Putting the (R) Ural in Preceptorship

Putting the (R) Ural in Preceptorship

Rural nursing is recognized as a unique health care domain. Within that context, the preceptorship experience is purported to be an important approach to preparing safe and competent rural practitioners. Preceptorship is the one-to-one pairing of a nursing student with a professional nurse who assumes the mandate of teacher and role model in a designated clinical/contextual setting, in this cas...

Preceptorship in Nursing Education

Education is challenged nowadays with the important for survival goal of facilitating change and learning. New meanings are now attributed to education such as learning how to learn rather than acquiring new knowledge (Rogers, 1983). In a constantly changing situation, where reliance on static knowledge does not make sense anymore, it is important to help students to develop autonomous ways of ...

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Preceptorship and Mentorship

Thirty years ago, there would not have been a special issue on preceptorship and mentorship. Given the rise and consequent research interest in these two practices in nursing, numerous scholarly papers are being published. This particular special edition will be highly relevant to those who participate in preceptorship or mentorship programs from those who coordinate them to the students or gra...

The Challenge of Evaluation in Rural Preceptorship

The purpose of this article is to report preceptor perceptions of the process of evaluating nursing students in a rural setting. A grounded theory methodology was used to carry out this study to ascertain what is actually going on in the rural preceptorship experience. Twenty-six preceptors from rural areas in two western Canadian provinces participated in the study. These preceptors worked wit...