Practice at UF College of Nursing
The UF College of Nursing is engaged in a wide range of practice settings, reflecting the depth and versatility of its faculty and clinicians. From primary care and specialty services to community outreach and innovative care models, these efforts advance patient care, support education and strengthen health outcomes across diverse populations.
Academic Practice Partnership
moving beyond the classroom
Practice Partnerships
Enhancing student clinical experiences and improving patient care through educational and clinical affiliations and partnerships with health care agencies throughout the state.
Enhancing student clinical experiences and improving patient care require College of Nursing faculty members to move beyond the classroom. Educational and clinical affiliations and partnerships with health care agencies throughout the state accomplish these objectives. Active partnerships with practice colleagues provide opportunities for the College to develop innovative solutions, which are needed to address the nation’s complex nursing shortage. The UF College of Nursing maintains active affiliations with more than 300 community and state health care agencies, hospitals and health care settings.
Through clinical affiliations, partnerships and the college’s faculty practice initiatives, faculty members and students provide services to underserved patients and demonstrate the most current practice approaches.
The colleges of the Academic Health Center and their associated health care delivery networks provide access to an integrated system of community hospitals and clinics, statewide home health care, a veterans’ health system and UF Health Shands Hospital. In addition, partnerships with such first-rate health care facilities, like North Florida Regional Medical Center, the Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center and UF Health Jacksonville provide superior clinical experiences for the next generation of Gator Nurses, in addition to improving the health of our communities.
Faculty Practice
personalized nursing care
Faculty Practice
Faculty maintain and participate in nursing and interdisciplinary clinics with special emphasis on underserved and rural populations.
The College of Nursing maintains and participates in nursing and interdisciplinary clinics for women, children, adults and the elderly with special emphasis on underserved and rural populations through faculty practice. In 1998, the college became the first Florida college of nursing to incorporate as a nonprofit Faculty Practice Association, which generates income to strengthen the college’s educational and research programs and provides financial incentives to practicing faculty members.
Most of the settings in which faculty members practice focus on rural and underserved populations. Patients include those with chronic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS, pregnant women, cancer patients, patients with chronic back pain, families, children, psychiatric/mental health patients and pediatric trauma patients.
Faculty practice sites serve as extended classrooms for both undergraduate and graduate nursing students who join faculty members in providing care. Having students at the practice sites provides the students with valuable learning experiences, and practicing faculty members are better teachers because of the currency of their practices and they are able to maintain national certification requirements.
Agencies with which the college partners include the Maternal-Infant Care Clinic in Reddick; the UF Shands Eastside Community Practice in Gainesville, WellFlorida Council’s HIV/AIDS clinics throughout north and central Florida; and the UF College of Medicine’s Division of Neonatology.
Archer Family Health Care
Nurse-Managed primary care
Archer Family Health Care
Located in the rural town of Archer, offering high-quality adult, pediatric, psychiatric and women’s health care.
UF Health Archer Family Health Care, located in the rural community of Archer, is UF Health’s first nurse-led primary care clinic and offers comprehensive health services, including physical exams, immunizations, management of acute and chronic conditions, behavioral health counseling and treatment and more.
UF Health Archer Family Health Care offers high-quality primary care and behavioral health services for children, adults and families in Archer and the surrounding rural areas. Managed by the University of Florida College of Nursing, this clinic provides quality family medicine for all ages.
Our team includes family and psychiatric nurse practitioners, a practice manager and excellent support staff working together to serve as your community resource for quality primary care and family medicine services.
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Support AFHC for UFCC
Support College of Nursing faculty practice activities that provide needed health care services while supporting the college’s educational mission. This fund supports Archer Family Health Care, which is the College’s first nurse-managed health care practice and offers adult, pediatric, psychiatric and women’s health care in the rural town of Archer, FL.
