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While the School of Nursing does not provide monetary payment to preceptors, there are many benefits of precepting. As a preceptor, you will have the opportunity to:
- Improve your clinical, communication and teaching skills.
- Reflect on and evaluate your own practice.
- Stay current and revitalized as a health care professional.
- Shape the next generation of nursing professionals in N.C.
- serve as a role model for your teaching ability and professionalism.
- Improve your ability to be considered for promotion or advancement in your workplace.
- Experience the personal satisfaction of giving back to the health care community in N.C.
- Access to electronic resources at the UNCW UNCW Library.
- Verification of preceptor hours for credentialing and/or licensure; for NP Preceptors: 30 precepting hours may be applied to the annual 50 hours of CE required by the NCBON
- Potential adjunct faculty appointment at the School of Nursing
Credentials & Experience
- North Carolina licensed in relevant field with Approval to Practice and Board Certified
- Recognized as experts in clinical practice; with minimum one year experience as a provider.
Skills
- Able to guide students in meeting the objectives for the practicum.
- Effective with interpersonal skills for supporting a student, providing orientation to the experience, identifying student strengths and weaknesses, and in giving feedback in a constructive manner
- Plan for approximately 180 hours each semester and 600 total hours in the program
- Approve all the student’s written schedule.
- Arrange orientation to the agency.
- Integrate the student into the work of the agency at an appropriate pace.
- Supervise student-client contacts directly or through consultation.
- Consult with faculty at any time deemed necessary to assure student progress.
- Participate in evaluation of the student’s clinical performance.
- Call faculty if any concerns arise about student performance.
Preceptors are invited to view and participate in the following self-paced learning modules:
- AHEC sponsors interprofessional clinical precepting (CP) modules that include the efforts of the regional AHECs (register; free):
- CP 101: The Role of the Clinical Preceptor, Host Clinical Site, and Legal Considerations
- CP 102: Clinical Precepting 102: Planning for and Providing Clinical Learning Experiences
- CP 103: Communication, Learner Self-Assessment and Preceptor Feedback
- CP 104: Managing Difficult Situations in the Clinical Learning Environment
- CP 105: Clinical Precepting: Inclusive Precepting Practices
- CP 106: Clinical Precepting: Disability Inclusion
- Preceptor Portal Vignettes (NONPF)
- Preceptor Tool Kit (AANP)
- GGAPNA (geriatric NP focus)
- Johns Hopkins
Additional Precepting Resources
Here are some excellent resources to help you make the most of the precepting experience:- Mastering the Preceptor Role: Challenges of Clinical Teaching– How to be an effective teacher while maintaining a busy clinical practice.
- Teaching Strategies Used by Expert Nurse Practitioner Preceptors: A Qualitative Study
- The One-Minute Preceptor: Shaping the Teaching Conversation – Well known teaching model that is brief, easy to learn and effective for the preceptor and student.
Interested in serving as a preceptor?
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Diane L. Parker, DNP, FNP-BC, APRN | Graduate Clinical Coordinator