Transcript VT Poster Presentation February 2011

A Preceptorship Handbook as a Useful Reference in Mentoring BSN Senior Students
Milena Staykova, EdD
Christine Huson, MSN
Deidra Pennington, MSN
Jefferson College of Health Science, Department of Nursing
Background
Stakeholders of Nursing Education:
Leadership of Health Care
Nursing Student
Academic Nurse Educators
Preceptors
Public
Problem
Nurse preceptor preparation to mentor senior
BSN students
Nurse preceptor educational needs
Nurse preceptor satisfaction
Research Questions
RQ1: What information should be included in
a handbook to help preceptors mentor
undergraduate senior nursing students?
Results
A 100% of the participants agree that the preceptorship handbook
was a very useful reference in mentoring students
The preceptors recommendations:
1. Preceptor Role, Preceptor and preceptee responsibilities
2. Teaching how to set priorities and organize workload
3. Teaching delegation
4. Supervising preceptees
5. Amount and types of nursing experience dedicated to
preceptorship
6. Conflict resolution, problem-solving strategies
As a preferred method of orientation to the role of preceptor, the
preceptors selected the combination of self- and educatorprovided instructions that a longer then 10 minutes
% Agreement
RQ2: Is a preceptorship handbook a useful
reference in mentoring JCHS BSN
undergraduate senior nursing students?
100
90
80
70
Method and Design
%
60
Orientation to preceptorship based on a
preceptorship handbook
92 hours practicum
Frequent faculty follow up
50
40
30
20
10
0
0
Mixed Method
Validated Questionnaire with 50 items
Quantitative part: 3-point Likert-type scale
Qualitative part: Comment boxes
Data Collection and Analyzes
Data was collected and entered in an Excel
spreadsheet.
Mean and standard deviation were calculated.
Chi-square calculations with p-value of 0.05
were significant findings and led to rejection of
the null hypotheses.
Contact Information
Milena P. Staykova
[email protected]
(540) 525-9310
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Question/Percentile Response
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Dr. JoAnn Grif Alspach,
RN EdD FAAN for the permission to use instrument.
This research was made possible with the generous
support of JCHS grant