Preceptorship Role In Nursing Study
This study sought to determine the implementation of preceptorship roles of professional nurses towards the RNSE nurses and the development of professional autonomy among RNSE nurses. This chapter discusses the results of the data gathered including the analysis and interpretation.
Extent of Implementation of Preceptorship Roles of Professional Nurses
Teacher. In the professional nurses’ performance of their preceptorship role of teacher, an average mean score of 2.90 was obtained based on the perception of the RNSE nurses. This equates to the teacher role being moderately implemented. Thus, the professional nurses performed their teaching roles to an acceptable level.
Among the specific teacher roles, the preceptors fully guided the RNSE …show more content…
This may imply that evidence-based practice is still being relegated to the background in favor of what has always been the routine in nursing practice. The nurse preceptor may also lack enthusiasm, lack knowledge or may not have the time due to heavy workload to focus on evidence-based practice or to check out search engines like Ebscohost, CINAHL, ERIC, or PubMed for peer-reviewed journals that discuss trends in evidence-based practice. In their preceptor role as teachers, suggesting relevant resources for evidence-based practice proved to be a challenge. This finding correlates with results based on a national survey done in the US of 1,000 registered nurses wherein these nurses reported not being able to implement evidenced-based practices due to organizational policies, lack of information and education (Melnyk, 2012). Motamed-Jahromi, Jalali, Eshghi, Zaher & Dehghani (2015) mentioned that inadequate resources, increased workload, and the absence of authority could be deterrents in the application of evidence-based practice in clinical area. In the locale, patient load in an eight-hour shift takes away from the time that they could spend on delving into evidence-based practices. Also, there is lack of seminars given in the locale on this topic. …show more content…
Although this role is performed in a partially acceptable level, there is a need to further intensify their teaching roles to maximize the learning and growth of the RNSE nurses.
The moderate extent of the teacher role can be explained by some extent of expertise of the preceptors as clinicians and as teachers. According to Balcain, Lendrum, Bowler, Doucette & Maskell (1997), the nurse preceptor acts as an educator and expert in the clinical area and is able to guide the nurse preceptee in being aware of strengths and limitations as the transition into the clinical environment takes place. Thus, knowledge and expertise of the nurse preceptor in the clinical area is essential. For Kaviani & Stillwell (2000), besides experience and competence, teaching is a required skill of a good
Extent of Implementation of Preceptorship Roles of Professional Nurses
Teacher. In the professional nurses’ performance of their preceptorship role of teacher, an average mean score of 2.90 was obtained based on the perception of the RNSE nurses. This equates to the teacher role being moderately implemented. Thus, the professional nurses performed their teaching roles to an acceptable level.
Among the specific teacher roles, the preceptors fully guided the RNSE …show more content…
This may imply that evidence-based practice is still being relegated to the background in favor of what has always been the routine in nursing practice. The nurse preceptor may also lack enthusiasm, lack knowledge or may not have the time due to heavy workload to focus on evidence-based practice or to check out search engines like Ebscohost, CINAHL, ERIC, or PubMed for peer-reviewed journals that discuss trends in evidence-based practice. In their preceptor role as teachers, suggesting relevant resources for evidence-based practice proved to be a challenge. This finding correlates with results based on a national survey done in the US of 1,000 registered nurses wherein these nurses reported not being able to implement evidenced-based practices due to organizational policies, lack of information and education (Melnyk, 2012). Motamed-Jahromi, Jalali, Eshghi, Zaher & Dehghani (2015) mentioned that inadequate resources, increased workload, and the absence of authority could be deterrents in the application of evidence-based practice in clinical area. In the locale, patient load in an eight-hour shift takes away from the time that they could spend on delving into evidence-based practices. Also, there is lack of seminars given in the locale on this topic. …show more content…
Although this role is performed in a partially acceptable level, there is a need to further intensify their teaching roles to maximize the learning and growth of the RNSE nurses.
The moderate extent of the teacher role can be explained by some extent of expertise of the preceptors as clinicians and as teachers. According to Balcain, Lendrum, Bowler, Doucette & Maskell (1997), the nurse preceptor acts as an educator and expert in the clinical area and is able to guide the nurse preceptee in being aware of strengths and limitations as the transition into the clinical environment takes place. Thus, knowledge and expertise of the nurse preceptor in the clinical area is essential. For Kaviani & Stillwell (2000), besides experience and competence, teaching is a required skill of a good