Healthcare institutions cannot fill clinical placement slots for nurse practitioner students, blocking program completion and workforce pipeline

Nursing schools in Maryland and beyond have more qualified NP students than available clinical placements, forcing students to delay graduation and creating a bottleneck in an already severe nurse practitioner shortage. Healthcare facilities lack a systematic way to coordinate, manage, and fill these placements, while schools struggle to match students with available preceptors and clinical sites. Current solutions are fragmented, manual, and fail to connect supply (students needing placements) with demand (facilities with placement capacity).