Family Nurse Practitioner Program
Faculty Spotlight
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Meet Ann Marie Hart, PhD, RN, FNP...
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Historically, Nurse Practitioner (NP) education has relied on outside, non-faculty NP and physician preceptors to provide clinical experiences for students. These preceptors have afforded students with rich instruction and invaluable experience; however, they are often unfamiliar with the NP program’s objectives, curricula, and course sequencing. This can lead to challenges associated with feedback and evaluation and may cause the NP student to feel confused and uncertain about his or her clinical performance. Having experienced these challenges as both a student and a preceptor, I developed and introduced a new model of NP clinical education at the University of Wyoming in the Fall of 2003 called the “Clinical Faculty Mentoring Model”, where faculty are intimately involved in the clinical education of NP students.
In this model, NP students spend several days a semester working one-on-one with an NP faculty member in the faculty member’s practice site. During this time, students benefit from the having the undivided attention of a faculty member who knows exactly where they are in the program and can give appropriate feedback based upon course content and objectives. This model does not replace the time students spend with non-faculty clinical preceptors; rather it builds upon and strengthens these experiences. Students who have been mentored in this model speak enthusiastically of it and offer that the feedback they receive from NP faculty members leads to better performance in all their clinical experiences.
- Ann Marie Hart, PhD, RN, FNP
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Laramie WY 82071
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