Nursing preceptor workshops: partnership and collaboration between academia and practice.

Educating hospital nurses about the clinical nursing preceptor role is necessary to attract expert nurses to become preceptors for undergraduate nursing students. To accomplish the goal of teaching and recruiting nurse preceptors, partnerships were developed to provide preceptor workshops in the New Orleans, Louisiana, area. Collaboration between hospital nurse educators and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing faculty resulted in several workshop offerings.