Benefits
Precepting a graduate student provides multiple opportunities to enhance your practice and personal and professional growth.
Common benefits include:
- Provide service to others
- Give back to your profession (remember your preceptors' impact when you were in school?)
- Build a stronger future for the nurse practitioner profession
- Enhance your practice and professional growth
- Build your CV or resume
- Gain affiliate faculty member status at VCU
- Access the VCU library website which includes access to PubMed full text journal articles, UpToDate and other helpful resources
- Access continuing education resources
- Fulfill recertification or re‐licensure requirements
- Stay energized by mentoring, learning new information from students, and clarifying your own thinking as you explain clinical reasoning
- Discover your teaching and mentoring styles
Affiliate Faculty Appointment
The VCU School of Nursing invites and encourages all preceptors to apply for an affiliate faculty appointment. This benefit provides full library privileges and a VCU email account. To apply, you will need to complete a Personal Data Form and submit your updated CV. To maintain this status, you will need to precept at least one student each academic year (fall to summer). The appointment is for two years and can be renewed using the same application process.
For more information and/or to begin the process, email Clinical Placement Specialist Christy Cheesman at cheesmancm@vcu.edu.