This paper offers documents from and descriptions of a collaborative project in clinical placements of student nurses in nursing homes as part of a nursing education program. The original project participants were the College of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts/Boston (UMass/Boston); the division of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and the Massachusetts Long Term Care Foundation, an education and research arm of the Massachusetts Federation of Nursing Homes. Individual sections address: (1) the need for nurses in institutions providing long term care, long term care facility in Massachusetts, and a comparison of acute care and long term care facilities; (2) university linkages with nursing homes (choosing a placement site, facility objectives); (3) gerontological nursing/long term care in the undergraduate nursing curriculum (curriculum overview of UMass/Boston College of Nursing Baccalaureate Curriculum); (4) clinical placements (placement and description of two projects for clinical students); (5) gerontological nursing/long term care in the graduate nursing curriculum (curriculum overview, course outlines); (6) graduate clinical placements; (7) resolving problems; and (8) impacts of clinical placement on students at various levels and four recommended curriculum guides. (JB)