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Graduate Nursing Students Application

Continue your education with a program that grows with you. We’re accepting applications for summer 2024 through Jan. 1, 2024.

How to apply

To apply for our program: 

  1. Prepare your cover/introductory letter and resume
  2. Complete the form below and click submit
  3. You’ll receive an email with instructions to send in your cover/introductory letter and resume. If you’re a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) student, include your clinical course documents
  4. Please complete 1 application for each semester or quarter that you're seeking clinical placement for and include specific dates. To ensure that your information is up-to-date, we recommend that you submit your application closer to the deadline for the upcoming semester.
  5. If you’re accepted, we’ll send you an email to verify your clinical placement. Please have your syllabus available to share with your preceptor on your first day of clinicals.

Application deadline

Semester      Application deadline      Review      Student notification     
Spring      August 1      September-October      November     
Summer      January 1      February-March      April     
Fall      April 1      May-June      July     

Application requirements

Help us get to know you and see if you’re a great fit for our programs. We can’t evaluate your application until we receive your:

  • Completed application form
  • Cover/introductory letter
  • Detailed and updated resume
  • Clinical course documents

You should tailor your cover/introductory letter to the goals and objectives of your desired clinical placement. Be sure to include your:

  • Professional nursing background
  • Strengths
  • Career goals
  • Qualifications that make you an ideal candidate

Additional information will be available once you submit your application.

Please understand you must go through the Medical Education department to request clinical placement at Gundersen. Please do not directly contact a Gundersen department, clinician or nurse for clinical placement. Submission of your application signifies agreement with this stipulation.

Incomplete, illegible or late applications submitted after the semester deadline date will not be considered for clinical placements. Due to high demand for placement, no exceptions will be made.

Eligibility

The appropriate contractual affiliation agreements for Gundersen must be in place before clinical placement. If a contract is needed with the institution for student placement, please note: 

  • This process can be lengthy and does not guarantee student placement
  • There is no guarantee that a contract will be successfully negotiated
  • Student cannot be placed or start a clinical rotation and/or project until contract is in place

Basic information

Are you a current Gundersen employee?

School information

Will you need to complete a student project at GHS?
Does your school program allow any virtual learning to count towards your patient contact hours?

Licensure

In order to complete clinicals at GHS, you MUST have a valid RN licensure that will not expire during your clinicals. Your licensure MUST be from a Compact State at the time of submitting this application.

Clinical request

I have verified that the preferred placements selected below meet my course requirements.
Preferred Placement Choice 1
Preferred Placement Choice 2
Preferred Placement Choice 3
Preferred Placement Choice 4
Preferred Placement Choice 5

Preceptor information

Qualified preceptors
Check all that apply
Do you have a preceptor in mind that you would like to reach out to?

By entering my name below, I acknowledge that completion of this application does not guarantee clinical placement. I acknowledge that all clinical placement requests must come through the Medical Education department. I understand that an affiliation agreement needs to be in place between my school and Gundersen at least 1 month prior to starting the rotation for the rotation to take place.

By typing my name below, I also understand my project ideas must be discussed with the Nursing Research team early in the planning process; must be vetted by the Gundersen project vetting committee; and my project must be reviewed by the Human Subject Review Board to receive approval/exemption status prior to starting any project work. 

A friendly reminder: Do not reach out to providers on your own. Placement must go through Medical Education. Thank you.
Contact our team

We’re here to answer your questions. 
Email us

1900 South Ave.
La Crosse, WI 54601

(608) 782-7300
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