Preceptors have the power and opportunity to inspire nurses and other healthcare providers to achieve greatness. Effective precepting programs depend on two critical groups: those who organize and manage the programs and those who support, teach, and coach. Beth Ulrich―nationally recognized for her research in work environments and transitional experiences of new graduate nurses―and her team of expert contributing authors provide the knowledge, tools, skills, and wisdom both groups need for success.\nWritten for staff nurses and other care providers, their managers, and educators, this third edition of Mastering Precepting teaches preceptors both the science and art of precepting and empowers them to seek the support they need to be effective. For managers, it emphasizes the importance of providing nurse preceptors with positive and supportive experiences. For educators, it provides the information and knowledge required to develop and improve preceptor programs. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: The Preceptor Role 
Chapter 2: Learning: The Foundation of Precepting 
Chapter 3: Core Precepting Concepts 
Chapter 4: Precepting Strategies 
Chapter 5: Developing a Professional Identity 
Chapter 6: Having a Plan: Developing and Using Goals, Objectives, and Outcomes 
Chapter 7: Communication 
Chapter 8: Coaching 
Chapter 9: Effectively Using Instructional Technologies 
Chapter 10: Precepting Specific Learner Populations 
Chapter 11: Precepting Advanced Practice Registered Nurses 
Chapter 12: Assessing and Addressing Preceptee Behavior and Motivation 
Chapter 13: Pragmatics of Precepting 
Chapter 14: Self-Care for Preceptors 
Chapter 15: The NPD Practitioner: Responsibility for Preceptor Programs 
Chapter 16: For Managers: Selecting, Supporting, and Sustaining Preceptors 
Chapter 17: Preceptor Development

Mastering Precepting, Third Edition

Medical Books

Beth Ulrich

Nursing

Sigma Theta Tau International

Nursing Knowledge International

Mastering Precepting

Indianapolis, IN : Sigma Theta Tau International

Mastering Precepting: A Nurse’s Handbook for Success

One of the biggest challenges we face in healthcare is how to educate and train healthcare professionals without endangering patients--especially when we are teaching the management of high-stakes situations such as codes, trauma care, chest pain, or anaphylactic shock, in which any delay in treatment threatens the outcome. Often, new healthcare practitioners enter their profession without ever having seen--much less gotten experience with--many high-risk/low-volume patient conditions. The use of simulation is growing exponentially in academic and service settings. Simulation can enable students, new graduates, and experienced clinicians to develop clinical competence and confidence in caring for patients in a learning environment that is cognitively and emotionally realistic and safe for the learner--and does not compromise patient safety or outcomes. Simulation can be applied to many clinical situations--far more than a learner can be exposed to in a live clinical environment. Simulation activities need not be bound by one profession, time, or place. Simulation can be expanded to include the systems dynamics of care, interprofessional teamwork, and considerations for hospital technology and equipment at any point in the healthcare continuum. In a clinical setting, simulation can be used to onboard new graduates and experienced staff. Simulation also offers the ability to objectively assess the performance of healthcare professionals based on a well-defined standard of practice. Many organizations carefully assess the competency and performance of new staff, but--other than perhaps yearly skills fairs--do little to ensure that existing staff continue to meet standards of practice and follow evidence-based and best practice processes and protocols. Renewing nursing or medical licenses generally requires only paying a fee and completing continuing education programs--not demonstrating continued competence. Simulation can be developed for continued development of staff and educators. Although we know much more about healthcare education today than we did 20 years ago, much has yet to be discovered. Research is changing healthcare practice on an almost daily basis. Simulation can be used to improve an organization's ability to ensure that all its clinicians maintain competence. Knowing is not doing. Simulation can demonstrate the successful application of knowledge. There is also growing evidence that simulation is effective in developing, assessing, and improving the performance of healthcare teams.

Mastering Simulation, Second Edition: A Handbook for Sucess

Janice Palaganas

Beth Mancini

Sigma

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