Please help! Need tips for student nursing preceptorship

[blaaveispiken]

During our lunch hour at clinicals this quarter we are each assigned a week to lead discussion during our lunch break -- mine is next week. Since we will be doing our nursing preceptorship next quarter (our final quarter) I thought it would be a good topic for discussion. I'm looking for any tips from experienced nurses, new nurses, and especially from nurses who precept and student nurses currently in their preceptor program (or just completed).

Thank you!

[grinnurse, RN]

During our lunch hour at clinicals this quarter we are each assigned a week to lead discussion during our lunch break -- mine is next week. Since we will be doing our nursing preceptorship next quarter (our final quarter) I thought it would be a good topic for discussion. I'm looking for any tips from experienced nurses, new nurses, and especially from nurses who precept and student nurses currently in their preceptor program (or just completed).

Thank you!

Are you looking for information as to what the person should get out of the experience or what? Are you looking for specific areas of where to try to get where you want to be. I don't quite understand what kind of specific tips that you are seeking. If you can expand on the area of tips that you are looking for maybe I can help with what I experienced during that time.

Thanks

[wonderbee, BSN, RN]

Sharing my insights from a recently completed preceptorship, I would say that the same tips about clinical in general apply. Don't be a wallflower. Seek out new experiences. Don't let a question go by unasked. Communicate with the docs. Help out when extra muscle is needed. Become part of the team. Remember that nurse managers are eyeballing you as a possible addition to their staff at this point.

[blaaveispiken]

Thank you so much for sharing -- good tips! Actually had the discussion today and it went very well. I found some great tips online after doing an extensive search. Thanks again!