The nursing preceptor rotates throughout various clinical units within healthcare facilities to meet nurse staffing needs to improve quality patient care.
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Description
Abstract
The nursing preceptor rotates
throughout various clinical units within healthcare facilities to meet nurse
staffing needs to improve quality patient care. Preceptors encounter numerous challenges
to understand their roles and support to support newly hired nurses in the
transition process. Taking the novice nursing preceptors through effective
education programs may reduce gaps between preceptees knowledge and skills and
unit/department expectations (Joswiak, 2018). This project aimed to develop an
educational program for nursing preceptors in a hospital setting to promote
newly hired nurses ensuring high-quality patient care. Benner’s From Novice to
Expert Theory was utilized as the theoretical frameworks for this project. Five
content experts voluntarily participated in the review of the educational
PowerPoint for content validity.
Chapter I
Lippincott
Solutions (2017) defined nursing preceptor as an assistant, clinical resource,
experienced nurse who boost and evaluate nursing skills for newly hired nurses
to work independently and confidently.( Consider
changing the first sentence to one that doesn’t start immediately with a
reference ) The preceptor is responsible supporting newly hired nurses. This
creates challenges such as patient safety, professional attitude, workload,
policies, and support. (How does this create
challenges? ) These challenges can result in increased turnovers for
both preceptors and new nurses (Why is the turnover a
concern? A sentence describing the why here is relevant, then go into the
statistics of it )) (Valizadeh, Borimnejad, Rahmani, Gholizadeh, &
Shahbazi, 2016). This is can be costly: one study estimates an up to $58,400
cost for turnover per nurse (What does this mean for
the institution? For patient safety? ) (Kennedy, 2019). A developed
preceptor program can help manage these challenges and decrease the turnovers
rate by understanding the preceptor's roles and learning skills to increase the
confidence, which is essential to train newly hired nurses (Kennedy, 2019). (Does the preceptor program understand the role, or do you
mean the nurses understand their role because of the program? )
