Ohio and Troy University's online nursing programs
Ohio law asks little of nursing programs based in other states, yet Troy University has not published a yes for Ohio clinicals. Its online nursing table lists the state as Not yet determined, on a row last touched 12/15/2020. Get Troy's current answer first, then plan preceptors around the way Ohio words supervision for NP students.
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Ohio in Troy's records
Three Troy sources bear on an Ohio plan, and they answer different questions.
- Troy's Online Nursing Programs disclosure gives Ohio the status Not yet determined for clinical experiences. That single status spans the RN to BSN, MSN and DNP, and the disclosure is not a licensure determination.
- Troy's state authorization page includes Ohio in its SARA list, a matter of distance education rather than of clinical sites.
- Troy's graduate manuals require an unencumbered RN license good in the clinical state from start to finish of the term, and an out-of-state preceptor request sits idle until you show it (the license rule).
Troy's MSN program page also warns that state approval processes can leave the online MSN unavailable in some places. Send the Ohio question to the Clinical Placements Specialist and the Coordinator of State Authorizations, in writing, before you spend weeks on outreach. The clinicals by state page shows Ohio's neighbors on the same table.
Ohio's approach: exemptions, not applications
Rather than asking outside programs to apply, the Ohio Revised Code carves out students. Section 4723.32(A) covers pre-licensure students practicing in Ohio as part of a program located in another jurisdiction, so long as an NCSBN member board has approved that program.
Graduate students fall under section 4723.32(F). It exempts APRN students whose coursework leads to national certification eligibility, practicing under their program's auspices, and it adds one condition that shapes your search: the person overseeing them, be it a teaching assistant, a faculty member or the preceptor, is expected to be an advanced practice registered nurse.
Nowhere does the code ask a program from another state to seek approval from, or even notify, the Ohio Board of Nursing. That still leaves Troy's own open status, which only Troy can close.
Where Ohio's wording meets Troy's preceptor list
Troy casts a wide net for FNP preceptors. An NP with a year of experience qualifies, and so do MDs and DOs, PAs and nurse midwives (Troy's FNP criteria). Ohio's exemption, by contrast, expects APRN oversight of APRN students.
How a physician or PA preceptor in Ohio would pair with APRN oversight is for your course faculty and Troy to decide, not something to assume on your own. Opening an Ohio search with nurse practitioners keeps both rulebooks satisfied from the first form.
Ohio's graduate-student exemption assumes an APRN is doing the supervising, so open an Ohio search with nurse practitioners.
Standard care arrangements and Ohio's cities
AANP scores Ohio as reduced practice. Ohio binds each NP to a collaborating physician or podiatrist through what it calls a standard care arrangement, a tie that lasts a whole career, and Schedule II prescribing depends on the setting.
Ohio entered the multistate license system on January 1, 2023, and its Board of Nursing now tracks nurses practicing in Ohio under multistate licenses issued elsewhere. Ohio is not among the APRN Compact states.
The Columbus and Cleveland metros each top two million people, and roughly 1.76 million Ohioans live in the Cincinnati metro, with Dayton behind them. In Cleveland, NP students commonly look at Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals; in Columbus, at OhioHealth and Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center; in Cincinnati, at Mercy Health. None of them holds seats for Troy students.
Across the borders, Troy's 2020 table read Yes for Pennsylvania, Michigan and West Virginia (the last with an approval step through the Clinical Placements Specialist) and No for Indiana and Kentucky.
What we bring to an Ohio search
Ohio searches go smoothly when the state question and the preceptor question are handled in the right order. We help you get Troy's current word on Ohio, then look for APRN preceptors in your metro who suit your course and schedule, and we deliver a packet your faculty advisor can approve on first reading. Share your city and program through the form below.
Questions Troy students ask
Could a physician precept my Troy clinicals in Ohio?
Troy's FNP criteria allow physicians, but Ohio's exemption for APRN students assumes an APRN oversees them. Ask your course faculty how Troy handles that combination in Ohio before you commit to a physician. Choosing an NP preceptor sidesteps the question.
Must Troy register with Ohio before I train there?
Ohio's statute does not require a program from elsewhere to apply to or notify the board; it works through student exemptions. Troy's 2020 table still lists Ohio as Not yet determined, though, so the confirmation that counts is Troy's own.
I live near Cincinnati. Could I cross into Kentucky or Indiana?
Troy's 2020 table marks both Kentucky and Indiana as No, so neither border solves the Ohio question. Pennsylvania, Michigan and West Virginia read Yes in 2020, but a site in any of them would call for licensure in that state plus Troy's present confirmation.
Why would Troy leave Ohio undetermined when Ohio asks so little?
Troy's table records where Troy stood in December 2020. Its state authorization page adds that Troy is still reviewing each state's rules for programs involving licensure, practicums or internships. Ohio's statute is one input; Troy's written answer is the one that decides your plan.
Related pages
Last checked 2026-09-27
We check these pages against Troy's own 2026-27 MSN, DNP, AMSN and RN to BSN orientation manuals, program pages, degree maps and state authorization pages. Your faculty advisor, your course faculty and the School of Nursing have the final word.
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Tell us your Troy program, where you live and which semester your next clinical course starts. We find preceptors who meet Troy's rules for the course, check the setting against Troy's limits, and prepare everything the Preceptor Information Form and biosketch ask for, well ahead of the form deadline.
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