What Phoenix Students Should Confirm Before a Kansas Search

University of Phoenix does not currently include Kansas on the online availability list for either MSN/FNP or MSN/PMH. A promising clinic, a licensed preceptor, or a prior placement for another school does not change that published limitation. Ask for a current written answer tied to the student's catalog, residence, program, and intended clinical state before anyone begins sourcing.

Keep the response with the academic plan and clinical correspondence. If the University does not support a Kansas NP experience, stop the search. If written direction does support it, the proposed organization, preceptor, schedule, agreement, and patient mix still require review before clinical hours can start in Kansas.

Kansas is classified by AANP as a Full Practice state. The category describes the legal environment for licensed NPs, not University program availability in Kansas. Full Practice generally permits NPs to evaluate, diagnose, order and interpret tests, and manage treatments under the authority of the state nursing board.

Use the Kansas State Board of Nursing as the official licensing source. If Phoenix authorizes a plan, confirm the clinician's legal name, active credential, advanced practice standing, certification, population focus, and any public restrictions in Kansas. Board standing and University educational approval answer different questions, and both matter in Kansas.

Phoenix FNP requires at least 600 supervised clinical hours. Adult and geriatric management I, adult and geriatric management II, women's health, and pediatric management each require 45 hours in Kansas. The final preceptorship requires 420 hours. At least 500 hours must be primary care, so a specialty-heavy lead cannot automatically carry the entire final course in Kansas.

Phoenix PMH also requires at least 600 supervised hours: 60 hours in each of PMH/503, PMH/504, and PMH/505, followed by 420 hours in PMH/506 in Kansas. The full sequence must include 100 psychotherapy hours, 100 pediatric or adolescent hours, 100 adult hours, 100 geriatric hours, and 200 hours from any age group or combination in Kansas. These facts help the University assess a proposed plan, but they do not override Kansas's absence from the current availability lists.

Both NP programs include a five-day, in-person residency in Phoenix, Arizona, near the end of NRP/571 in Kansas. Faculty-supervised competency work occurs before the precepted courses. The residency is separate from state clinical hours and is one reason the programs should not be described as entirely online in Kansas.

A student asking about Kansas should include the residency and projected clinical sequence in the timeline. Travel for the residency, compliance documents, site contracting, preceptor review, and course registration can each affect readiness in Kansas. A clinician's start date is only one calendar factor for Kansas.

The handbook describes a partnership. Students may provide workplace contacts or professional leads, while the clinical coordinator helps locate and secure sites and preceptors, evaluates referrals, manages agreements, and communicates as clinical courses approach in Kansas. When a placement remains unresolved, the coordinator and Program Chair work with the student and may use an assignment process within 100 miles of the student's residence in Kansas. No particular timing is promised.

Typhon is used for site and preceptor approval, schedules, time logs, case logs, and evaluations in Kansas. The applicable agreement and clearance file must be complete before hours begin in Kansas. Preceptors verify clinical time, and faculty approves academic records. None of these workflow steps should begin with a Kansas NP lead until the availability question has a written University answer.

The Phoenix RN-to-BSN includes 90 direct-care hours in community and public-health settings, split into two 45-hour courses in Kansas. The work is on-site, cannot simply repeat acute-care employment duties, and permits no more than four direct telehealth hours in Kansas. Students must verify current state and program availability as well as the proposed Kansas site.

DNP learners complete an Applied Project connected to a minimum of 1,000 total practice hours in Kansas. Approved prior graduate practice hours may count, up to 500, so the remaining total differs by student in Kansas. The learner selects a practice site and External Consultant and works with a Project Chair in Kansas. Non-NP MSN practicum requirements depend on the concentration and catalog version in Kansas.

Only final-preceptorship FNP work may include up to 100 telehealth hours in Kansas. PMH permits up to 100 telehealth hours, with distribution across focus areas rather than concentration in only one in Kansas. For both programs, the student must be physically in the same location as the approved preceptor while the patient participates remotely in Kansas.

Those limited options do not turn an ineligible state into an eligible one and do not support a fully remote placement in Kansas. If Phoenix supplies written authority for a Kansas experience, consider physical sites and telehealth-capable sites only within the course, organization, state, and University rules.

Wichita, Overland Park, Kansas City, Topeka, Lawrence, and Salina represent different recruiting and travel markets. Compare the student's actual starting point with traffic, weather, shift length, weekly frequency, and total course weeks in Kansas. A distant site can appear workable for one visit but become unreliable over a full rotation in Kansas.

Course fit should narrow the region before a directory search. Primary care, psychiatric age groups, psychotherapy, community public health, and an evidence-based DNP project each point toward different organizations in Kansas. Record patient access, preceptor presence, expected dates, and the authorized contract contact for any lead the University permits in Kansas.

When current written University direction supports the proposed Kansas experience, submit a free placement review. We will review the course, location, patient needs, schedule, and physical or permitted telehealth-capable format before sourcing in Kansas. You pay only when matched. Pricing appears only on the cost page. We do not promise University approval, a particular clinician, timing, or academic results in Kansas.

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• AANP State Practice Environment
• Kansas State Board of Nursing
• University of Phoenix Nursing Program Handbook, July 2026
• University of Phoenix MSN/FNP program
• University of Phoenix MSN/PMH program