Securing preceptors for advanced practice students

Swedish students' and preceptors' perceptions of what students learn in a six-month advanced pharmacy practice experience.

OBJECTIVE To identify what pharmacy students learn during the 6-month advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE) in Sweden. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 pharmacy APPE students and 17 pharmacist preceptors and analyzed in a qualitative directed content analysis using a defined workplace learning typology for categories. RESULTS The Swedish APPE provides student...

A guide for preceptors of advance practice nursing students caring for women and infants.

Women's health care in the United States has been described as unsatisfactory and falling behind the Healthy People 2010 objectives. Inadequate health care due to a shortage of providers is especially problematic for women who are poor with lower socioeconomic status. Advanced practice nurses are well suited to address this need. In this article, preceptor and academic partnerships are discusse...

How students learn from community-based preceptors.

OBJECTIVE To explore how students learn in community-based family physicians' offices from the student's point of view. METHOD Each student completing a community-based family medicine clerkship wrote a "critical incident" narrative about an event that was particularly educational. A coding system was developed by a multidisciplinary research team and thematic analysis was conducted. RESULT...

The dependability of students' ratings of preceptors.

Factors Affecting the Self-directed Learning of Students at Clinical Practice Course for Advanced Practice Nurse.

PURPOSE The current study aimed to examine the casual relationships among belongingness during clinical practice, stress, satisfaction with clinical practice, and self-esteem, which are factors affecting the self-directed learning that results from the clinical practice of advanced practice nurse (APN) students. METHODS Data were collected between April 5 and May 19, 2010, from 202 students i...