Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Preceptorship I

4 credits · School of Nursing

This course is the first of a 2-semester clinical experience supporting role transition to AGACNP practice. Students will integrate diagnostic and clinical reasoning principles of entry graduate level practice to deliver comprehensive management of acute and chronic health conditions of acute and critically ill adults and older adults. Students will complete 250 direct clinical practice hours under the supervision of an approved preceptor or preceptor group. In addition to direct precepted experiences, students will accrue a minimum of 30 indirect clinical hours with participation in faculty-guided conferences and on-campus/virtual sessions. Course completion requires 280 total semester clinical hours. Prerequisite: 6013, 6014, 6022, 6024, 6105, 6114 and 8090; pre/corequisite: 6124. [4]