Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2025

Preceptor Burnout : Experienced nurse practitioners often decline precepting due to previous negative experiences or concerns about decreased productivity without compensation. Administrative Complexities : Even with willing preceptors, navigating affiliation agreements, liability insurance, and credentialing processes can derail placements.

Preceptors

Healthy Workforce Institute

JUNE 12, 2024

If you have a nurse turnover problem, chances are you have a preceptor problem. If you struggle to retain your new nurses, it’s time to look closely at your preceptors. The Role of Preceptors in Nurse Turnover When working with a group of preceptors, we asked how many had been taught how to be preceptors.

Preceptors

Daily Nurse

JULY 14, 2023

As registered nurses, we put a lot of time and effort into obtaining and organizing documents we must maintain. Where are you documenting that? We should all record our many accomplishments, such as presentations, publications, preceptor hours, acts of service, etc. Your Gmail™ account also gives you access to Google Drive ™.

Preceptors

The Nurse Break

APRIL 1, 2023

Preceptors can make or break a young nurse’s experience. My first preceptor was attentive, kind, patient and helped guide me into the world of nursing. Even simple things like noticing good hand hygiene, thorough documentation, or a good bedside manner are positives to feedback on.

Preceptors

Nursing Inquiry

AUGUST 25, 2023

The importance of faculty, preceptors, and patients in the socialization of nursing students has been documented extensively in the literature. Next, preceptors can be barriers or facilitators of learning by demonstrating how to act like nurses and providing insight about how and why nurses may act the way that they do.

Preceptors

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A new grad nurse tells the story of a preceptor who seems determined to sabotage her orientation period, assuredly setting her up for failure and job loss. These statements are sadly true, and the problem is too well documented to ignore.

Preceptors

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Nurse Journal reports that novice nurses’ most common errors are medication errors, infection issues, documentation errors, and not reporting the correct information to healthcare providers when their patients’ condition is deteriorating. These errors can cause serious harm or adverse outcomes to patients.

Preceptors

Nurse.com

AUGUST 24, 2023

Mahoney, for instance, is documented as the first Black nurse to have earned a nursing degree. I had no idea what that meant until I began my first job working on a med-surg floor with my new co-workers and my preceptor. I kept my ancestors in mind as I researched schools and submitted my nursing school applications.

Preceptors

Healthy Workforce Institute

MAY 17, 2023

I saw you showing Bridget (a new nurse) how to document med reconciliation. I know you’re not her preceptor – just wanted to thank you for helping her.” Catch them doing something right It’s easy to identify what’s wrong. You want to deliberately catch them doing something right. “Hi Lucas.

Preceptors

American Nurse

AUGUST 30, 2023

Bewitched, bothered, bewildered, and benevolent Every nurse has heard of Patricia Benner’s skills acquisition novice to expert model—still a serious and salient nursing document. The eager nursing students might sometimes see sparks fly from burnt out staff members and wonder to themselves: “What am I getting into?”

Bedside nursing

Every Nurse

OCTOBER 9, 2022

What to Expect in Nursing School Clinical Rotations Nursing clinicals are supervised periods of hands-on training in which nursing students experience the daily work of a professional healthcare provider and practice nursing skills under the direction of a preceptor. You May Also Like How Do Clinical Rotations Work in Online Nursing Schools?

Preceptors

American Nurse

JULY 8, 2023

Evidence-based strategies for nurse preceptors The complex role of nurse preceptor requires a combination of clinical expertise and the ability to balance patient care with learning facilitation. That’s where the nurse preceptor comes in. See Teachable moments.) Let’s get the pulse oximeter and check their oxygen saturation.”

Preceptors

Empowered Nurses

OCTOBER 10, 2024

When experienced staff or well-meaning peers demonstrate shortcuts—omitting certain documentation, skipping patient checks, or bypassing protocols to save time—it can be incredibly enticing. Inadequate documentation can leave a nurse unable to defend their actions in court, putting their license at risk.

Licensing

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, mentors are distinct from preceptors. A preceptor is a nurse you’re paired with to learn the ropes of a particular position or unit. The required documentation can sometimes be so burdensome that it detracts from the creativity the pair could otherwise cultivate if left to their own devices.

Preceptors

American Nurse

AUGUST 1, 2024

Define the differences between mentorship and preceptor programs, and the benefits of implementing a mentorship program. For new graduate nurses in particular, the preceptor relationship typically terminates around the same time reality shock sets in, leaving the novice nurse without a support system when they most need it. March 2024.

Professional Development

Consult QD

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In a recent episode of Cleveland Clinic’s Nurse Essentials podcast , Stuck Boyd shares insight on nurse residency programs, including: What new nurse graduates should look for in a residency program The difference between orientation and residencies The importance of residencies providing holistic support and supporting nurses’ well-being How nurse (..)

Preceptors

Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

Enhance your nurse retention programs — Each year, our Nurse Salary Research Report documents exactly what nurses say they want in their workplace of choice. Behavioral characteristics — Assess individual personality attributes to match a nurse to a unit or preceptor.

Nurse Shortage

Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

On every new rotation we started over with new preceptors with no new details about COVID-19, just new requirements for what must be documented and when since each unit was different. When my preceptor got COVID-19, I was left alone. On my third rotation, my new preceptor began teaching me the specifics of my job specialty.

Preceptors

Daily Nurse

JANUARY 18, 2024

Her revolutionary biostatistical practices are credited with saving the lives of numerous soldiers as she uncovered and documented preventable causes of death that were all too common in hospitals during the Crimean War. Was Florence Nightingale a change agent? Without a doubt.

Preceptors

Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

On every new rotation we started over with new preceptors with no new details about COVID-19, just new requirements for what must be documented and when since each unit was different. When my preceptor got COVID-19, I was left alone. On my third rotation, my new preceptor began teaching me the specifics of my job specialty.

Preceptors

Capitol Beat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

For our regulatory advocacy, ANAs Policy Team has crafted a priorities document to share with internal and external stakeholders and policymakers. Investments in nursing education and recruitment will attract more nurses, nurse faculty, and nurse preceptors.

APRN

American Nurse

JUNE 5, 2024

The program placed students on med-surg units and paired them with nursing assistants as preceptors under the supervision of an RN. Students also received hands-on computer training for documentation. Students are assigned to acute care and am­bulatory settings and work the same shifts as their assigned preceptors.

Preceptors