Advanced Practice Preceptors
Clinical preceptors monitor and direct a student's clinical learning experience and act as role models.
Clinical preceptors are APRNs or other clinicians who contribute to the clinical teaching of advanced practice students. Clinicians strive to continuously improve their own skills and knowledge so they can provide high-quality care.
For many excellent clinicians, it is natural to extend their energy and enthusiasm to the preparation of the next generation of APRNs. Precepting provides the clinician an opportunity to teach, share clinical expertise, increase their own knowledge base, serve as a role model and influence changes in APRN education.
Advanced Practice Clinicals
Students in the Advanced Practice programs at the KU School of Nursing must complete clinical practicum experiences relevant to their area of practice and specialization. Clinical practice sites are generally located in the Kansas City metropolitan area, but may extend across the state of Kansas and other communities where students are located.
A variety of settings are utilized, including family practices; primary care and internal medicine clinics; student health services; occupational health clinics; home health services; long-term, assisted living or post-acute care; rural clinics; child, adolescent, adult and geriatric sites; OB/GYN practices; military hospitals; academic medical centers; critical access hospitals; urgent care centers; and federally-qualified health centers.
Program Description
Students in the Advanced Practice programs have completed all specialization (nurse practitioner or nurse-midwife) didactic coursework before beginning their clinical practicum experiences. Students enter their clinical practicum experiences ready to apply their knowledge in any type of patient encounter.