Preparing for Your Preceptee

Successful orientation and integration into a new work environment is a fundamental component of a nurse's ability to provide safe and holistic patient care.

Precepting 101

In this section of the Toolkit, you will find resources that can help you prepare for clinical precepting from understanding the responsibilities associated with precepting to providing neutral, constructive feedback to learners.

Educational Frameworks for Clinical Teaching

This section of the Toolkit contains both conceptual and practical frameworks that can help you plan and improve your clinical teaching. While it is important to utilize precepting methods such as the One Minute Preceptor (covered in Section 2) during teaching, these frameworks provide robust information that can help you assess a learner’s progress, competence, and abilities in a comprehensive manner.

The Precepting Environment 

An essential element of effective teaching is fostering a safe learning environment. In this section of the toolkit, we provide resources to assist you in the process of guiding responses to a range of behaviors from colleagues and patients. 

Leadership and Professionalism

Alongside clinical education responsibilities and patient care, nurse preceptors are also leaders and role models for their learners and colleagues. This section of the toolkit will focus on fundamental and essential skills for current and aspiring nurse leaders.