Augusta University clinicals in South Carolina
South Carolina is the other state Augusta University's nurse practitioner students may live in, and Aiken and Edgefield sit just across the Savannah River from campus. The state's largest systems are among the hardest for outside NP students to enter, so a strong search leans on independent practices, community health centers and regional hospitals. Four regional guides cover the state.
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Tell us your Augusta University program and where you live. A placement advisor replies with preceptor and site options in your community that fit your Augusta University course.
How the South Carolina guides work
The guides use South Carolina's four public health regions, the Midlands, the Upstate, the Pee Dee and the Lowcountry, as a practical grouping. Each covers the counties, towns and population, the hospitals and what their own student pages say, community health centers and federal shortage designations, and how the region's settings fit Augusta University's four NP tracks.
South Carolina nurse practitioners work under a physician practice agreement, and the state belongs to the Nurse Licensure Compact. South Carolina NP practice explains both, and the RN license guide covers licenses for clinicals across the state line.
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Questions Augusta University students ask
Can an Augusta University NP student live in South Carolina?
Yes. Augusta University's DNP pages allow NP and post-graduate certificate students to live in Georgia or South Carolina, because faculty visit the student, preceptor and clinical site in either state.
Is Aiken covered?
Yes. Aiken and Edgefield counties are in the Midlands guide, alongside Columbia and the rest of the central counties.
Do the big South Carolina systems take outside NP students?
Some limit placements to their own staff or to particular in-state schools, according to their own pages, while others accept requests through their own forms. Each regional guide sets out what the systems in that region publish.
Do I need a South Carolina license for clinicals there?
You need an RN license valid in South Carolina, which a multistate compact license from Georgia provides. The RN license guide explains the details.
Last checked 2026-09-27
We check these pages against Augusta University's own catalog, program plans, DNP handbook and program pages, and Georgia and South Carolina rules. Your course faculty and the College of Nursing have the final word.
Whatever your program arranges, we find the preceptor who fits.
Tell us your Augusta University track, where in Georgia or South Carolina you live and when your next clinical course starts. We find preceptors near you who fit the course and Augusta University's rules, and hand you everything your faculty and the site need, well before the semester.
- Adult, pediatric and older-adult preceptors for
NURS 8312toNURS 8318, acute care forNURS 8332toNURS 8338 - Pediatric primary care for the PNP courses and psychiatric preceptors for
NURS 8342toNURS 8348 - Across Georgia and South Carolina, from the CSRA to Savannah, Atlanta and Columbia
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