What is it that makes a person a good preceptor? What are things that they do that makes them, well, not so good?
Does the preceptor need to adapt to the orientee, or should the orientee adapt to the preceptor?
I would like some input from others, your experiences, so that I can sort through what went wrong with my day shift preceptor.
So how did your preceptor teach and treat you? What worked the best, what didn't work at all?
Thanks in advance. :)
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2 comments:
My two cents worth:
For starters, some people just should preceptor new staff. They just shouldn't. Experience doesn't make a good preceptor - an interest in educating and enabling others is arguably as, if not more, important.
A good preceptor, in my opinion, is one that will assess what their preceptee knows, and find out what they want to learn, as well as knowing what they need to learn. In my experience, good preceptors stand back and allow their preceptees to try and find their feet and be as independent as possible, but doing it in a way that provides safe patient care, and where the preceptee knows that they are supported.
The preceptor does need to adapt to their orientee, but it should be remembered that one role of a preceptor is to orient a new staff member to the organisational environment - so in some ways, the orientee should be adapting to the preceptor and their new environment.
In my experience when I started on the ward as a new grad nurse, my preceptor had a sink or swim attitude, and a no-nonsense way of letting me know when I screwed up (think Cartman from South Park). This worked well for me, but would probably be counter-productive for others. When I eventaully preceptored a new grad, I focused on making them feel comfortable, always being open for questions, and always making the point of seeing how they were going and if everything was OK. I saw showing an interest in their development to be important. Feedback from my grad indicated that this was appreciated.
Now I can only hope that my new preceptor is as good as my old one...
Is this where I should now crap on about how I have a chronic illness/pain/axe to grind and how unfeeling and horrible medical and nursing staff are...? Oh the pain... :)
prnpenguin.. thank you for your input. I greatly appreciate it. As it happens, the last couple of people who have been oriented by this person did not have such a good orientation either. For me, I am glad that you shared your experiences, as it gives me insight on perhaps how to change/adapt myself so that the remainder of my orientation goes much more smoothly!
And if you wanna grind an axe, feel free LOL :)
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