Currently, considerable focus is directed at improving clinical experiences for nursing students, with emphasis placed on adequate support and supervision for the purpose of creating competent and safe beginning practitioners. Preceptors play a vital role in supporting, teaching, supervising and assessing students in clinical settings as they transition to the graduate nurse role. Intrinsic to ...

AIM The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between preceptor characteristics (emotional intelligence, personality and cognitive intelligence) and new graduate nurse socialization outcomes regarding turnover intent, job satisfaction, role conflict and ambiguity during a preceptorship programme. To date, no studies have explored these relationships. DESIGN A cross-sectional ...

A multidisciplinary team organised an intravenous infusion training day for nurses on the preceptorship programme at Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital. Theoretical and practical sessions were set up to provide instruction and supervision of safe practice principles for an activity that is widely acknowledged as being a source of risk. The results of the training day showed that m...

Student nurses appear to experience significantly more stress during their academic preparation than they do during the first year of employment. Preceptorship is among the most stressful of student experiences. It is within the context of a challenging and at times daunting work environment that two complete strangers (preceptor and student) strive to accommodate one another within a professio...

BACKGROUND Preparing new graduate nurses (NGNs) to achieve standards of nursing competence is challenging; therefore, this study developed and evaluated the effects of a 10-minute preceptor (10MP) model for assisting NGNs in their professional development and increasing their retention in hospitals. METHOD A repeated-measures design study, with an intervention and a two-group comparison, was ...

Aim To explore aspects that are important for the integration of preceptorship and processes recruitment retention nurses. Background The shortage nurses is a global concern has major impact on health care systems around world. However, earlier research not considered whether nursing students can be an integral part Method A descriptive design with qualitative approach was used. Semi-structured...