CON Professional Graduate Faculty Clinical Supervision Role

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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER COLLEGE OF NURSING
Professional Graduate Faculty Clinical Supervision Role	Policy: 1511 (4.4.9)
Faculty Policies - Clinical Supervision	Originating Date: May 2017
Responsible Reviewing Agency: Executive Council	Revised: January 2024 (changes) Revised: February 2026 (changes) Revised: May 2026 (changes)

Purpose

Defines the responsibilities and expectations of professional graduate faculty who provide clinical supervision for students completing clinical rotations in an indirect supervision model using approved preceptors.

Scope

This role description applies to professional graduate faculty iwho supervise students enrolled in clinical courses where:

• Clinical experiences are completed at external agencies 
• Students are supervised day-to-day by preceptors
• Faculty maintain oversight of competency progression, evaluation, and course outcomes

Role Summary

Professional graduate faculty clinical supervisors provide academic oversight and structured clinical evaluation of students completing clinical experiences under preceptor supervision. Faculty are responsible for ensuring that students progress toward specialty clinical competencies and that clinical performance is evaluated using UNMC-approved processes, tools, and documentation standards. 

Faculty fulfill this role in accordance with the professional graduate clinical standard operating procedures and utilize the clinical management system and official signature workflows for clinical documentation, preceptor onboarding, evaluation, and remediation processes.

Reporting and Collaboration

Professional graduate faculty clinical supervisors work collaboratively with:

• Course coordinators
• Specialty coordinators
• Clinical placement coordinators
• Preceptors
• Students
• Clinical agencies and affiliated sites (e.g., Nebraska Medicine, VA, Sandord, etc.)

Faculty maintain communication and documentation aligned with specialty processes and UNMC requirements.

Role Responsbilities

Prior to Clinical Rotation

• Understand the specialty clinical competencies within their role area.
• Understand and follow the written processes/policies, which guide the student-preceptor arrangement including specific agency guidelines (e.g. Nebraska Medicine, VA, Sanford).
• Communicate progress, i.e. both completed placements and those that are more difficult to locate, to the specialty coordinator or other assigned person in a timely manner.
• Work with the clinical coordinator to initiate and manage clinical contracts.
• Provide input to the preceptor orientation and student clinical handbooks.
• Establish professional communication with preceptor to include acknowledgement of role and receipt of course materials, including evaluation forms which are found in the Preceptor Handbook.

During the Clinical Rotation

• Complete a minimum of two formal site visits including a formal midterm and final evaluation using the designated evaluation forms. One of these is required to be a direct observation such as a formal site visit via virtual platform or in person
• Follow the UNMC Specialty guidelines for completing/storing the designated evaluation forms.
• Perform additional site visits (in person preferred) as required if there are concerns raised by faculty or preceptor pertaining to students’ ability to meet competencies.
• Discuss clinical concerns and expectations for mentoring into clinical supervision of student role during Specialty Team meetings.
• Evaluate reflective statements from students (Typhon logs, preceptor hours log, journal entries, group clinical supervision for psychiatric NP student, etc.) every 3 to 4 weeks and provide feedback to the student on a timely basis.
• Inform course coordinator and/or specialty coordinator of student progress.
• For an unsatisfactory assessment from the preceptor, there should be formal follow-up site visits or technology-assisted visits to validate the preceptors concerns and observations. Course coordinator should be included in updates and progression decisions.
• Faculty work in conjunction with the preceptor to determine student’s progress but is responsible for determining and recording the student’s grade.

After the Clinical Rotation

• Work with Clinical Coordinator to send thank you letters/certificates of appreciation via requirement of specialties.
• Facilitate receipt of and follow storage guidelines for the designated evaluation forms at end of semester (Semester Summative Evaluation of Student Progress in Achievement of Competency Domains and the Clinical Preceptor Assessment of Student Performance). If forms are not received by the deadline set at the end of the semester, inform student and preceptor that the final grade cannot be posted.