A literature review identified nursing student support models in the practice environment, roles/responsibilities of preceptors, staff preparation and support for the role, benefits of preceptorship, and difficulties encountered. A partnership approach of shared ownership, responsibility, and commitment by stakeholders was found crucial to…

Nursing students received research training and used clinical assessment tools to gather information from women after cesarean births. The project enhanced skills for clinical assessment and helped students understand the relationship between the nursing process and nursing research. (Contains 16 references.) (SK)

Preceptors' leadership characteristics influence nursing students' clinical experience. Preceptors' leadership styles can be assessed with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator or Hersey and Blanchard's Leader Behavior Analysis II instrument, which identifies four styles based on situational leadership. (Contains 25 references.) (SK)

Offers suggestions about encouraging nursing students to expand their critical thinking skills. Reviews the attitudes, knowledge, and cognitive skills needed for developing critical thinking skills. (JOW)

A rationale for offering clinical clerkships in community pharmacies is presented, and the general structure and content of such a program are outlined. (MSE)

The New England College of Optometry's two separate but integrated clinical postgraduate programs, one providing Veterans' Administration residencies and the other, college-based fellowships, are described. The shared curriculum components, exchange process, and evaluation system are highlighted. (MSE)

In Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, postgraduate nursing curricula were reformed, but discrepancies appeared between stated goals and actual content, due largely to inexperience with nursing education. Other difficulties included lack of literature in native languages and insufficient reading ability in English. (SK)

The 440 interventions completed by pharmacy residents in an inpatient on-call program were analyzed for their source (self-initiated, solicited by physician or staff pharmacist), type (selection of dosage, schedule, drug level monitoring, route of administration), impact on quality of care, cost of care, and clinical significance. (Author/MSE)

Describes a faculty development program designed to implement the concept of culture in clinical practice settings and to stimulate culturally focused nursing research. (JOW)

Third year medical students (n=26) participated in a pilot program of an entirely outpatient multispecialty clinic experience. Overall, 61 percent of outpatient encounters involved a surgical diagnosis currently managed entirely on an outpatient basis, illustrating the importance of this setting in broad student exposure to surgery and surgical…

Compared to 120 controls, 80 nursing students participating in international clinical-immersion experiences showed a significant increase in cultural self-efficacy and awareness, ability to overcome ethnocentrism, and ability to integrate patients' cultural beliefs into health-care practices. (SK)

Student Nurses in action is an interdisciplinary academic-service-research partnership model that brings health care to urban, suburban, and rural communities. A 5-year evaluation gave the program excellent ratings for cost-effectiveness, student experience, and quality of care. (SK)

Describes accountability methods built into practicums for school psychology trainees. Results of intervention-based services were summed across individual cases developed by trainees as a means of examining the overall effectiveness of the practicum experiences. Outcomes are reported as procedural adherence to the model of service delivery,…

A centralized relational database is used to manage information on advanced practice nursing students and their preceptors at Johns Hopkins University. The system relieves faculty of time-consuming tasks and enables rapid report generation, consistent tracking, and timely communications. (SK)

Clinical concept mapping promotes critical thinking and prepares nursing students for clinical experience by helping them organize patient data and view patients holistically. It aids their assessment of what they know and what they still need to learn. (SK)