What Influences Home Care Nurses to Accept or Reject Precepting Opportunities? A Pilot Study.
Nurse managers and nursing faculty report, anecdotally, on their difficulty identifying nurses willing to precept new staff or students. To understand more about this topic, we queried home care nurses at a small agency on their perceived incentives and barriers to precepting, their preceptor status, generation of birth, and birth order. The purpose of this pilot study was to identify home care nurses' perceived incentives and barriers to becoming a preceptor. We also sought to examine possible relationships between preceptor status, generation of birth, and ordinal position of birth.
Judith Egan, MSN, RN-BC, CNE, is an Assistant Professor, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey. Eileen Helbig Toughill, PhD, RN, APN, CNL, is an Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Seton Hall University, So. Orange, New Jersey. Ann Painter, MSN, RN, is Senior Vice President VNA, Christiana Care Health System, New Castle, Delaware. Rita Truex, MSN, RN, is the Director of Quality Care Management, VNA Somerset Hills, Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
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D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D064691:Nurses, Community Health / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011231:Preceptorship; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires