Effective Preceptor Handbook for Nurses (10 Pack) Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, APN CS, RN-BC The Effective Preceptor Handbook for Nurses provides new preceptors with the evidence-based skills they need to build supportive one-on-one teaching and learning relationships with new nurses. In this invaluable and compact handbook, nurse preceptors in training will learn how to access adult learning styles, validate competencies, develop critical feedback and evaluation skills, and gain confidence to successfully onboard and launch their preceptees. Preceptors will also be introduced to the idea of portfolio-building as a way to prepare for certification. Couple this handbook with The Preceptor Program Builder and The Essential Preceptee Handbook to create a comprehensive program resource that meets the needs of your professional development staff, preceptors, and new staff members. Benefits: The Effective Preceptor Handbook for Nurses prepares new preceptors for the important roles and responsibilities they will face as they orient nurses to the clinical environment, including: Applying evidence-based practice and critical thinking behaviors to the development of their preceptees Working with their preceptees to develop key competencies Providing effective feedback, clear communication, competency assessment, and performance evaluation techniques as part of everyday interactions with their preceptees Encouraging professional development of their preceptees, including the eventual transition from preceptorship to mentorship Practical tips and suggestions for the new preceptor Updated information related to preceptoring as a professional specialty, including portfolio-building and options for certification The latest research on adult learningPractical tips and suggestions for the new preceptor Updated information related to preceptoring as a professional specialty, including portfolio-building and options for certification The latest research on adult learning Table of Contents: Introduction Preceptor Roles, Competencies, and Responsibilities How Adults Learn Creating a Climate for Learning Validating Competency Providing Feedback Performance Evaluation Process Confronting Reality Shock Letting Go Bibliography Important Contacts Notes

Nurse preceptors help guide new nurses through orientation and help them adjust to their new role and work environment. The handbook, The Effective Nurse Preceptor Handbook: Your Guide to Success, is an integral tool to be used in your nurse preceptor training program. For use by preceptors during training and out in the field, this easy-to-tote resource will help preceptors improve their precepting skills and meet their precepting challenges. Handbooks are offered in packages of ten.

ASHP’s significantly updated 4th edition of our widely popular Preceptor’s Handbook for Pharmacists expands the content to include current challenges and issues impacting preceptors since fundamental changes have occurred that greatly affect modern practice including: The onboarding process Wellness and resiliency Misconduct and inappropriate behaviors Teaching across diverse student populations Ethics To be an effective preceptor, a pharmacist should exhibit clinical competency skills, possess excellent communication skills, and also demonstrate humanistic skills. This edition includes perspectives from across the country and from different or unique practice programs to bring a wide variety of expertise to this edition. The intent is for this book to be reflective on broad practice guidelines. The Preceptor's Handbook for Pharmacists, 4th edition is the updated and expanded authoritative resource for both new and experienced pharmacy preceptors to create a lifelong impact on young pharmacists.

Dedicated and competent nurse preceptors are vital to the success of health care organizations and to the retention of nurses in the profession. Yet clinical teaching and supervision is a skill that must be developed; a knowledgeable and experienced practitioner does not automatically become a successful nurse preceptor. This pithy reference guide for nurses in the preceptor role is brimming with information about how to successfully educate, protect, socialize, and evaluate nurses transitioning into a new environment. In an easy-access, bulleted format, this resource helps preceptors to establish clinical objectives, execute evaluation and feedback techniques, identify role responsibilities, develop positive communication skills, and develop effective teaching/learning strategies. The guide addresses the qualities of a good preceptor, communication and delegation skills, and the importance of evidence-based practice for the preceptor role. It discusses how to prepare new nurses for the reality shock of entering a new arena, and how to recognize and help the preceptee who is struggling. Nurse preceptors will gain insight into how to assist preceptees in organizing their clinical day and prioritizing their responsibilities. From suggestions in conflict resolution and bullying to aids in developing critical thinking skills to advice on completing relevant documentation, this guide helps new nurse preceptors to provide a well-orchestrated orientation that will ensure a positive experience for novice nurses and the subsequent delivery of quality, patient-centered care. Sample competency forms and clinical tools add to the bookís utility, as well. Key Features: Delivers vital information on all aspects of successful nurse preceptorship in a concise, easy-access format Includes evidence-based content throughout Provides guidance on identifying and developing successful nurse preceptors Addresses organization, prioritization, delegation, effective communication, conflict resolution, and the development of critical thinking skills Offers key information on competency assessment and evaluations A special ìPreceptorís Problem Solverî chapter addresses clinical issues unique to the nurse preceptorís role

For healthcare professionals, clinical education is foundational to the learning process. However, balancing safe patient care with supportive learning opportunities for students can be challenging for instructors and the complex social context of clinical learning environments makes intentional teaching approaches essential. Clinical instructors require advanced teaching knowledge and skills as learners are often carrying out interventions on real people in unpredictable environments. Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions is an indispensable guide for educators in the health professions. Interspersed with creative strategies and notes from the field by clinical teachers who offer practical suggestions, this volume equips healthcare educators with sound pedagogical theory. The authors focus on the importance of personal philosophies, resilience, and professional socialization while evaluating the current practices in clinical learning environments from technology to assessment and evaluation. This book provides instructors with the tools to influence both student success and the quality of care provided by future practitioners.

Precepting in Nursing: Developing an Effective Workforce is designed to facilitate the development of preceptor knowledge and skills using a hands-on approach that introduces the preceptor role and facilitates preceptor's adoption of a coaching role so that experiences are positive and productive for both the preceptor and the preceptee.

This is the first practical guide for nurses on how to incorporate the knowledge, skills, and tools of Strength-Based Nursing Care (SBC) into everyday practice. The text, based on a model developed by the McGill University Nursing Program, signifies a paradigm shift from a deficit-based model to one that focuses on individual, family, and community strengths as a cornerstone of effective nursing care. The book develops the theoretical foundations underlying SBC, promotes the acquisition of fundamental skills needed for SBC practice, and offers specific strategies, techniques, and tools for identifying strengths and harnessing them to facilitate healing and health. The testimony of 46 nurses demonstrates how SBC can be effectively used in multiple settings across the lifespan.

This quick-access guide for novice nurse preceptors walks through, step-by-step, how to successfully orient new nurses to the hospital environment. Preceptors are key to staff retention, job satisfaction, improved quality of care, patient safety and transition to practice. For the busy novice nurse preceptor who believes they do not have the time or preparation to be a nurse preceptor, Fast Facts for the Nurse Preceptor, Second Edition explains all the requisites for demonstrating, guiding, and mentoring new nurses through the process of delivering safe, evidence-based, patient-centered care. The second edition builds upon the foundation of the first to address more complicated challenges preceptors face. While reviewing the basics like shift organization, prioritization, communication, delegation, and conflict resolution, this orientation guide delineates the essential qualities of a competent preceptor and their primary responsibilities. It discusses the knowledge and skills a successful preceptor must impart to new nurses while acclimating to a variety of teaching and learning styles. Chapters discuss how to recognize the warning signs of a struggling preceptee, work through a preceptee’s “transition shock,” and help new nurses to develop critical thinking skills. Abundant case studies highlight common and challenging precepting situations. New to the Second Edition: Updated with FIVE completely new chapters: Selection, Education, and Retention of the Preceptor Preceptee Learning and Preceptor Teaching Styles The Challenging Student Precepting the Accelerated BSN and Advanced Practice Nurse (APRN) The Unsafe Preceptee and How to Avoid “Failure to Fail” Key Features: Helps preceptors to serve as excellent role models, mentors, and teachers for new nurses Offers quick-access, step-by-stop guidance with short paragraphs and bulleted information Uses case studies to highlight both common and challenging precepting scenarios Includes evidence-based content throughout Contains competency assessment and evaluation forms

The Preceptor Program Builder: Essential Tools for a Successful Preceptor Program Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, APN CS, RN-BC Solimar Figueroa, MHA, MSN, BSN, RN The Preceptor Program Builder provides professional development staff the keys to creating a successful preceptor program in the healthcare environment. In this essential package, you will find the core tools, best practices, processes, adaptable forms, and training materials for developing and evaluating preceptors, information for preparing preceptors for certification through portfolio-building, and a tested framework for preceptor programs. Use this resource to develop a preceptor program for any population, such as nurses or pharmacists. The book provides a core design for developing preceptors that can be applied to any program and discipline where preceptors orient or transition new employees, students, or persons transitioning into a new role or position. This work moves beyond previous editions' focus on single disciplines and invites all groups, disciplines, and professions to create a framework built on practical tools, definitions, principles, and concepts for training preceptors and building formal preceptorships. This resource will help you: Design preceptor training programs from the ground up Revitalize existing preceptor training with new curricula, including fully customizable PowerPoint(R) training and preceptor workbooks Assess the quality of preceptors and evaluate the training effectiveness Develop a preceptor certification Overall Program Builder objectives: Recognize the components of a preceptorship and the value added to a healthcare organization Prepare preceptors for the roles and responsibilities defined by an effective preceptor program Employ critical thinking skills and evidence-based practices within a preceptor program Apply effective feedback, competency assessment, and performance evaluation techniques Outline effective strategies for successful communication within the professional team Implement a preceptor program within a practice setting Build a preceptor program that promotes professional development and the eventual transition from preceptor to mentor What's new The Preceptor Program Builder is a professional quality, occupation-agnostic system for building a preceptor program in the healthcare industry. This resource represents a foundation for the future. Key changes compared to previous editions of the Nurse Preceptor Program Builder: Evidence-based guidance and a methodology based on research Discussion of the advancement of preceptoring as a specialty Presentation of the new "Married State Preceptorship Model" and the research related to its development Tips and tools for establishing preceptorships across any discipline, not just nursing How to develop a portfolio How to prepare for preceptor certification Nursing Contact Hours: HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This educational activity for 3.6 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro. Nursing contact hours for this activity are valid from April 1, 2014 - April 1, 2016. For further information on how to obtain your contact hours, please see the Instructional Guide on the download page after purchasing the book.