Preceptors’ Perceptions of Their Role in a Pediatric Acute Care Setting

Chang, Ann; Douglas, Margaret; Breen-Reid, Karen; Gueorguieva, Vera; Fleming‐Carroll, Bonnie

doi:10.3928/00220124-20130315-81

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“…The success of the preceptorship program depends very much on the commitment of preceptors to their role [ 15 ]. In this study, the preceptors rated their commitment to the preceptor role as moderate, which is consistent with previous international research [ 15 , 19 , 21 , 22 , 24 ]. These findings indicate the need for a better understanding of the preceptors’ viewpoints, experience, and perceived barriers and facilitators to help meet their needs and enhance their commitment to the role.…”

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“…The scores for these items were reversed when analyzing the responses. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire have been established internationally [ 21 , 22 ]. In the original study, Cronbach’s Alpha coefficients for the three scales of the PPBR, the PPS, and the CPR were reported as 0.91, 0.86, and 0.87, respectively [ 19 ].…”

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Nurse preceptors’ perceptions of benefits, rewards, support, and commitment to the preceptor role in a new preceptorship program

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Background Nurse preceptorship is a new concept emerging in the Iranian health care system. The purpose of this research was to assess preceptor nurses’ perceived benefits, rewards, support, and commitment to the role in a new nurse preceptorship program in Iran and to examine the relationships between these concepts. Methods A descriptive correlational study was employed, and using total population sampling method, 45 preceptor nurses were recruited from a tertiary referral teaching hospital in Iran. Data were collected using the Preceptor’s Perception of Benefits and Rewards Scale, the Preceptor’s Perception of Support Scale, and the Commitment to the Preceptor Role Scale. Descriptive statistics and correlational analysis were used to analyse data. Results Preceptors’ commitment to their role was positively and moderately associated with their perceived benefits and rewards (r = 0.503, p = 0.001) and perceived support (r = 0.430, p = 0.003). None of the examined demographic and practice variables showed statistically significant association with commitment to the preceptor role. Conclusions Commitment to the preceptor role was associated with benefits, rewards and support that preceptor nurses perceive in relation to their role. To optimise the effectiveness of nurse preceptorship programs, benefits, rewards, recognition, and support should be integral to planning of these programs.

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Nurse preceptors’ perceptions of benefits, rewards, support, and commitment to the preceptor role in a new preceptorship program

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“…Participants felt proud and honored of being chosen as a preceptor. This feeling is an experience which indicates participants' commitment to preceptorship and commitment to one's own continual growth (Chang et al, 2013;Watson et al, 2012). Moreover, they thought of their selection as endorsement of their skills and this had reinforced their selfconfidence.…”

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confidence: 93%

Attributes of Iranian new nurse preceptors: A phenomenological study

Borimnejad

Valizadeh

Rahmani

et al. 2018

Nurse Education in Practice

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Preceptors should possess attributes which help them in successfully performing the demanding and challenging role in the preceptorship. This research utilises a qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological approach to explore the attributes of new nurse preceptors. Six preceptors of a teaching hospital in Northwest of Iran who were selected by means of purposive sampling. Data were collected during eight months from July 2014 to March 2015 through in-depth semi-structured personal interviews. Interviews were recorded and transcribed and then were analyzed with the interpretive approach using the Diekelmann's seven-stage method in the MAXQDA10 software environment. Findings included two main themes "feeling proud and honored" and "professionalism" with subthemes including empathy, being nonjudgmental, patience, and spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice was a unique attribute revealed in this research. Preceptors possessed several important attributes which are usually stressed in the literature as selection criteria for preceptors. These attributes could be further drawn upon when selecting new preceptors. Preceptors are role models. Existence of the spirit of self-sacrifice among preceptors could contribute to transferring of such spirit to new nurses and future preceptors as well as to preceptors' patience with challenges of their role. Effective preceptorship needs preceptors who possess specific professional and personal attributes. These attributes could be drawn upon more objectively in the process of selection, preparation and evaluation of preceptors by clinical and educational nursing managers.

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“…Our current understanding of the experience of precepting has developed from several studies of experienced nurses from various clinical environments, predominantly chronic and low acuity settings. Our understandings of preceptors from high acuity environments is limited to a single study within a paediatric critical care environment (Chang et al 2013). In this study, age and experience were identified as factors that lead to preceptors reporting different rewards.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Rewards included: preceptor satisfaction; selfdevelopment and promotion; helping students apply knowledge to practice; and preparation for leadership positions (Liu et al 2010, Hyrkas & Shoemaker 2007. Experienced nurses with educational preparation have reported both a greater number of rewards and higher commitment scores to the preceptor role compared to nurses without educational preparation (DeWolfe et al 2010, Chang et al 2013. Furthermore, diminished commitment to precepting undergraduate students has been shown to result from perceived lack of reward M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 4 (Kalischuk et al 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Becoming a nurse preceptor, the challenges and rewards of novice registered nurses in high acuity hospital environments

Smith

Sweet

2019

Nurse Education in Practice

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Preceptors’ Perceptions of Their Role in a Pediatric Acute Care Setting

Abstract: Preceptors perceived sufficient benefits and rewards to remain committed to the role and identified workload as a significant challenge. Further research is needed to explore whether additional supports or recognition tailored to level of experience and age may be beneficial.

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Nurse preceptors’ perceptions of benefits, rewards, support, and commitment to the preceptor role in a new preceptorship program

Nurse preceptors’ perceptions of benefits, rewards, support, and commitment to the preceptor role in a new preceptorship program

Attributes of Iranian new nurse preceptors: A phenomenological study

Becoming a nurse preceptor, the challenges and rewards of novice registered nurses in high acuity hospital environments

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