Preceptor Roles and Responsibilities
Who is the person who serves in a formal role with professional boundaries to orient a student or new nurse to the unit?
Who is the preceptor?
In adult learning, is the focus on the teacher's knowledge or incorporation of the learner's experiences?
What is learner's experience?
Speaking out loud while completing activities is an example of this teaching method.
What is "Think Out Loud"?
When a preceptor provides frequent feedback to the preceptee to prevent them from "forming" bad habits. This evaluation also allows the preceptee to adjust their practice during the learning experience.
What is formative evaluation?
Being "on their game", "giving back", and intrinsic reward are examples of this for preceptors.
What are benefits of precepting?
What is the document that defines the job responsibilities for a given role in the hospital?
What is a job description?
Which of Carper's Patterns of Knowing defines morality?
What is ethics?
Briefing a student before entering the labor and delivery room is an example of teaching technique.
What is readying?
When negative feedback or corrective feedback needs to be provided to an orientee, it is best it occurs in this fashion.
What is in private?
Praise in public, reprimand in private.
This causes a reduction in a nurse's energy and may be manifested as emotional exhaustion, lack of motivation, and may lead to reduced work efficiency.
What is burnout?
Your preceptee asks you where they can find the Policy and Procedure manual.
What is the Employee Hub on the Intranet?
One way to help the student/orientee remain engaged and get the most from their preceptee experience, is to review their goals. Goals should be SMART...which is an acronym for ________.
What are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely?
When showing a preceptee a procedure, followed by having them perform the procedure, and then having them instruct the preceptor on how to perform the procedure is also known as this six word phrase.
What is "see one, do one, teach one".
A student nurse does not show up as scheduled for two shifts and does not contact the preceptor. You have tried to contact them directly without any response. Your next course of action would be...
What is notify the faculty and manager/educator of the NICU?
It is believed this matriarch of nursing once said "Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses. We must be learning all of our lives."
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This quality encompasses the ability to understand one's own feelings and to assess and react to the feelings of others. Attributes include self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.
What is emotional intelligence?
What is another name for Adult Learning Theory?
Deliberately providing time for the learner to think about the "why" of activity instead of just going through the motions of "doing" a task is an example of this teaching method.
What is reflection?
Active listening, silence, open body language, good eye contact are important in effective ________________.
What is communication?
An ability to adapt positively in the face of stress or adversity.
What is resilience?
This nurse developed five stages of nurse adaptation to clinical practice based on the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition.
Who is Patricia Benner?
This published framework provided a means to categorize cognitive educational goals and included the six categories of Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.
What is Bloom's taxonomy?
This is an invaluable tool in teaching. This is an invaluable tool in teaching.
What is repetition?
At the conclusion of the preceptorship, this type of evaluation is provided to summarize the experience.
What is summative evaluation?
This document states that nurses owe "the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity...and continue personal and professional growth".
What is the American Nurses' Association's Code of Ethics for Nurses?