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Fixing the Grad Nurse Turnover Problem by Equipping Your Preceptors

Healthy Workforce Institute

If you have a nurse turnover problem, chances are you have a preceptor problem. If you struggle to retain your new nurses, it’s time to look closely at your preceptors. The Role of Preceptors in Nurse Turnover When working with a group of preceptors, we asked how many had been taught how to be preceptors.

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Advance Your Nursing Career: Creating a Nursing E-Portfolio is Easier Than You Think

Daily Nurse

As registered nurses, we put a lot of time and effort into obtaining and organizing documents we must maintain. Where are you documenting that? We should all record our many accomplishments, such as presentations, publications, preceptor hours, acts of service, etc. Your Gmail™ account also gives you access to Google Drive ™.

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The Nurse as an Agent of Change

Daily Nurse

Her revolutionary biostatistical practices are credited with saving the lives of numerous soldiers as she uncovered and documented preventable causes of death that were all too common in hospitals during the Crimean War. Was Florence Nightingale a change agent? Without a doubt.

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Guide to precepting new grads

The Nurse Break

Preceptors can make or break a young nurse’s experience. My first preceptor was attentive, kind, patient and helped guide me into the world of nursing. Even simple things like noticing good hand hygiene, thorough documentation, or a good bedside manner are positives to feedback on.

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COVID-19 Class of 2020: My Hospital Residency’s Twists and Turns

Nurse.com

On every new rotation we started over with new preceptors with no new details about COVID-19, just new requirements for what must be documented and when since each unit was different. When my preceptor got COVID-19, I was left alone. On my third rotation, my new preceptor began teaching me the specifics of my job specialty.

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Socialized to care: Nursing student experiences with faculty, preceptors, and patients

Nursing Inquiry

The importance of faculty, preceptors, and patients in the socialization of nursing students has been documented extensively in the literature. Next, preceptors can be barriers or facilitators of learning by demonstrating how to act like nurses and providing insight about how and why nurses may act the way that they do.

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Can’t We Nurses All Get Along?

Minority Nurse

A new grad nurse tells the story of a preceptor who seems determined to sabotage her orientation period, assuredly setting her up for failure and job loss. These statements are sadly true, and the problem is too well documented to ignore.