• Release Date: November 17, 2025
• Expiration Date: November 30, 2026
• Estimated Time to Complete: 540 minutes
• Cost: Free
• Accreditation: ANCC

Target Audience

This accredited continuing education activity is designed for nurses, nurse practitioners, administrators, and other interested members of the healthcare team who provide or support preceptorship or clinical instruction to new employees or students.

Educational Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participants should be better able to:

• Explain the significance of professional identity in nursing and its impact on enhancing patient outcomes and professional practice across all levels of nursing.
• Discuss innovative delivery strategies of preceptor content based on learner preferences and scope of practice.
• Explain precepting competencies, roles, and administrative supports that are essential for functioning, assessment, and development of the preceptor.
• Identify workforce trends across healthcare settings and how these impact on preceptor development and functioning.

Accredited Continuing Education

In support of improving patient care, University of Nebraska Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Nurses

The University of Nebraska Medical Center designates this activity for 9.0 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should only claim credit for the actual time spent participating in the activity.

Requirements for Successful Completion

In order to receive continuing education credit, you must:

• Read this front matter information
• Register for the program
• Enter User ID and Password (issued after registration) and click “Login”
• Watch the entire learning activity videos
• Pass the post-test with a passing score listed on the page
• Complete the online evaluation, upon successful completion of the post-test and evaluation, your certificate of completion will be available to print or save.

Modules Included

• Professional Identity Conference Welcome by Nelda Godfrey, PhD, ACNS-BC, RN, FAAN, ANEF
• Moving to the Next Generation of Residency and Precepting Approaches: Innovative Ideas for Support and Development by Beth Ulrich, EdD, RN, FACHE, FAONL, FAAN
• Journey to Increasing Preceptor Preparedness: Foundations and Beyond by Carrie Armstrong, MSN, RN, NPD-BC & Lisa Guthrie, PhD, RN, NPD-BC
• Managing Preceptor Assessment by Mary Harper, PhD, RN, NPDA-BC, FAAN
• DIY Workshop: A Microlearning Approach to Build Preceptor Preparedness by Carrie Armstrong, MSN, RN, NPD-BC; Lisa Guthrie, PhD, RN, NPD-BC; & Anna Langer, BSN, RN, NPD-BC, CRRN
• Discovering Innovation in NP Preceptor and Educator Roles by Nelda Godfrey, PhD, ACNS-BC, RN, FAAN, ANEF; Haley Hays, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, ENP-C, AGACNP-BC; & Christopher Reeves, MSN, AGACNP-BC, NPD-BC
• Regional Solutions to the Preceptor and Faculty Shortage: A National Review by Heidi Keeler, PhD, MSN/MBA, RN
• PRIME NP: Advancing Clinical Education Competency, Preceptorship, and Evaluation by Rita D’Aoust, PhD, ACNP, ANP-BC, CNE, FAANP, FNAP; Sally Heusinkvelt, DNP, APRN, ACNP-NP, ANP-BC; & Rebecca Swanson, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC/PC
• Nursing Workforce Trends by Amy Garcia, DNP, MSN, RN, FAAN
• From Fields to Frontlines: Innovations in Rural Health Care by F. Jordan Colwell, DBA, MSN, RN

Disclosure Declaration

As a jointly accredited provider, the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) ensures accuracy, balance, objectivity, independence, and scientific rigor in its educational activities and is committed to protecting learners from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. Faculty (authors, presenters, speakers) are encouraged to provide a balanced view of therapeutic options by utilizing either generic names or other options available when utilizing trade names to ensure impartiality.

All faculty, planners, and others in a position to control continuing education content participating in a UNMC accredited activity are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. As defined by the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. The accredited provider is responsible for mitigating relevant financial relationships in accredited continuing education. Disclosure of these commitments and/or relationships is included in these activity materials so that participants may formulate their own judgments in interpreting its content and evaluating its recommendations.

This activity may include presentations in which faculty may discuss off-label and/or investigational use of pharmaceuticals or instruments not yet FDA-approved. Participants should note that the use of products outside currently FDA-approved labeling should be considered experimental and are advised to consult current prescribing information for FDA-approved indications.

All materials are included with the permission of the faculty. The opinions expressed are those of the faculty and are not to be construed as those of UNMC.

Disclosures

The accredited provider has mitigated and is disclosing identified relevant financial relationships for the following faculty, planners, and others in control of content prior to assuming their roles:

• Faculty:
  The following faculty have nothing to disclose:
• Carrie Armstrong, MSN, RN, NPD-BC
• F. Jordan Colwell, DBA, MSN, RN
• Rita D’Aoust, PhD, ACNP, ANP-BC, CNE, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
• Amy Garcia, DNP, MSN, RN, FAAN
• Lisa Guthrie, PhD, RN, NPD-BC
• Haley Hays, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, ENP-C, AGACNP-BC
• Mary Harper, PhD, RN, NPDA-BC, FAAN
• Sally Heusinkvelt, DNP, APRN, ACNP-NP, ANP-BC
• Heidi Keeler, PhD, MSN/MBA, RN
• Anna Langer, BSN, RN, NPD-BC, CRRN
• Christopher Reeves, MSN, AGACNP-BC, NPD-BC
• Rebecca Swanson, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC/PC
• Beth Ulrich, EdD, RN, FACHE, FANNA, FAONL, FAAN
• Planning commitee:
  The below planning committee members have nothing to disclose:
• Renee Paulin, DNP, MSN, RN, CWOCN
• Erica Sanner-Stiehr, PhD, RN, COI
• Courtney Smith, MBA

Financial Support

This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under 5T1QHP47311-02-00, Nurse Education Practice Quality and Retention: Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academy, award totaling $3,995,519 with 0 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.