Advanced Practice Recruiters is the nation's first dedicated nurse practitioner recruiting firm. Our NP-only recruiter teams place family, psychiatric, acute care, adult-gerontology, pediatric, women's health, neonatal, and emergency nurse practitioners into hospitals, health systems, physician groups, federally qualified health centers, urgent care chains, telehealth platforms, and behavioral health organizations across all 50 states.
We work exclusively on advanced practice provider searches. We do not recruit RNs, CNAs, or allied health staff. That focus produces deeper candidate pipelines, faster fills, and meaningfully higher one-year retention than generalist healthcare staffing firms can deliver.
Nurse practitioner certifications are population-focused. An FNP is trained, certified, and licensed to deliver primary care across the lifespan; a PMHNP is trained for psychiatric medication management and therapy; an AGACNP is trained for hospitalized adult and geriatric patients. These are not interchangeable credentials, and most state boards of nursing restrict practice to the population focus of the certification.
Generalist staffing firms routinely conflate these certifications, present FNPs for inpatient AGACNP roles, or submit primary care PMHNPs for inpatient psychiatric units. The result is failed interviews, withdrawn offers, and early turnover. Subspecialty-focused NP recruiting eliminates this friction by aligning every search with a recruiter who works only within that specific certification track.
Our NP recruiters track ANCC and AANPCB certification cohorts, post-master's certificate programs, DNP completion timelines, and state-by-state full practice authority developments. That depth produces candidate slates other firms cannot.
Every nurse practitioner search opens with a structured intake call between the hiring manager and one of our NP-dedicated recruiters. We define the clinical role, certification requirement, productivity expectations, call burden, compensation, supervision or collaboration model, geographic preferences, and the cultural attributes that will predict long-term retention.
Within 48 to 72 hours we present an initial NP candidate slate. Each candidate has been screened for board certification, state licensure or licensure-eligibility, DEA registration as required, malpractice history, employment chronology, compensation alignment, geographic seriousness, and clinical fit. We do not paper-blast resumes.
Through the interview cycle, our recruiters manage scheduling, candidate communication, reference checks, offer construction, counter-offer management, and start-date logistics. After acceptance we remain engaged through credentialing and onboarding to maximize show rate and one-year retention. Every placement carries a standard replacement guarantee.
Our nurse practitioner placements operate on a contingency model with fees of 15% to 25% of the candidate's first-year base compensation. Employers pay nothing until the NP is hired and starts work. There are no retainers, exclusivity requirements, or upfront fees. Hard-to-fill NP subspecialties such as PMHNP, AGACNP, and NNP typically fall toward the higher end of the range; high-volume primary care FNP placements are toward the lower end.
We present a subspecialty-matched NP candidate slate within 48 to 72 hours of search kickoff. Most nurse practitioner placements close in 30 to 90 days. Timelines depend on certification (FNP, PMHNP, AGACNP, AGNP, PNP, WHNP, NNP, ENP), state licensure status, DEA registration, geographic preferences, and compensation alignment with the local market.
Yes. We place nurse practitioners in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories, including full practice authority, reduced practice, and restricted practice states. We routinely support nurse licensure compact (NLC) telehealth searches and multi-state collaborative practice arrangements.
We recruit FNP, PMHNP, AGACNP, AGNP/AGPCNP, PNP, WHNP, NNP, ENP, oncology NP, cardiology NP, dermatology NP, and post-master's certificate cross-population candidates. PMHNP, AGACNP, and FNP are our highest-volume subspecialties due to current national demand.
Yes. We maintain new graduate NP pipelines for employers who offer structured fellowship, residency, or formal onboarding programs. New graduate placements work best in family practice, primary care, urgent care, and behavioral health settings with strong preceptor support, and are generally not appropriate for solo specialty roles.