Editing Herzing Issues: Faculty Instruction and Curriculum Design (section)

=== HU-081b: Preceptors were not briefed, so students had to define their own clinical scope ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
! style="width:14em" | Severity
| Medium
! Status
| CONFIRMED
|-
! Issue type
| Preceptor Orientation Failure: Scope Inversion
! Date added
| 2026-05-05 (split 2026-06-06)
|-
! Owner
| colspan="3" | Clinical Coordinator / Program Chair
|}
'''Finding.''' Per the tracker's evidence, the institution did not brief preceptors on Herzing's clinical expectations, so students had to tell the preceptors what they thought they could do, inverting the normal structure in which preceptors guide students, on December 30, 2023.

'''Evidence.''' Same December 30, 2023 comment by Student F: the institution did not talk to the preceptors, so the students had to tell the preceptors what they thought they could do.

'''Reported statement.''' According to the tracker, Student F said the institution had not talked to the preceptors, so the students had to tell the preceptors what they thought they could do.

'''Standards.''' ACEN Standard 5: preceptors are essential partners and must be oriented to program expectations; standard nursing education practice (NCSBN, AACN) places preceptor orientation on the institution, not the student. Lead: {{HU|HU-081}}.

'''Impact.''' A student is not the appropriate party to define their own clinical scope; the inversion creates patient safety risk and undermines preceptor authority.

'''Notes.''' Sub-issue of {{HU|HU-081}} (lead). Split 2026-06-06. Reported by Student F, documented by the reporting student.

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