Nurse-managed wellness centers (NMWC) are practice settings that are community based, directed by an advanced practice nurse, and staffed by public health nurses, advanced practice nurses, and other members of an interdisciplinary health care team. The wellness center model stresses primary prevention and facilitates self-care of the individual with regard to health care strategies and decision making. Freestanding NMWC services include health promotion and disease prevention activities that focus on primary and secondary prevention strategies as well as wellness programs. Students from various health care disciplines, such as nursing, pharmacy, social work, physical therapy, and nutrition, actively participate in NMWC activities. Students benefit in multiple ways because clinical assignments at NMWCs expose them to real-life situations that individuals, families, and groups experience beyond the boundaries of the acute care setting. Wellness centers complement existing primary care services. NMWCs are effective and achievable models of health care delivery.