Train New Nurse Preceptors
Techniques to Avoid Preceptor Burnout and Change Fatigue
Product Description:
WEBCAST ON CD OR ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by:
Nurse Preceptor Program Builder, Second Edition
Want to make a difference between success and failure in new nurses’ first few months?
The price of ineffective preceptors is paid in high new nurse turnover, low new nurse competency, and reduced quality and safety in patient care. Find the right preceptors and provide effective orientation and ongoing support with the strategies and tools presented in this 90-minute webcast with experts Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, CS, RN-BC, and Elizabeth Roten, RN, MSN-Ed. These experienced professionals guide you through revitalizing or revamping your preceptor training, mentoring, and orienting and provide preceptors with best practices to improve new nurse training and balance precepting with patient care responsibilities. Well-run preceptor programs can make the difference between success and failure in new nurses’ first few months and prevent preceptor burnout and change fatigue.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Identify at least three characteristics for what makes a good preceptor
- Explore common barriers to quality precepting
- Describe a basic training curriculum for new nurse preceptors
- State three best practices seen in successful orientations for new nurse preceptors
- Describe three effective approaches for providing feedback and assisting preceptors with identify learning goals
- Identify three new approaches for precepting during high-acuity times
- Discuss at least two ways a preceptor can get the most out of the precepting experience
Benefits:
- Optimize patient care and staff development
- Improve nursing orientation results and see heightened staff engagement
- Train preceptors to provide feedback that promotes professional growth
- Guide preceptors by identifying learning goals to improve orientation, education, and preparation for practice
Take a look at the agenda:
- Choosing great nurse preceptors
- How to make the role of nurse preceptor a valid one
- Characteristics and qualities of great nurse preceptors
- Removing common barriers to quality precepting
- Helping preceptors embrace precepting as an opportunity to influence now and future best practices at points of service through their unique relationships with preceptees
- Preceptor program development
- Setting clear expectations
- Basic training curriculum for new nurse preceptors
- Consistency in training and development
- Orientation into the preceptor role and ongoing support
- Best practices in successful orientations for new nurse preceptors
- Effective approaches for providing feedback
- Guide preceptors by identifying learning goals to improve orientation, education, and preparation for practice
- How preceptors can get the most out of the precepting experience
- Helping preceptors move orientation beyond a “check off” sheet of orientation topics to ensure high-quality nursing orientation outcomes
- How to balance patient care and education when precepting during high-acuity times: New approaches to precepting create opportunity for improved care and preceptee learning
- Questions and answers
Bonus tools included in your materials packet:
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this Webcast, you’ll also receive bonus tools in your materials packet, including:
- Guidelines for providing effective feedback
- Preceptor and preceptee interview
- Preceptor development plan
- New employee orientation competency assessment
- Sample policy for preceptorship program
- Self-assessment form
- Preceptoring relationship guide
- Preceptorship agreement
- Learning styles chart
- BEER feedback tool
Meet the speakers:
Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, CS, RN-BC, is a healthcare consultant and educator. She is the author of the Nurse Preceptor Training System, published by HCPro, and a member of the steering committee for the American Association for Preceptors. She has served multiple terms both as an American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program® appraiser and as Treasurer for the National Nursing Staff Development Organization. She chairs the American Association for Preceptors steering committee and is currently an ANCC accreditation commissioner.
Elizabeth Roten, RN, MSN-Ed, is a Nurse Educator and instructor. Roten provides ongoing direction to nursing education in multiple formal and informal nursing roles promoting best practices in nursing and nursing education. She has been a speaker for an array of topics related to Hospice and Palliative Care. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, Western Colorado Nightingale Committee and is an ELNEC certified educator. Her career has included roles as a Clinical Oncology Research Nurse, Medical-Surgical Nurse, Director for Nursing Practice focusing on Hospice and Palliative Care, Preceptor and Nursing Instructor.
Who should listen?
Directors of staff development, nursing professional development specialists, nurse educators, staff educators, nurse managers, charge nurses, chief nursing officers, directors of nursing, VPs of nursing, VPs of patient care services, directors of education, staff development specialists, clinical nurse specialists, and clinical managers
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