Becoming a Successful Nurse Preceptor: A Guide to Orienting New Nurses

As a novice nurse preceptor, you play a vital role in ensuring the smooth transition of new nurses to the hospital environment. In this fast-paced healthcare setting, it’s essential to have a comprehensive guide that walks you through the process of orienting new nurses, step-by-step. Fast Facts for the Nurse Preceptor, Second Edition is the ultimate resource you need to excel in your role.

Why Are Nurse Preceptors Crucial to Staff Retention and Patient Safety?

Nurse preceptors are key to staff retention, job satisfaction, improved quality of care, patient safety, and successful transition to practice. They serve as role models, mentors, and teachers, helping new nurses develop the necessary skills and confidence to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care.

What You’ll Learn from This Orientation Guide

This concise guide covers the fundamentals of preceptorship, including:

• Shift organization and prioritization
• Effective communication and delegation
• Conflict resolution and critical thinking skills
• Recognizing warning signs of a struggling preceptee and helping them overcome transition shock
• Adapting to diverse teaching and learning styles
• Imparting essential knowledge and skills to new nurses

New to the Second Edition: Five New Chapters Addressing Challenging Precepting Situations

The updated edition includes five new chapters that tackle complex challenges preceptors face, such as:

• Selection, education, and retention of the preceptor
• Preceptee learning and preceptor teaching styles
• The challenging student
• Precepting the accelerated BSN and advanced practice nurse (APRN)
• The unsafe preceptee and how to avoid failure to fail

Key Features That Make This Guide an Indispensable Resource

This orientation guide offers:

• Quick-access, step-by-step guidance with concise paragraphs and bulleted information
• Abundant case studies highlighting common and challenging precepting scenarios
• Evidence-based content throughout
• Competency assessment and evaluation forms to ensure new nurses meet the required standards