NURS 5609 - Regents Online

Course SyllabusStudents will need to arrange for a nurse practitioner or physician to precept this primary care experience.Nurse practitioners must be minimally prepared at the Master's level.Clinical practice experience with an approved NP or MD preceptor in a community setting for 240 hoursduring the term. A family/primary care setting is the preferred clinical setting. Other settings must beapproved by the course coordinator/instructor. Specialty clinics may not be used for >40 hours of the 240total. These must be approved by the course instructor and home school advisor.Continuing education offerings are a wonderful way for NP students to begin to build a network ofprofessional contacts, but it is hard to do that while you are in graduate school. However, any continuingeducation offering must be approved, in advance of the student’s attendance,by the coursecoordinator. A maximum of 10 (ten) contact hours of NP-relevant continuing education offerings maycount toward the semester total of clinical hours. The student must provide a program brochure andevidence of awarded continuing education units (CEUs) in the clinical log as documentation of thisactivity.Preceptor licensure will be verified at http://www2.state.tn.us/health/licensure/index.htm Students areexpected to verify current licensure of a requested preceptor to make certain that information submitted tofaculty contains correct spelling, etc. in order to expedite the verification process.The student will submit the approved practice site to the course faculty via email within one week of thebeginning of the course and before attending clinical. The contract for this site must have been approvedthrough the system in the previous semester. In addition, the clinical information must have beenpreviously sent to the RODP and the Clinical Coordinator. In the subject of the email write "PreceptorInformation" In the body of the email include:· Name of preceptor (as officially listed on the verification site above)· Credentials of preceptor (FNP, MD, DO)· Name and address of practice site· Type of patients served at practice site (e.g., pediatric practice, family practice)THE STUDENT CANNOT BEGIN THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE UNTIL APPROVAL IS RECEIVEDFROM FACULTY. STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTACT FACULTY IF DIFFICULTY ISEXPERIENCED LOCATING A PRECEPTOR.Textbooks, Supplementary Materials, Hardware and Software RequirementsRequired Textbooks:Please visit the Virtual Bookstore to obtain textbook information for this course: http://rodp.bkstr.comRequired Textbooks and Resources:2 | P age 9/27/2011