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The Top 3 Podcast Episodes and Blog Posts You Loved in 2024

Healthy Workforce Institute

2024 has been a year of transformation and growth, and at the heart of it all has been our shared commitment to creating a respectful and healthy work culture. Creating a supportive environment and equipping preceptors with the skills to protect and guide new nurses are critical steps to their success.

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Maryland’s Healthcare Preceptor Tax Credit: A Call to Action

American Nurse

Introduction In 2016, Maryland became one of the first states to implement a Healthcare Preceptor Tax Credit. The aim of this legislation was to help alleviate healthcare workforce shortages in the State, and it provided a tax incentive to nurse practitioner student preceptors. Rasheed et al, 2020).

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Desperate nursing students turn to fixers for their clinical training

Health Leaders | Nursing

Unlike doctors, they don't have access to federal funding to support that training, and their schools often leave them to find their own clinical preceptors. Like medical doctors, they need to complete clinical rotations to graduate. The stakes are high. And if they can't get the hours, their graduation will be delayed.

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Celebrate Nursing Professional Development Week: September 14-20, 2024

American Nurse

NPD Week is September 14-20, 2024, this year. Professional development (PD) associates are also valuable NPD team members as these individuals “contribute to the overall functioning of a continuing education/professional development department in a substantive, measurable way” (Association for Nursing Professional Development, 2017, p.2).

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ANA-Ohio President’s Message: Looking Forward to 2024

American Nurse

As we look forward to the start of 2024, Ohio nursing legacy continues through ANA-Ohio’s mission and the new possibilities the association is creating. Maybe it was your preceptor or nursing manager that encourage you during the challenging moments you faced in your career. Those that have inspired you.

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Nursing Needs a Reality Check: Mentorship, Onboarding, and Beyond

Health Leaders | Nursing

Heuston recommended implementing preceptors and training to support new nurses, while also focusing on making sure that the tenured nurses doing the training are recognized. Within the program, nurses can move up a level and get extra compensation added to their base salary for preceptoring and mentoring.

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Mentorship: A strategy for nursing retention

American Nurse

Define the differences between mentorship and preceptor programs, and the benefits of implementing a mentorship program. For new graduate nurses in particular, the preceptor relationship typically terminates around the same time reality shock sets in, leaving the novice nurse without a support system when they most need it. March 2024.