title: A framework to support preceptors' evaluation and development of new nurses' clinical judgment.
abstract: In today's complex, fast-paced world of hospital nursing, new graduate nurses do not have well-developed clinical judgment skills. Nurse preceptors are charged with bridging the gap between new graduates' learning in school and their autonomous practice as RNs. In one large, urban medical center in the U.S., a clinical judgment model and rubric were used as a framework for a new evaluation and orientation process. Preceptors of new graduate nurses who had used the former and new processes described their experiences using the framework. The findings indicated that having a structured framework provided objective ways to evaluate and help develop new graduate nurses' clinical judgment. It is hypothesized that academic clinical supervisors may find such a framework useful to prepare students for transition to practice.
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing, 3455 SW US Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR 97239-2941, USA. Electronic address: nielsena@ohsu.edu.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nielsen
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing, 3455 SW US Veterans Hospital Road, Portland, OR 97239-2941, USA.
authors.forename: Kathie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lasater
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University Hospital, 3181 Southwest Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stock
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D009726:Nurses / Q000592:standards*; D011231:Preceptorship / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards
keywords: Clinical judgment; Evaluation; Graduate nurse; Mentor; Newly qualified nurse; Orientation; Preceptor; Tutor