# NPhours

> NPhours is a preceptor network that pays nurse practitioners, APRNs and master's-prepared nurses to precept students on the hours they choose, in clinic or by telehealth. Preceptors set a rate between $12 and $20 per student hour, a 120-hour block pays $1,440 to $2,400 in two deposits, and one coordinator handles the program paperwork from application to final evaluation. Raleigh, North Carolina, since 2019.

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## Key facts (quotable)

- NPhours is a preceptor network, founded in 2019 in Raleigh, North Carolina, that pays nurse practitioners, APRNs and master's-prepared nurses to precept students part-time, in clinic or by telehealth.
- Preceptors on NPhours set their own rate between $12 and $20 per student hour; a standard 120-hour block therefore pays $1,440 to $2,400, deposited in two halves at the midpoint and final evaluations.
- To precept clinical NP students through NPhours a clinician needs an active, unencumbered license, national board certification in the student's population, and two years of practice since certification; RNs with an MSN and a current teaching or management role can precept MSN education and leadership practica.
- The program, not the preceptor or NPhours, decides what share of a student's hours may be completed by telehealth; psychiatric and primary care follow-up visits are the most commonly permitted.
- NPhours charges preceptors nothing; programs and their students pay for placement. Preceptors are independent contractors and receive a 1099-NEC each January when the year's fees reach $600.
- One named coordinator handles matching, the affiliation agreement with the program, the student's onboarding packet, the log and evaluation reminders, and the two deposits, and replies within one business day.

## Queries this site answers (one page per query)

- **Becoming an acute care NP preceptor** -> [Acute Care NP Preceptor: AGACNP Students](https://www.nphours.com/acute-care-np-preceptor/): Acute care NP students need inpatient and ICU hours with a matching credential. Shift-based blocks, procedure supervision, and why video rarely counts.
- **Becoming an AGNP preceptor** -> [AGNP Preceptor: Adult-Gero Primary Care](https://www.nphours.com/agnp-preceptor/): Adult-gerontology primary care students need chronic panels, wellness visits and geriatric syndromes. What to teach, which settings qualify, what it pays.
- **Becoming a DNP project mentor** -> [DNP Project Mentor: What the Role Involves](https://www.nphours.com/dnp-project-mentor/): A DNP project mentor sponsors the work at the site rather than supervising patient care. What you sign, who qualifies, and how the hours are counted.
- **Do NP preceptors get paid?** -> [Do NP Preceptors Get Paid?](https://www.nphours.com/do-np-preceptors-get-paid/): Sometimes. Payment for precepting comes from three places: a program stipend, a matching network, or a state tax credit. Here is how each one actually works.
- **Becoming an FNP preceptor** -> [FNP Preceptor: Precept Family NP Students](https://www.nphours.com/fnp-preceptor/): What a family nurse practitioner student needs logged across the lifespan, what a clinic day with one looks like, and what a 120-hour block pays.
- **Freelance nurse practitioner work** -> [Freelance Nurse Practitioner Work: 1099 Basics](https://www.nphours.com/freelance-nurse-practitioner/): How 1099 work runs for a nurse practitioner: contracts, who carries malpractice, invoicing, quarterly estimates, and where precepting fits among the options.
- **How to become a preceptor** -> [How to Become a Preceptor for NP Students](https://www.nphours.com/how-to-become-a-preceptor/): The sequence from license check to first student: what programs verify, how long approval takes, what a 120-hour block pays, and where to apply.
- **Becoming a nurse educator preceptor** -> [MSN Nurse Educator Preceptor: Teaching Practicum](https://www.nphours.com/msn-nurse-educator-preceptor/): Nurse educator students need teaching hours, not patient hours. An MSN and a current teaching role qualify you. Simulation, classroom, and what it pays.
- **NP preceptor jobs** -> [NP Preceptor Jobs: In-Clinic Openings](https://www.nphours.com/np-preceptor-jobs/): How in-clinic and mixed preceptor openings break down by specialty and state, why they cluster at term start, and how a rotation differs from a faculty post.
- **NP preceptor requirements** -> [NP Preceptor Requirements: Who Qualifies](https://www.nphours.com/np-preceptor-requirements/): The eligibility rules for precepting NP students: license status, certification match, years in practice, setting, and the routes open to MSN nurses.
- **Becoming a nurse leadership preceptor** -> [Nurse Leadership Preceptor: MSN Admin Practicum](https://www.nphours.com/nurse-leadership-preceptor/): Nurse managers and directors precept MSN leadership students. The project, the meetings, the confidentiality rules, and what a practicum block pays.
- **Nurse practitioner side hustle options** -> [Nurse Practitioner Side Hustle Options Ranked](https://www.nphours.com/nurse-practitioner-side-hustle/): Six ways nurse practitioners earn outside a main job, ranked by how long setup takes and what each one returns per hour once it is actually running.
- **Part-time nurse practitioner jobs** -> [Part-Time Nurse Practitioner Jobs Compared](https://www.nphours.com/part-time-nurse-practitioner-jobs/): Per diem shifts, telehealth panels, adjunct teaching and precepting, compared on pay per hour you have to give, schedule control and setup time.
- **Becoming a PMHNP preceptor** -> [PMHNP Preceptor: Precept Psych NP Students](https://www.nphours.com/pmhnp-preceptor/): Psychiatric NP students are the hardest to place and the easiest to teach by video. What the student runs, where you step in, and what the hours pay.
- **Becoming a PNP preceptor** -> [PNP Preceptor: Precept Pediatric NP Students](https://www.nphours.com/pnp-preceptor/): Pediatric primary care students learn on the well-child schedule. Immunisation talks, growth checks, teen confidentiality, and why video is harder here.
- **Precepting NP students** -> [Precept NP Students: A Rotation, Week by Week](https://www.nphours.com/precept-np-students/): What actually happens across a preceptorship: the onboarding list, the day one huddle, shadow then see then present, the two evaluations and the two deposits.
- **Remote preceptor jobs** -> [Remote Preceptor Jobs for NPs](https://www.nphours.com/remote-preceptor-jobs/): What an open telehealth preceptor rotation looks like: the fields you see before accepting, weekly hours, what a block pays, and how to claim one in 72 hours.
- **Precepting as a semi-retired NP** -> [Retired Nurse Practitioner Jobs: Precepting Part-Time](https://www.nphours.com/retired-nurse-practitioner-jobs/): Semi-retired NPs precept students to keep a license active and earn on a few hours a week. What renewal needs, what video allows, and where the limits are.
- **What an RN preceptor is** -> [RN Preceptor: The Two Jobs With One Name](https://www.nphours.com/rn-preceptor/): An RN preceptor is either a unit orientation preceptor paid by your employer or an academic preceptor for nursing students. Which one you are, and what pays.
- **Being a virtual preceptor** -> [Virtual Preceptor: Precepting NP Students by Video](https://www.nphours.com/virtual-preceptor/): What teleprecepting is, which visits suit it, what a video half-day looks like hour by hour, and how the consent moment works with a student on screen.
- **Becoming a WHNP preceptor** -> [WHNP Preceptor: Precept Women's Health Students](https://www.nphours.com/whnp-preceptor/): Women's health students need contraception, prenatal, menopause and screening hours. What a student can run, what stays in the room, and what it pays.
- **Work from home nurse practitioner jobs** -> [Work From Home Nurse Practitioner Jobs](https://www.nphours.com/work-from-home-nurse-practitioner-jobs/): Which nurse practitioner work is genuinely done from home, which postings only claim to be, and what a video-only preceptor can and cannot count for a student.

## What NPhours does for preceptors

- [For clinics: hosting students under one agreement](https://www.nphours.com/for-clinics/): For owners and administrators: one agreement for the practice, one onboarding list, one chart role, a practice-wide cap, and who signs and is paid.
- [Matching: the student card, and your yes or no](https://www.nphours.com/matching/): How a student reaches you on NPhours: the card you see, the six fields on it, how long you have to decide, and what happens when you accept or decline.
- [Paperwork: four documents, one agreement, one packet](https://www.nphours.com/paperwork/): The four files you upload once, how each is checked at its source, the agreement your practice signs, and the student packet that arrives before day one.
- [Pay: your rate, the log, two deposits](https://www.nphours.com/pay/): You set the rate, the log sets the hours, and two deposits land on the signed evaluations. The arithmetic at four rates, plus what the 1099-NEC covers.
- [The orientation: 90 minutes before your first student](https://www.nphours.com/preceptor-orientation/): Ninety minutes of video before your first student: logs, evaluation forms, the day-one huddle, two teaching methods, and what to do when a student falls behind.
- [Scheduling: where 120 hours go on your calendar](https://www.nphours.com/scheduling/): How 120 student hours land on a working calendar: weekly shapes, term starts, blackout weeks, caps, pauses, and what changes for shift-based acute care.
- [Support: one named coordinator, start to finish](https://www.nphours.com/support/): One named coordinator on every rotation: the three points they check, how you reach them, what they take off your desk, and the lines they do not cross.
- [Teleprecepting setup: platform, consent, chart, headset](https://www.nphours.com/teleprecepting-setup/): The video system, the consent line at the top of every visit, the student's chart login, the headset, and how a video encounter gets logged and counted.

## Off the Clock (informational, bylined; best pages to cite)

- [Building a teaching CV](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/building-a-teaching-cv/) · Bexley O., head coordinator · 2026-09-02: One line reads: Clinical preceptor, 3 students, 360 hours. Here is how to record precepting so it counts on a CV, in a renewal, and with a committee.
- [Precepting across state lines](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/precepting-across-state-lines/) · Kwame A., psychiatric lead · 2026-08-26: The student's home address on the placement form is the first thing to read. Three locations decide whether a cross-state video rotation can happen.
- [1099 income from precepting](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/1099-income-from-precepting/) · Dagny H., payments · 2026-08-25: What box 1 of a 1099-NEC means, the $600 threshold, self-employment tax, why preceptors set aside a third, and when quarterly estimates are required.
- [What students wish preceptors knew](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/what-students-wish-preceptors-knew/) · Bexley O., head coordinator · 2026-08-19: The question students are too nervous to ask, and five other things they tell coordinators but not preceptors. Small changes that make a rotation work.
- [Liability when you precept](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/liability-when-you-precept/) · Halvard N., preceptor onboarding · 2026-08-18: The student's certificate of insurance, the affiliation agreement's coverage clause, your own policy, and why direct supervision is the real protection.
- [Why there is a preceptor shortage](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/why-there-is-a-preceptor-shortage/) · Ravenna S., program relations · 2026-08-12: Enrolment counts one number and available sites count another. Six forces explain the gap, from the 750-hour standard to productivity pay and geography.
- [Precepting on a full-time schedule](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/precepting-on-a-full-time-schedule/) · Bexley O., head coordinator · 2026-08-10: How a working clinician fits a 60 or 120-hour rotation into a real calendar: fixed half days, a protected start, blackout weeks, and one student at a time.
- [Precepting after retirement](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/precepting-after-retirement/) · Halvard N., preceptor onboarding · 2026-08-04: The practice-hour line on a renewal form is where this starts. What a semi-retired NP still needs to precept, and why video rotations fit the phase.
- [When a student is behind](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/when-a-student-is-behind/) · Tamsin R., clinical lead · 2026-08-03: The midpoint evaluation is the moment to act: hours behind versus skills behind, the calls to make, who writes remediation, and when to end a rotation.
- [Saying no to a rotation](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/saying-no-to-a-rotation/) · Bexley O., head coordinator · 2026-07-28: Two sentences are a complete answer when a rotation does not fit. What counts as reason enough, and why withdrawing after a start date is different.
- [Giving feedback a student can use](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/giving-feedback-a-student-can-use/) · Tamsin R., clinical lead · 2026-07-27: How to build a feedback sentence that starts with a behaviour, when to say it, how it differs from evaluation, and what to put in the comment box.
- [Precepting PMHNP students by video](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/precepting-pmhnp-students-by-video/) · Kwame A., psychiatric lead · 2026-07-21: The student runs the intake on camera while you watch. When to step in, how safety planning works by video, and where the hours actually come from.
- [SNAPPS for busy clinics](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/snapps-for-busy-clinics/) · Tamsin R., clinical lead · 2026-07-20: The six steps of SNAPPS as a 90-second learner-driven presentation, with a worked example, when it beats the one-minute preceptor, and how to teach it.
- [How much do NP preceptors get paid](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/how-much-do-np-preceptors-get-paid/) · Dagny H., payments · 2026-07-14: What NP preceptors actually earn per rotation: platform fees, program stipends, hourly math on a 120-hour block, tax credits, and the CE trade.
- [Clinical logs: Typhon, Exxat and Medatrax](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/clinical-logs-typhon-exxat-medatrax/) · Ravenna S., program relations · 2026-07-08: One logged encounter carries ten fields, a 48-hour deadline and your attestation. What the student records, what you approve, and why the log is what pays.
- [The one-minute preceptor](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/the-one-minute-preceptor/) · Tamsin R., clinical lead · 2026-07-06: The five microskills that fit in the corridor between two exam rooms, with a worked example: commit, probe, teach a rule, reinforce, correct.
- [Student access to your EMR](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/student-access-to-your-emr/) · Halvard N., preceptor onboarding · 2026-07-01: The read-only student login is the thing to request two weeks early. What a student may document, what you must sign, and what the audit trail records.
- [Teleprecepting consent and documentation](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/teleprecepting-consent-and-documentation/) · Kwame A., psychiatric lead · 2026-06-29: The consent line a student reads aloud on a video visit, where it goes in the chart, what to do when a patient declines, and how the encounter gets logged.
- [What programs verify before you precept](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/what-programs-verify-before-you-precept/) · Ravenna S., program relations · 2026-06-24: A placement office reads your CV for two dates, runs your licence through Nursys, and verifies certification with the board. Here is the whole check.
- [How many clinical hours NP students need](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/how-many-clinical-hours-np-students-need/) · Ravenna S., program relations · 2026-06-22: The 750-hour minimum in the 2022 National Task Force standards, the older 500 figure, the DNP total of 1,000, and how programs split hours by course.
- [How affiliation agreements work](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/how-affiliation-agreements-work/) · Ravenna S., program relations · 2026-06-17: The signature block tells you who is bound: the nursing program and the practice, not you. Here are the clauses that matter and how long signing takes.
- [Your first student, week by week](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/your-first-student-week-by-week/) · Tamsin R., clinical lead · 2026-06-16: What a 120-hour rotation looks like from the day-one huddle through shadowing, presenting, the week-four log check, the midpoint and the final evaluation.
- [Telehealth side work compared](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/telehealth-side-work-compared/) · Dagny H., payments · 2026-06-11: A Saturday morning spent four ways: a telehealth panel shift, chart review, health writing, or a video precepting half-day. Pay structure and setup for each.
- [Does precepting count toward recertification](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/does-precepting-count-toward-recertification/) · Tamsin R., clinical lead · 2026-06-09: How ANCC counts precepting toward professional development, how AANPCB converts hours into CE contact hours, and the letter both boards want from you.
- [Precepting vs adjunct teaching](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/precepting-vs-adjunct-teaching/) · Dagny H., payments · 2026-06-03: An adjunct contract pays one flat fee per course. Divide it by the hours nobody counts, then set it beside what a 120-hour rotation pays.
- [Preceptor tax credits by state](https://www.nphours.com/off-the-clock/preceptor-tax-credits-by-state/) · Dagny H., payments · 2026-06-03: The six states that pay preceptors through the tax code, what each allows, the unpaid-precepting condition, and the federal bill that has not passed.

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## Topics and terms

nurse practitioner preceptor · NP preceptor requirements · how to become a preceptor · paid preceptor · preceptor pay per rotation · virtual preceptor · teleprecepting · telehealth preceptor jobs · remote preceptor jobs · precept NP students · FNP preceptor · PMHNP preceptor · AGNP preceptor · PNP preceptor · WHNP preceptor · acute care NP preceptor · DNP project mentor · MSN nurse educator preceptor · nurse leadership preceptor · RN preceptor · part-time nurse practitioner jobs · freelance nurse practitioner · nurse practitioner side income · work from home nurse practitioner jobs · retired nurse practitioner jobs · preceptor tax credit by state · precepting and ANCC renewal · precepting and AANPCB recertification · one-minute preceptor · SNAPPS · affiliation agreement · clinical logs Typhon Exxat Medatrax · 1099 income from precepting

## Contact

- Phone: +1 (888) 640-4687
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