title: Practicum projects of value: a successful strategic partnership between nurse executives and master's level academia.
abstract: The opportunity exists for academia and the nursing executive community to collaboratively create cultures of excellence. One university formed relationships of collaborative synergy with nurse executives to provide practicum experiences of value for both the graduate nursing administration students and the health care facilities. The strategic preceptor partnerships offer graduate students the invaluable opportunity to experience the in-depth, real world perspective of nursing administration resulting in the enrichment of their academic scholarship. A final practicum work project is designed collaboratively with the preceptor and completed by the end of the second practicum semester. The resulting practicum project is an example of a mutually rewarding experience for the graduate nursing administration student and the preceptor. The collaborative synergistic model is a win-win situation for the university and the health care facility.
authors.affiliation: Master's Division, School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Joyce A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hahn
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D011231:Preceptorship; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*