Equip faculty and clinicians to develop the skills necessary for precepting RN and APRN students and new orientees! The Nurse Preceptor Toolkit is written by and for RN and APRN clinicians and faculty members from a variety of levels, specialties, and settings. Using real-life examples and practical tips, this comprehensive resource answers the questions preceptors often ask when interacting with students of all levels, as well as new orientees. Within its pages, your faculty and preceptors will find everything they need to develop and solidify the clinical teaching skills essential to becoming effective preceptors.
This completely new book serves as a comprehensive resource for precepting both RN and APRN students and new orientees.
Coverage addresses questions preceptors have asked when interacting with students of all levels, as well as with new orientees.
Content iswritten by and for RN and APRN clinicians and faculty members from a variety of levels, specialties, and settings.
Real-life examples and practical tips guide the development and solidification of the clinical teaching skills needed to become an effective preceptor.
Coverage of essential precepting topics includes effective communication, flexibility, time management skills, providing feedback and support, an understanding of different adult learning styles, and the ability to confidently evaluate student knowledge and competencies.
Chapter objectives serve as “advance organizers” to help prepare budding clinical preceptors for the content that follows.
Exemplars model excellence in clinical precepting through contributor-authored stories of successful faculty-preceptor-learner partnerships related to the content of each chapter.
Boxes highlight tips from successful preceptors.
Appendices provide ready-to-use tools to enhance the preceptor-learner experience.
PART I Setting the Stage 1. Introduction to Precepting
PART II Defining the Preceptor 2. Starting With the Basics 3. Why Precept? 4. Coaching and Mentoring
PART III Framing the Precepting Experience 5. Understanding the Learner and the Learning Process 6. Fostering Effective Preceptor-Learner Communication 7. The Learning Curve: A Parallel Venture for Preceptors and Learners
PART IV Clinical Judgment Skills and Precepting Models 8. Special Precepting Tools for Clinical Judgment
PART V Tools for Precepting 9. Expectations: Preceptors, Faculty, and Academic Programs 10. Providing a Well-Rounded Clinical Experience 11. Special Considerations When Precepting Nurse Practitioner Students 12. Precepting the Undergraduate and Graduate-Entry Nursing Student 13. Onboarding the New Nurse 14. Orienting the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Student 15. Guiding the Nurse Practitioner Student Experience 16. Professional Development for the Preceptor and the Orientee 17. Managing Challenging Behaviors With Learners in Clinical Environments 18. Self-Care for the Busy Preceptor 19. Managing Barriers in the APRN Clinical Site 20. Documentation 21. Evaluation 22. Moving Into Leadership Roles Beyond Practice 23. Precepting in Global Health Experiences 24. Precepting in Specialty Settings 25. Bringing Closure to the Precepting Experience
Beth Heuer, DNP, APRN-CNP, CPNP-PC, PMHS, FAANP, Clinical Professor Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, USA and Cynthia A. Danford, PhD, CRNP, PPCNP-BC, CPNP-PC, FAAN, Nurse Scientist II, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio; Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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