Virtual Practicum Service for Aspen Field Experience
If an in-person site isn’t practical, our virtual practicum service connects you with a qualified, specialty-matched remote preceptor and a structured virtual experience for your Aspen University field requirement, sourced, documented, and ready to move through Aspen’s approval process.
What our virtual practicum service is
Our virtual practicum service is a remote alternative to a physical placement. Instead of sourcing an in-person site near you, we source a qualified preceptor who can supervise your work remotely and we structure a virtual experience around the project-based, specialty-matched activity your Aspen field requirement calls for. You complete your hours through coordinated remote supervision rather than on a hospital floor.
This matters because Aspen leaves the search to the student, and many students report preceptor hunts dragging on for months. A virtual arrangement widens the pool of qualified preceptors well beyond your immediate geography, which often shortens that search considerably.
To be clear up front: aspenpreceptor.com is an independent service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with Aspen University, and we don’t replace Aspen’s Office of Field Experience. We assist; we never guarantee placement. Aspen also has no nurse-practitioner tracks, so this is project-based, specialty-matched field work and quality-improvement activity, not NP-style direct patient-care rotations.
Who the virtual route suits best
Aspen’s MSN specializations each carry a 120-hour practicum, and several of them center on work that translates naturally to a remote setting. The virtual service fits these especially well:
Informatics work in ambulatory, outpatient, and HIM informatics settings often involves systems, data, and documentation that a remote preceptor can readily supervise. Nursing Education projects built around staff-education or continuing-education content are similarly suited to remote collaboration. Public Health and Administration & Management work, program planning, policy, quality improvement, and management projects, also lends itself to coordinated virtual supervision.
Your preceptor remains a Registered Nurse affiliated with the practicum site who holds a master’s degree with expertise relevant to your specialty, the same standard Aspen requires for an in-person placement. Note that the Nursing Education, Forensic Nursing, and Public Health tracks require a minimum of 20 direct-care hours within the 120, which we account for when we structure your experience.
How it works with Aspen’s process
A virtual placement still moves through the same Aspen approval steps as any field experience. We help you assemble the paperwork, the Practicum Site Agreement, Preceptor Agreement, Student Profile, and Student Performance Evaluation, that leads to the Practicum Approval Letter you must obtain before your practicum course begins.
From there, hours are logged in ProjectConcert, supported by a signed preceptor audit report and the Week-7 site and preceptor evaluations. Our role is to source the right remote preceptor, shape a virtual experience that fits your specialty, and keep your hours and approval documentation organized so nothing stalls. Aspen’s Office of Field Experience assists with identifying and approving your site and preceptor; we make sure your virtual arrangement arrives ready for that review.
Start your virtual placement
Tell us your program and specialization and we’ll begin sourcing a qualified, specialty-matched remote preceptor and building your virtual experience around it. The same service is available if an in-person site turns out to be the better fit, see physical placement matching, and you can compare both routes anytime.
There’s no risk in starting the search. You pay when you’re matched. Tell us about your program and we’ll get to work.
Frequently asked questions
Is a virtual practicum the same as an in-person placement?
It covers the same Aspen field requirement, but instead of an in-person site we source a qualified remote preceptor and structure a virtual experience around your specialty’s project-based work. Your preceptor still meets Aspen’s standard: a Registered Nurse affiliated with the practicum site holding a master’s degree relevant to your specialization.
Which programs is the virtual service for?
We offer it across Aspen’s nursing programs that carry a field requirement, including the MSN and RN-to-MSN 120-hour practicum and DNP immersion work. It suits specialties built around project, data, education, public-health, and management activity particularly well.
Does the virtual route still go through Aspen’s approval?
Yes. It moves through the same steps, the Practicum Site Agreement, Preceptor Agreement, Student Profile, and Student Performance Evaluation leading to a Practicum Approval Letter before your practicum course begins, with hours logged in ProjectConcert. We keep that documentation organized for Aspen’s Office of Field Experience review.
Do you guarantee a placement?
No. aspenpreceptor.com is an independent service, not affiliated with or endorsed by Aspen University. We assist with sourcing a qualified remote preceptor and structuring your virtual experience, and you pay only when you’re matched.
Get your Aspen practicum handled.
Tell us your program and specialty. We’ll map your field-experience requirement and start the search, in person or virtual. No payment until you’re matched.