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Desperate Nursing Students Turn to Fixers for Their Clinical Training
Would-be nurse practitioners eager for better preparation have found help in a new cottage industry that shows how a broken system can be fixed.
This is the fourth installment of The Nurse Will See You Now, a series documenting how the increasing reliance on nurse practitioners is imperiling US patients. Read part one here, two here and three here.
Across the US, nurse practitioner students face the same problem. Like medical doctors, they need to complete clinical rotations to graduate. Unlike doctors, they don’t have access to federal funding to support that training, and their schools often leave them to find their own clinical instructors, known in the industry as preceptors.