Mastering Precepting, Third Edition

“This book is brilliant, relevant, and a must-have resource for all preceptors and those supporting the lifelong learning journey of preceptors. This edition provides updated strategies for all preceptors and the ability to develop meaningful action plans to enhance the learning journeys.”

–Sylvain Trepanier

DNP, RN, CENP, FAONL, FAAN

SVP, Chief Nursing Officer

Providence, Renton, Washington

“In today’s turbulent healthcare environment, preceptors play a crucial role in the successful professional transition of nurses. The nurse tenure in acute care settings has dropped over the past years, and many of today’s preceptors are new to their roles. Precepting is both an art and a science. This new edition of Mastering Precepting provides an evidence-based road map for preceptor development and strategies to avoid preceptor burnout.”

–Rose O. Sherman

EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

Professor Emeritus

Florida Atlantic University

Editor-in-Chief, Nurse Leader

“Once we expected faculty to monitor students, for new graduates to ‘figure it out,’ and for a nurse with any experience to transition anywhere needed. Then, as we focused on safety and quality, we realized all those individuals needed support of some kind to acquire the new expected competencies of the role in that setting. Once again, that is what Dr. Ulrich and her colleagues have done in the third edition of Mastering Precepting, with just the right balance of theory and practicality to make this a most useful book.”

–Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAONL, FAAN

Professor and Dean Emerita, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Co-Founder and Vice President, the Nurses Legacy Institute

Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing

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 and her team of expert contributing authors provide the knowledge, tools, skills, and wisdom both groups need for success.

Written for staff nurses and other care providers, 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 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

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Beth Tamplet Ulrich, EdD, RN, FACHE, FAONL, FAAN, is a Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing in Galveston in the DNP Program, and Editor-in-Chief of the Nephrology Nursing Journal. She is a nationally recognized thought leader who is known for her research studying nursing work environments and the experiences of new graduate nurses as they transition from nursing school into the workforce.