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NONPF Preceptor Training Videos

The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) created Preceptor video vignettes to assist preceptors in enhancing their skills in their interactions with students. The following video vignettes are used with permission from NONPF.

Precepting the Acute Care NP Student (6:50)

This video will give you a framework to provide feedback to students in an acute care setting, the emergency department. It focuses on how to have the students collect an accurate history assessment and provide differential diagnoses.

Primary Care Setting (5:58)

This video shows a preceptor and student interaction in a primary care setting. In addition, it demonstrates how to provide feedback to a student following an outpatient visit by reinforcing what is done right and correcting mistakes.

Working with the Overly Confident Student (7:21)

This video shows a preceptor's interaction with an overly confident and confrontational NP student. It demonstrates strategies for communicating expectations and providing constructive feedback.

Dealing with the Challenging Student: The Overly Sensitive Student (9:18)

This video shows a preceptor's interaction with an overly sensitive student. It illustrates different approaches to mentoring students in professional behavior and expectations and providing constructive feedback.

Preparing to Precept: Precepting in a Busy Clinic (12:32)

Preceptors may have to navigate managing a busy clinic while educating NP students. This video provides strategies for pre-planning activities that maximize time.

Preparing to Precept: Precepting Pediatric Clinical Experiences (7:20)

Preceptors in pediatric settings may encounter students without pediatric experience. This video provides strategies for preparing NP students for this population.

Precepting in an Interprofessional Educational Clinic Model (19:31)

This instructional video prepares clinical preceptors to support an interprofessional education experience for students of healthcare professions who will have clinical experience in a community practice environment.