With my background in Mental health nursing and teaching psychiatric nursing and community health nursing, I can attest that having staff at those outpatient sites usually did not have a graduate degree. This placed additional stress on finding students varied clinical experiences.  I believe that in today’s health care needs focusing on outpatient rehabilitation, for psychiatric needs and community health needs,  it will be critical for us to consider how to maximize the best clinical rotations in mental and community health nursing when the facilities does not always have graduate nurses to precept the BSN students. 

I agree with others who have commented on the value in augmenting that clinical faculty can hold a BSN degree since some of them have been working in their specialty or clinical area  for a period of time.