Preceptors — Continuing Education

TITLE 54 PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES CHAPTER 14 NURSES 54-1411A. preceptors — continuing education. (1) In order to promote preceptorship experiences, a primary care health professional applying to renew a professional license pursuant to section 54-1411 , Idaho Code, shall track and report any hours spent acting as a preceptor to a graduate student in a qualified rural area during the prior two (2) years. A preceptor devoting three hundred sixty (360) hours or more during the prior two (2) years in a qualified rural area shall receive credit for such service in the form of continuing education credits or required practice hours or be accorded such other affirmative acknowledgment as the board of nursing shall determine is appropriate in considering the renewal of the preceptor’s license. (2)  For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply: (a)  "Graduate student" means an individual matriculating at the graduate level at any accredited Idaho institution of higher education seeking a degree in any area of nursing licensed under this chapter. (b)  "Preceptor" means a nursing professional licensed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (c)  "Preceptorship" means an uncompensated mentoring experience in which a preceptor provides a program of personalized instruction, training, and supervision for a total of no less than one hundred eighty (180) hours per calendar year that is offered to eligible graduate students to enable the students to obtain professional degrees in primary care fields. (d)  "Primary care" shall have the meaning as provided in section 39-5903 , Idaho Code. (e)  "Qualified rural area" means a primary care health professional shortage area or a medically underserved area, as those terms are defined in section 39-5903 , Idaho Code.