Eleven tips for the new college teacher.

New faculty members who may have many years of clinical experience often feel unprepared for the classroom setting. While classes on pedagogy provide many important concepts for teaching, some practical points may be missed. This article offers 11 strategies to make the transition from clinical nursing practice to academia easier, and the teaching role more effective.

Preparing for prescriptive privileges: a standard for the psychiatric-mental health preceptorship.

TOPIC: Establishing a standard for preparation for prescriptive authority for advanced practice psychiatric nurses. PURPOSE: To outline a best practice standard for the clinical and prescriptive authority preceptorship. SOURCES: NACNS and NONPF competencies and practice guidelines. CONCLUSIONS: The authors recommend a clinical preceptorship with planned faculty monitoring, clinical logs, case studies, and group supervision to prepare the psychiatric-mental health advanced practice nurse to serve within the expanded prescribing role.