Program | Result for Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| College of Nursing MSN page (updated September 2025) | BSN and MSN | Meets |
| College of Nursing DNP page (updated April 2026) | ETSU DNP and ETSU-TTU joint DNP | Meets |
| University consumer information pages (tables updated June 2025) | MSN and DNP | Meets |
| University consumer information page (updated July 2024) | ETSU-TTU joint DNP | Meets |
| University consumer information page | BSN | Meets |
ETSU's two sources give Georgia the same answer across the board. It is one of 25 states on the College's list for the BSN and MSN, remains on the DNP list, and reads as meeting requirements in every university consumer table.
That settles the disclosure, not the rotation: Georgia clinicals are a placement outside Tennessee, approved by ETSU case by case after admission and only with regulators' approval. Other states' results sit on ETSU's licensure disclosures.
What the Georgia Board of Nursing requires
Georgia's nursing board sits under the Secretary of State and leaves post-licensure education, APRN programs among it, outside its approval and oversight. ETSU therefore needs no Board sign-off to place RN to BSN, MSN or NP students in Georgia. Prelicensure education is handled differently: by the Board's account, no prelicensure program from outside Georgia, online ones included, is presently cleared for clinicals in the state.
License conditions do the regulating instead, and the Board spells out three:
- A Georgia resident enrolled with a school based elsewhere needs Georgia licensure, or multistate licensure from another compact state, to log clinical hours in Georgia.
- Faculty and preceptors working with students in Georgia, on site or electronically, meet the same licensure test.
- In post-licensure APRN programs, clinical instruction comes from a nurse with APRN authorization in Georgia.
Georgia and Tennessee share compact membership dating to January 19, 2018, and Georgia has not enacted the APRN Compact. ETSU's own rules on the license you train under are on the RN license page.
Who can precept you in Georgia
The APRN instruction condition is the one to plan around. ETSU's Preceptor Intent Form accepts physician credentials alongside NP ones, yet Georgia's board expects clinical instruction in APRN programs from a Georgia-authorized APRN. The practical answer is to build your Georgia search around an NP preceptor holding Georgia APRN authorization, and to ask your course faculty how a physician co-preceptor would fit; the form allows a second preceptor.
AANP classes Georgia as restricted: an NP there needs a physician's delegation or supervision, and Schedule II prescribing carries limits. ETSU's standard, taken from Tennessee's rule, adds that your preceptor's license must be at or above your level and valid where the precepting happens. ETSU's clinical faculty weigh the fit, and credentials pass through the Office of Student Services, as set out on preceptor requirements.
Where Georgia NP students look
In northwest Georgia, students share the Chattanooga metro, which spans the state line. Erlanger, Chattanooga's system, says it is not taking on new APP affiliation agreements for now.
Statewide, the large systems include Northside Hospital, Grady Health System, Piedmont Healthcare, Emory Healthcare and Wellstar Health System. Metro Atlanta holds about 6.48 million people, with the Augusta, Savannah and Columbus areas following. They show where NP students look, not sites holding places for ETSU students.
Georgia's Preceptor Tax Incentive Program (PTIP) is a state tax credit for Georgia-licensed preceptors, from MD and DO physicians and dentists to APRNs and PAs, who train students unpaid in community settings, and it applies only when those students come from Georgia's own medical, dental, NP or PA schools. Preceptors of ETSU students fall outside it. According to Augusta University's AHEC, HB 144 reworked and lengthened the program, and preceptors register every year starting in 2026.
Why Georgia ETSU students choose us
Georgia's APRN instruction rule makes preceptor choice decisive, and we build the search around it. We look in your part of Georgia for an NP who holds Georgia APRN authorization and sees the populations your ETSU course requires, confirm those license details before any request goes out, and assemble the full file for the Intent Form and ProjectConcert. New sites get the contract need raised at once, giving the College time to arrange it.
Decisions stay with ETSU, where faculty approve preceptors and student services staff verify credentials; what we add is a file that arrives complete and within ETSU's rules. Tell us where you live on the contact form.
Questions ETSU students ask
Will a physician preceptor work for ETSU NP clinicals in Georgia?
Georgia's board says clinical instruction in post-licensure APRN programs should come from a nurse the state has authorized as an APRN. ETSU's Intent Form lists MD among example credentials and allows a second preceptor, so a physician may fit as a co-preceptor. Confirm that with your course faculty and the Georgia board first.
Do I need a Georgia nursing license for ETSU clinicals in Georgia?
For Georgia residents, the Board's answer is Georgia licensure or a multistate license from a different compact state; either works for clinical hours in Georgia. ETSU adds its own condition: an unencumbered RN license good for whichever state hosts your rotation.
Does Georgia's preceptor tax credit cover preceptors of ETSU students?
No. PTIP credits apply only when the student attends one of Georgia's medical, dental, NP or PA programs, and ETSU is in Tennessee. Tennessee's incentive, for its part, counts only hours completed inside Tennessee, so neither program rewards an ETSU rotation done in Georgia.
Is ETSU's online MSN recognized for licensure in Georgia?
Both ETSU disclosures say the MSN meets Georgia's educational requirements: the College of Nursing's MSN page and the university's consumer information table agree. Rules can change, so check again with both the College of Nursing and Georgia's board before you enroll and before you plan clinicals there.
Related pages
Last checked 2026-09-25
We check these pages against ETSU's own catalog, College of Nursing pages, plans of study and ProjectConcert guides. Your plan of study, your syllabus, your course faculty and the graduate clinical coordinator have the final word.
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Tell us your ETSU concentration, where you live and which semester your next practicum starts. We find preceptors who fit the course's patient population and prepare everything your Preceptor Intent Form and ProjectConcert entry need.
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