title: Role of nursing students at rural nurse-managed clinics.
abstract: With stiff competition for clinical sites, one Midwestern university partners nursing students with faculty who provide primary healthcare to clients in 2 rural nurse-managed clinics. Some students are also assigned to follow select clients during weekly home visit rotations for their public health clinical course. The result has been a successful faculty practice and preceptor model that benefits rural communities, a clinical setting that provides opportunities for students to experience client care needs of the underinsured or uninsured in small communities, and student exposure to the financial burdens and challenges of today's healthcare environment in the United States.
authors.affiliation: Purdue University School of Nursing, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. erichards@purdue.edu
authors.forename: Elizabeth Libby
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: O'Neil
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Loretta
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Krebs
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007196:Indiana; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000458:organization & administration; D024802:Nurse's Role; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D013338:Students, Nursing