Consortium of School Nurse Educators

Nursing education utilizes preceptors as an integral part of clinical nursing education. Preceptorship is acknowl-edged as a strategy to maximize the ben-efits of clinical nursing education in terms of knowledge and skill acquisi-tion, confidence, and professional social-ization. Recently, a model to support preceptorship was developed to dem-onstrate the complexities of preceptor relationships and the factors that influ-ence those relationships which ultimately impact the student learning outcomes (Happell, 2009). This model depicts com-plex relationships between the stake-holders: students, school nurses, fac-ulty, and school districts. According t