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        <td align="center" colspan="2"><big>'''UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER<br />COLLEGE OF NURSING'''</big></td>
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        <td width="60%"><big>'''Selection and Use of Preceptors for Specialty Roles'''</big></td>
        <td valign="top" width="40%"><big>Subsection: '''6.1.4'''</big></td>
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        <td width="60%">Section 6.0 - Facilities and Resources</td>
        <td width="40%">Originating Date: October 1988</td>
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        <td valign="top" width="60%">Responsible Reviewing Agency:<br /><div style="margin-left:3em; line-height:1.2;">Professional Graduate Nursing Program Curriculum Committee</div></td>
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                	<td>Revised: January 1995<br />Revised: April 1999<br />Revised: September 2002<br />Reviewed: February 2004<br />Revised: October 2008<br />Revised: July 2012</td>
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===Policy===
<p style="margin-bottom:15px; max-width:70em !important;">A preceptor is an APRN, PA, MD, DO, MSN, MBA, MHA, or other identified as an expert with appropriate educational background who has agreed to assume negotiated responsibility for a student’s clinical experience.</p>
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   <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Students in professional graduate nursing programs, excluding post-masters DNP students, are required to complete clinical practicums in order meet certification requirements</li>
   <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">A faculty member is responsible for the following:
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         <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Preceptor orientation and evaluation which should include the following:
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               <li>An overview of the roles and responsibilities of preceptors, faculty and students within the course</li>
               <li>Specific preceptor responsibilities</li>
               <li>Methods of clinical evaluation of students by faculty and preceptors.</li>
               <li>Goals and objectives for the clinical experience</li>
               <li>Process of resolution of potential/actual problems</li>
               <li>Completion of semester course evaluation forms documenting preceptor’s credentials and other required information</li>
               <li>Student and faculty evaluation of preceptor</li>
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         <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Guiding the student clinical experience, which includes facilitating, monitoring, and evaluating the student’s learning through periodic conferences and/or site visits with the student and preceptor.</li>
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   <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Criteria for Preceptors:
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         <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">For MSN students, professionals with an advanced degree appropriate to the specialty with at least one year experience; possessing appropriate certification as required; and identified as positive professional role models by agency and/or faculty.</li>
         <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Expectations of all preceptors:
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               <li>Review semester objectives and goals to facilitate clinical learning</li>
               <li>Review daily objectives to be discussed at the beginning of each clinical day</li>
               <li>Create a learning environment for the student and facilitate the critical thinking skills required of a student</li>
               <li>Complete the Preceptor Credentials form and the Clinical Preceptor Assessment of Student Performance form.</li>
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               <li>Listen to the student’s case presentation on each patient</li>
               <li>Provide feedback about assessments, differential diagnosis, problem lists and proposed plans of care</li>
               <li>See patients with the student</li>
               <li>Supervise the student on all new procedures</li>
               <li>Recheck all abnormal examination findings identified by the student and evaluate the student’s management plans for these problems</li>
               <li>Always be present in the clinical area during the student’s experience, and name a qualified substitute if you must leave the clinic</li>
               <li>Review all student entries in the patient’s health/medical records</li>
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               <li>Facilitate student’s skill in completing an organizational assessment</li>
               <li>Facilitate student’s development, implementation and evaluation of a clinical project.</li>
               <li>Engage student in organizational meetings and follow up to share decision-making related to specific agenda items.</li>
               <li>Dialogue on-going conversations with student related to organizational activities including operations and strategic initiatives.</li>
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<p style="margin-bottom:15px; max-width:70em !important;">The preceptor has a right to ask that the student be placed in another learning environment if problems arise that cannot be resolved.</p>