Nurse Practitioner Student Clinical Placement Processes A National Survey of Nurse Practitioner Programs

One of the greatest challenges to educating nurse practitioners (NPs) is identifying quality clinical site placements and preceptors. Significant barriers to securing NP student placements that have been identified include employer productivity demands, preceptor fatigue, and costly, time-intensive electronic health record (EHR) training (Webb, Lopez,& Guarino, 2015; Roberts, Wheeler, Taylor,& Padden, 2017). In addition, billing and coding guidelines require the preceptor to re-document a substantial portion of the student's notes (CMS, 2019).

Source: Nursing Outlook - July 30, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Caroline Lloyd Doherty, Louis Fogg, Mary Beth Bigley, Barbara Todd, Ann Lawrence O'Sullivan Source Type: research