Nurse Preceptorship Paper
A Senior Internship:
Facilitating the Transition to
Nursing Practice
Bridget Card
St. Joseph’s College of Nursing
This paper explores published articles that report on results from research conducted about ways to assist the new graduate nurse with transition-into practice issues. Preparing student nurses for the role transition from student to nurse who can responsibly provide high-quality and safe patient care is a difficult job. Nursing students usually don’t have the opportunity to take a full patient assignment before transitioning into practice; therefore, the job of transferring clinical knowledge to student nurses is often the responsibility of a nurse preceptor. A new graduate preceptorship is a one-to-one …show more content…
Patients—and us! Effective nurse preceptorships provide the flexibility for the close, trusting relationships needed to develop the new graduate nurse to his or her fullest potential. Students benefit by having a complete nursing experience over several weeks, allowing them to manage a full patient care load, refine their clinical skills, gain experience in organizing their care and setting priortiteis, and, overall, have many hours to use the nursing process to plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care and patient outcomes. Nursing internship programs build a novice nurse’s confidence in their ability to provide safe and effective patient care. Having a mentor and team of other individuals to support you during this learning curve in your career will boost your confidence as a practicing nurse. Graduate nurses who participate in internship programs tend to have an easier transition to becoming a professional than students who did not participate in internship programs. Meeting with experienced nurse leaders will help you learn how to apply the theoretical nursing principals you learned in nursing school to real-world situations. Evidence-based practice is encouraged in internship programs and your preceptor can help you uncover how research is disseminated into nursing practice. You have heard a lot about holistic nursing care and your mentor will help you develop the skills you need to have to provide holistic nursing …show more content…
Hallmarks of the professional nursing practice environment. Available at http://www.aacon.nche.edu/publications/positions/hallmarks.htm. Accesses December 21, 2010.
Budgen C., Gamroth L. An overview of practice ducation models. Nurse Educ Today. 2008;28(3):273-283.
Carloson E, Pilhammar E, Wann-Hansson C. Time to precept: supportive a limiting conditions for precepting nurses. J Adv Nurs. 2010;66(2):432-441.
Earle-Foley V, Kee C, Minick P, Harvey S, Jennings B. Preceptoship: using an ethical lens to reflect on the unsafe student. J Prof Nus. 2012;28(1):27-33.
Fulvio B, Stichler J, Gallo A. Teaching Future Nurses in the Clinical Setting: The Clinical Nurses’ Perspective. 2015;45(1):21-27.
Haleem D, Manetti W, Evanina K, Gallagher R. A Senior Internship; Facilitating the Transition to Nursing Practice. 2011;36(36):208-213.
Warren AL, Denham SA. Relationships between formalized preceptor orientation and student outcomes. Teach Learn Nurs. 2010;5(1):4-11. An overview of practice ducation models. Nurse Educ Today.
Facilitating the Transition to
Nursing Practice
Bridget Card
St. Joseph’s College of Nursing
This paper explores published articles that report on results from research conducted about ways to assist the new graduate nurse with transition-into practice issues. Preparing student nurses for the role transition from student to nurse who can responsibly provide high-quality and safe patient care is a difficult job. Nursing students usually don’t have the opportunity to take a full patient assignment before transitioning into practice; therefore, the job of transferring clinical knowledge to student nurses is often the responsibility of a nurse preceptor. A new graduate preceptorship is a one-to-one …show more content…
Patients—and us! Effective nurse preceptorships provide the flexibility for the close, trusting relationships needed to develop the new graduate nurse to his or her fullest potential. Students benefit by having a complete nursing experience over several weeks, allowing them to manage a full patient care load, refine their clinical skills, gain experience in organizing their care and setting priortiteis, and, overall, have many hours to use the nursing process to plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care and patient outcomes. Nursing internship programs build a novice nurse’s confidence in their ability to provide safe and effective patient care. Having a mentor and team of other individuals to support you during this learning curve in your career will boost your confidence as a practicing nurse. Graduate nurses who participate in internship programs tend to have an easier transition to becoming a professional than students who did not participate in internship programs. Meeting with experienced nurse leaders will help you learn how to apply the theoretical nursing principals you learned in nursing school to real-world situations. Evidence-based practice is encouraged in internship programs and your preceptor can help you uncover how research is disseminated into nursing practice. You have heard a lot about holistic nursing care and your mentor will help you develop the skills you need to have to provide holistic nursing …show more content…
Hallmarks of the professional nursing practice environment. Available at http://www.aacon.nche.edu/publications/positions/hallmarks.htm. Accesses December 21, 2010.
Budgen C., Gamroth L. An overview of practice ducation models. Nurse Educ Today. 2008;28(3):273-283.
Carloson E, Pilhammar E, Wann-Hansson C. Time to precept: supportive a limiting conditions for precepting nurses. J Adv Nurs. 2010;66(2):432-441.
Earle-Foley V, Kee C, Minick P, Harvey S, Jennings B. Preceptoship: using an ethical lens to reflect on the unsafe student. J Prof Nus. 2012;28(1):27-33.
Fulvio B, Stichler J, Gallo A. Teaching Future Nurses in the Clinical Setting: The Clinical Nurses’ Perspective. 2015;45(1):21-27.
Haleem D, Manetti W, Evanina K, Gallagher R. A Senior Internship; Facilitating the Transition to Nursing Practice. 2011;36(36):208-213.
Warren AL, Denham SA. Relationships between formalized preceptor orientation and student outcomes. Teach Learn Nurs. 2010;5(1):4-11. An overview of practice ducation models. Nurse Educ Today.