APRN Preceptor Toolbox

Welcome SDSU FNP Preceptors

Thank you for supporting our SDSU FNP students. We greatly appreciate it.  

Clinical Coordinators

• Sioux Falls: Dr. Robin Arends 
• Rapid City: LeAnn Lamb 

Preceptor Information

• Preceptor Handbook
• AANP Recertification Handbook (precepting information - pg. 22)  
• Preceptor Form for CE credits

CE Opportunities

• Featured CEs (2.25)
  • Safe Opioid Prescribing Series: How to Safety and Effectively Treat Pain in Primary Care
• Other CEs
  • AANP CE Center

Videos Vignettes for Preceptors to View from NONPF

• Precepting the Primary Care NP Student
• Precepting the Acute Care NP Student
• Precepting in a Busy Clinic
• Preparing NP Students for Pediatric Clinical Experiences
• Working with the Overly Confident NP Student

Student/Preceptor Clinical Hours

Spring (N765 - 1st Clinical): 240 hours total - Mid January to the end of April

• Primary Care Provider (Family Health/Peds/Rural Health): 160 hours in 16 weeks. This turns out to be 1 to 2 per days per week depending how the student and preceptor schedules hours.
  • Pediatrics (40 hours): These hours count towards primary care.
• Specialty hours (74 hours)
  • Dermatology (37 hours)
  • ENT (37 hours)
• Simulation (6 hours)

Summer (N768 - 2nd Clinical): 240 hours total - First of May to the end of July

• Primary Care Provider (Family Health/Peds/Rural Health) – 100 to 120 hours  
• Specialties – 120 to 140 hours
  • Pediatrics
  • Women’s Health
  • Mental Health
  • ENT
  • Dermatology

Fall (N771 - 3rd clinical): 240 hours total - End of August to the end of November

• Primary Care Provider (Family Health/Internal Med/Peds/Rural Health) – 160 hours in 16 weeks.
• Specialties: 74 hours
  • Orthopedics (34 hours)
  • Women’s Health (40 hours)
  • More Peds if not on track.

Spring (N776 - 4th clinical): 300 hours total - Mid January to the end of April   

• Primary Care Provider (Family Health/Internal Med/Peds/Rural Health): 200 hours in 16 weeks.
• Specialties: 92 hours
  • Emergency Department/Urgent Care/Other Specialties (92 hours)
• Other Specialties
  • Hospitalists
  • Mental Health
  • Neurology
  • Heart Doctors
  • GI
  • Pain Clinic
  • Nephrology
  • Hospice
• Simulation (8 hours)

***** Preceptors (sometimes facility) are paid $10/hour *****