title: The integrative clinical preceptor model: a new method for teaching undergraduate community health nursing.
abstract: The Integrative Clinical Preceptor Model was designed to provide a framework for undergraduate clinical education in community health nursing. The model is based on reciprocal collaboration between students, preceptors, and faculty. Implementation of the model has resulted in individualized, population-focused experiences for students based on the principles of service-learning, empowered preceptors who are able to increase their scope of service, and increased productivity for the faculty in research and scholarship. The authors describe the collaborative partnership between a school of nursing and nurses in community health settings that has resulted in excellent clinical experiences for undergraduate nursing students.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Nursing, 239 Rivers Building, East Carolina University School of School of Nursing, Greenville, NC 27858, USA. mallettes@mail.ecu.edu
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mallette
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Loury
authors.forename: Martha Keehner
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Engelke
authors.forename: Alta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Andrews
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D009657:North Carolina; D011231:Preceptorship; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013663:Teaching