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ForwardAPP Preceptor Workshop - January 12, 2021
This workshop is FREE for Current and Former University of Wisconsin–Madison Preceptors
Contact Stacy Davidson, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing, Clinical Placement Coordinator for more information.
NEW - Live Virtual Learning Opportunity, Precepting and Telehealth Content
Becoming an effective preceptor requires specific preparation and support. This workshop focuses on competence and skills that clinical preceptors need when serving as preceptors to advance practice nurses, physician assistants, and other graduate clinical learners. Course content includes time management, critical thinking, providing evaluation and feedback, learner styles, motivating and working with a challenging student, and precepting with telehealth.
Statement of Need and Purpose
Advance practice provider (APP) training programs rely on high quality clinical preceptors to provide real-world clinical experiences and socialize students to the role of the APP. Nurse practitioner and physician assistant training programs often do not include preceptor development. Many graduate clinical preceptors have never received formal preceptor training and feel deficient in their ability to set goals, create an adequate learning environment, provide feedback, and evaluate student performance in a busy clinic setting.
The purpose of this interprofessional workshop is to teach clinical preceptors to graduate students the necessary skills to become effective and successful preceptors.
Intended Audience
This workshop is designed to meet the needs of health care providers who precept graduate students in their clinical practice.
Elements of Competence
This CE activity is designed to change learner competence and performance, focusing on the American Board of Medical Specialties’ areas of practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, and professionalism, and the Interprofessional and Nursing areas of roles/responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and teams/teamwork.
Learning Objectives
Following this workshop, learners will be able to:
- Name two techniques for evaluating critical thinking in graduate clinical learners
- Demonstrate providing timely, specific feedback to a graduate clinical learner
- Describe a plan for addressing challenging student encounters
- Distinguish between nurse practitioner and physician assistant student competency prior to clinical rotations
- Identify precepting strategies to use when delivering healthcare through telemedicine
Successful Completion
Learners will participate in interactive simulations and cased-based and small-group discussions that focus on real world experiences. Pre- and post-activity scenario-based tests and evaluations are required.
Agenda
| Session Time | Topics/Highlights |
| 7:30-7:50 AM | Introductions
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7:50 - 8:20 AM | Time Management Kristen Panther / Sarah Williamson
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8:20-8:50 AM | Critical Thinking Sarah Endicott
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| 8:50-9:00 AM | Break |
9:00-10:00 AM | Evaluation and Feedback Kristen Panther
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10:00-10:25 AM | Learner Styles Beverly Speece
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| 10:25-10:35 AM | Break |
10:35-11:35 AM | Motivation and Challenging Preceptee Sarah Endicott
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11:35-12:00 PM | Precepting Strategies for Telemedicine Kristen Panther |
| 12:00-12:30 PM | Wrap-up
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PROGRAM CHANGES
Emergency situations occasionally occur and may necessitate topic or speaker changes. The University of Wisconsin-Madison ICEP reserve the right to alter or substitute a topic or speaker without prior notification.
WEBCAST LINK
A link will be sent to learners prior to the workshop.
REQUIRED HARDWARE/SOFTWARE
Free, current version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge with audio and video capabilities. Some older browsers and Microsoft Explorer could produce error messages or not display the content correctly.
FACULTY
Sarah Endicott, DNP, APNP, GNP-BC, Clinical Professor, UW-Madison School of Nursing | Sarah Endicott, DNP, APNP, GNP-BC, Clinical Professor, UW-Madison School of Nursing Sarah Endicott is a board-certified geriatric nurse practitioner with experience in adult medicine and memory diagnostic centers. She is the population lead for the Adult/Gerontology Primary Care DNP Cohort. In addition to teaching, Dr. Endicott maintains a clinical practice in skilled nursing facilities in rural Wisconsin. Her interests include advanced care planning and the education and support of caregivers for people living with dementia. |
Kristen Panther, MSN, APNP, ANP-BC, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, UW Health | Kristen Panther, MSN, APNP, ANP-BC, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, UW Health Kristen Panther is licensed as an Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber and board-certified in adult health by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. In her work, Kristen focuses on health promotion of well adults and chronic disease management, with specific interest in women's health (including contraception), diabetes, hypertension, nutrition, and lifestyle management of obesity. |
Beverly J. Speece, MTS, PA-C, Director of Clinical Education/Clinical Instructor, UW–Madison PA Program | As the PA Program Director of clinical education, Speece oversees and coordinates onsite experiences for students during the clinical component of the program. She first joined the UW–Madison PA Program in 2005 as a course coordinator for clinical medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, and the professional issues for physician assistants and assumed the responsibility of Director of Clinical Education in May 2013. Speece is a 1997 graduate of UW–LaCrosse’s first Physician Assistant Program, and her background prior to PA school involved teaching various science courses at Madison College, working in an intensive care unit and volunteering as an EMT. Clinically, Speece has worked five years in family practice in the Twin Cities, 10 years in emergency medicine in Madison and Milwaukee and one year in cardiology in Milwaukee. |
Sarah Williamson, MPAS, PA-C, Faculty Associate, UW–Madison PA Program | Sarah Williamson, MPAS, PA-C, Faculty Associate, UW–Madison PA Program Sarah Williamson, MPAS, PA-C, joined the UW–Madison Physician Assistant Program in Spring 2020. Williamson says she gained new appreciation for education while practicing at UW Hospital and Clinic’s cardiovascular medicine clinic. “Coming to an academic center I knew I’d be teaching, but I didn’t realize just how much—or how much I would enjoy it!” Williamson arranges second-year rotations and testing, strengthens relations with current clinical sites and build connections with new sites. A specialist in cardiovascular electrophysiology, she also teaches cardiology in the Physician Assistant Program. |
PLANNING COMMITTEE
| Sarah Endicott, DNP, APNP, GNP-BC, Clinical Professor, UW–Madison School of Nursing | Tracy Mrochek, MPA, RN, Program Coordinator, UW–Madison Nursing Professional Development | Beverly J. Speece, MTS, PA-C, Director of Clinical Education/Clinical Instructor, UW–Madison PA Program |
| Nina Berge, BA, Administrative Assistant, UW–Madison Nursing Professional Development | Kristen Panther, MSN, APNP, ANP-BC, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, UW Health | Sarah Williamson, MPAS, PA-C, Faculty Associate, UW–Madison PA Program |
| Emily Jumper, Specialist-APP Education & Professional Development, UW Health-Office of Advanced Practice Providers | Rosa Retrum, MSE, Clinical Coordinator, UW–Madison PA Program |
* Workshop Director
Financial Disclosures
Accreditation Statement
 | In support of improving patient care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP 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. |
Credit Designation Statements
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.50 ANCC contact hours.
Iowa Board of Nursing accepts ANCC contact hours for nursing continuing education requirements.
AAPA Credit Designation Statement
 | The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. The enduring program (recorded sessions) is designated for 4.50 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. This live activity is designated for 4.50 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation |
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, as a member of the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), authorizes this program for .45 CEUs or 4.50 hours
Available Credit
- 4.50 AAPA Category 1 CME
- 4.50 ANCC Contact Hours
- 4.50 University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education Hours
This workshop is FREE for Current and Former University of Wisconsin–Madison Preceptors
Contact Stacy Davidson, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing, Clinical Placement Coordinator for more information.
You may only enroll in one course.
Required Hardware/software
Free, current version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge with audio and video capabilities. Some older browsers and Microsoft Explorer could produce error messages or not display the content correctly.