cover image - The Nurse Preceptor Toolkit, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780443107368
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 09-13-2024
Page Count: 318
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $67.99

The Nurse Preceptor Toolkit, 1st Edition

by Beth Heuer, DNP, APRN-CNP, CPNP-PC, PMHS, FAANP and Cynthia A. Danford, PhD, CRNP, PPCNP-BC, CPNP-PC, FAAN

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cover image - The Nurse Preceptor Toolkit, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780443107368
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 09-13-2024
Page Count: 318
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $67.99
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Equip faculty and clinicians to develop the skills necessary for precepting RN and APRN students and new orientees! The Nurse Preceptor Toolkit is written by and for RN and APRN clinicians and faculty members from a variety of levels, specialties, and settings. Using real-life examples and practical tips, this comprehensive resource answers the questions preceptors often ask when interacting with students of all levels, as well as new orientees. Within its pages, your faculty and preceptors will find everything they need to develop and solidify the clinical teaching skills essential to becoming effective preceptors.
    • This completely new book serves as a comprehensive resource for precepting both RN and APRN students and new orientees.
    • Coverage addresses questions preceptors have asked when interacting with students of all levels, as well as with new orientees.
    • Content is written by and for RN and APRN clinicians and faculty members from a variety of levels, specialties, and settings.
    • Real-life examples and practical tips guide the development and solidification of the clinical teaching skills needed to become an effective preceptor.
    • Coverage of essential precepting topics includes effective communication, flexibility, time management skills, providing feedback and support, an understanding of different adult learning styles, and the ability to confidently evaluate student knowledge and competencies.
    • Chapter objectives serve as “advance organizers” to help prepare budding clinical preceptors for the content that follows.
    • Exemplars model excellence in clinical precepting through contributor-authored stories of successful faculty-preceptor-learner partnerships related to the content of each chapter.
    • Boxes highlight tips from successful preceptors.
    • Appendices provide ready-to-use tools to enhance the preceptor-learner experience.
  • PART I Setting the Stage
    1 Introduction to Precepting
    PART II Defining the Preceptor
    2 Starting With the Basics
    3 Why Precept?
    4 Coaching and Mentoring
    PART III Framing the Precepting Experience
    5 Understanding the Learner and the Learning Process
    6 Fostering Effective Preceptor-Learner Communication
    7 The Learning Curve: A Parallel Venture for Preceptors and Learners
    PART IV Clinical Judgment Skills and Precepting Models
    8 Special Precepting Tools for Clinical Judgment
    PART V Tools for Precepting
    9 Expectations: Preceptors, Faculty, and Academic Programs
    10 Providing a Well-Rounded Clinical Experience
    11 Special Considerations When Precepting Nurse Practitioner Students
    12 Precepting the Undergraduate and Graduate-Entry Nursing Student
    13 Onboarding the New Nurse
    14 Orienting the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Student
    15 Guiding the Nurse Practitioner Student Experience
    16 Professional Development for the Preceptor and the Orientee
    17 Managing Challenging Behaviors With Learners in Clinical Environments
    18 Self-Care for the Busy Preceptor
    19 Managing Barriers in the APRN Clinical Site
    20 Documentation
    21 Evaluation
    22 Moving Into Leadership Roles Beyond Practice
    23 Precepting in Global Health Experiences
    24 Precepting in Specialty Settings
    25 Bringing Closure to the Precepting Experience
    Appendix A: Mentoring Contract Example (Chapter 4)
    Appendix B: Checklist for Beginning the Precepting Experience
    Appendix C: Competency Sign-off Checklist for Nurse Orientees
    Appendix D: Developing a Philosophy of Clinical Education Statement for APRN Students (Chapter 3)
    Appendix E: Site-Specific APRN Clinical Experience Checklist (Chapters 10 and 15)
    Appendix F: APRN Student Welcome Poster for Clinical Site (Chapter 14)
    Appendix G: How to Be an Amazing APRN Student in Any Clinical Site (Chapter 15)
    Appendix H: Examples of Reflective Journaling (Chapter 8)
    Appendix I: Example of Journaling Rubric (Chapter 8)
    Appendix J: One-Minute Preceptor Exemplars (Chapter 8)
    Appendix K: Sample Letter From Preceptor to Faculty Regarding Nurse Practitioner Student Concerns (Chapter 17)
    Appendix L: Sample Learning Plan Addressing APRN Student Concerns
    Appendix M: Student Learning Profile
    Appendix N: Examples of Nurse Practitioner Student Learning Needs and Clinical Objectives (Chapter 9)
    Appendix O: NONPF/AANP Preceptor Expectation Checklist: Faculty Expectations of Preceptors (Chapter 9)
    Appendix P: NONPF/AANP Preceptor Expectation Checklist: Preceptor Expectations of Faculty (Chapter 9)
    Appendix Q: Preceptor Agreement Form Template: Example
    Appendix R: Preceptors’ Orientation Competence Instrument (POCI)
    Appendix S: Orientation Topics for School Nurses
    Appendix T: APRN Student Competency Evaluation Using the PRIME Model
    Appendix U: Human Trafficking Resources, Referrals, and Responses to Guide Patient Care (Chapter 24)
    Appendix V: Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Question Development Tool
    Index
  • Beth Heuer, DNP, APRN-CNP, CPNP-PC, PMHS, FAANP, Clinical Professor Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Cynthia A. Danford, PhD, CRNP, PPCNP-BC, CPNP-PC, FAAN, Nurse Scientist II, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio; Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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