37519 Prepare for Precepting: Being Effective, Delivering Feedback, and Avoiding Problems

Course overview

Discusses preparing for precepting, including the characteristics of effective preceptors and clinicians, the characteristics of feedback, approaches to giving effective feedback that includes addressing potential barriers, how to identify potential problems early on, and strategies to prevent problems before they occur. Nurse preceptors play an important role in fostering a positive environment for graduate nurses and nurses in new practice settings, helping to bridge the gap between nursing school and hospital employment. Precepting is crucial in encouraging the competence, familiarity, confidence, socialization, and security of nurses in an unfamiliar environment, but often preceptorship can be challenging, even for experienced nurses. Preceptors provide valuable teaching and learning experiences, while serving as a role model for safe patient care. The role of a preceptor encompasses much more than just being a teacher or mentor, and effective preceptors can play a significant role in the satisfaction and retention of nurses new to a unit, leading to decreased nurse turnover. This program discusses characteristics of effective nurse preceptors, how to provide effective feedback, how to avoid potential barriers to feedback, and how to detect and prevent potential problems related to being a preceptor to others.