Nurse Preceptor Program Builder, Second Edition

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Create or revitalize an effective preceptor program for only $99!

Today’s preceptors play a vital role in keeping the next generation of nurses at the bedside. Without proper training and support, they are often set up to fail. Help your preceptors turn new nurses or nursing students into competent, energized members of the staff with the Nurse Preceptor Program Builder, Second Edition.

This completely updated book and CD-ROM makes it easy to train effective preceptors, improve orientation and staff satisfaction, and boost retention. You’ll learn new methods to step up your existing program by creating effective workshops and training programs for your preceptors.

Completely revised and expanded

This easy-to-use book contains all new content on:

  • Roles and responsibilities of preceptors and preceptees
  • Adult learning principles and teaching strategies
  • Efforts to build professional practice environments
  • Strategies to help new nurses overcome reality shock
  • Ways to encourage critical thinking, evidence-based decision-making, and time management skills
  • Ideas for creating competency-based orientation programs
  • Strategies for advancing from precepting to mentoring
  • Tips to provide effective feedback and performance evaluations

Guidance on your journey to nursing excellence

If your organization is building or maintaining an ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®* culture of nursing excellence, it needs to show evidence of resources and support for new nurses. The Nurse Preceptor Program Builder, Second Edition can help you do just that that.

The accompanying CD-ROM is packed with all the customizable tools presented in the binder, as well as extra material for holding effective nurse preceptor training workshops. The CD-ROM includes:

  • Two workbooks for participants of Effective Nurse Preceptor Workshops—You can use these workbooks as they are or customize them for your program with the accompanying tools
  • Two PowerPoint slide presentations, aligned with the workbooks, that you can use to accompany your workshops
  • New employee orientation outlines
  • Competency assessment forms, checklists, and agendas
  • Mentoring tools, including relationship guide, mentor application, and mentor agreement
  • Additional tools including sample evaluation forms and guidelines for feedback material—all completely customizable for your facility

Earn 10 continuing education credits!

HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.

This educational activity for 10 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc.

Table of contents

To view the full table of contents, please click here.

About the author

Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, CS, RN-BC, is a clinical nurse specialist in nursing education at the Bay Pines (FL) VA Healthcare System. She is the author of Shared Governance: A Practical Approach to Reshaping Professional Nursing Practice, published by HCPro, and has published and spoken on numerous topics related to nursing, shared governance, competency assessment, education, and staff development, both locally and nationally. She is currently the treasurer for the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (NNSDO), is an ANCC accreditation appraiser, and has served as an ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® appraiser.

Faculty Disclosure Statement: HCPro Inc. has confirmed that none of the faculty/presenters or contributors have any relevant financial relationships to disclose related to the content of this educational activity.

Check out the companion handbook.

Follow this link to learn more about the handbook, The Effective Nurse Preceptor Handbook: Your Guide to Success, Second Edition

Best value! Save money when you order the book and handbook together.

Follow this link to learn more about the toolkit for Nurse Preceptor Training System, Second Edition: Tools for a Successful Preceptor Program

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the need for establishing effective nurse preceptorships in today's complex healthcare environment
  • Differentiate between coaching, precepting, and mentoring
  • Describe the role of preceptorships in orientation
  • Identify three different roles of preceptors
  • Describe essential responsibilities of preceptors
  • Describe the components of an effective preceptorship program
  • Explain how to develop a workshop for training preceptors
  • Describe the process for identifying preceptors and preceptees
  • Identify the risks and rewards of preceptorships
  • Discuss how to manage a complaint by a preceptor or preceptee
  • Identify how preceptors help preceptees develop professional skills and relationships
  • Explain the importance of verbal and non-verbal communication in preceptorships
  • Discuss three communication patterns used by preceptees and preceptors
  • Discuss the principles of adult learning
  • Explain how to apply the principles of adult learning to preceptorships
  • Identify strategies to help new nurses and nursing students overcome reality shock
  • Relate the importance of evidence-based practice to preceptorship
  • Identify critical thinking behaviors and how this helps preceptees
  • Describe how preceptors can help preceptees with time management skills
  • Describe competency-based orientation as it relates to preceptorships
  • Explain how competencies are assessed as part of the preceptor process
  • Identify at least three components of meaningful competency assessments
  • Explain methods used to verify competency
  • Differentiate between performance review and competency assessment
  • Differentiate between performance evaluation and feedback
  • Discuss the four steps in evaluating the performance of preceptees
  • Explain the guidelines for providing effective feedback
  • Describe the transition from preceptorship to mentorship
  • Explain the benefits of entering the next level (mentorship) of professional nurse development
  • Discuss the importance of introducing preceptees to a team concept
  • Identify at least three strategies for expanding effective communication networks
  • Describe a best practice celebrating effective nurse preceptors
  • List at least 10 tips for successful preceptorships
  • Describe three tools to help facilitate effective nurse preceptorships
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Publisher :  HCPro, Inc
 
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Without proper training and support, nurse preceptors are often set up to fail. Help your preceptors turn new nurses or nursing students into competent, energized members of the staff with the Nurse Preceptor Program Builder, Second Edition.
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ORDER CODE: NPPB2
SOURCE CODE: EHB
ISBN: 978-1-57839-986-4
PUBLISHED: 04/09/2007

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