Effective Precepting of Nursing and Midwifery Students in the Clinical Setting: Role of Educators and Clinicians

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the roles of Educators and Clinicians in effective precepting of Nursing and Midwifery Students in the Clinical Setting. It aids both experienced and new preceptors to become more effective teachers in the delivery of their roles to students, interns and newly employed nurses while maintaining the standard of Nursing & Midwifery clinical area. The paper discussed vast literature surrounding the phenomena of preceptorship in nursing. The paper enlightens the concept of establishing an effective preceptorship, teaching strategies for effective preceptorships, challenges confronting precepting’s, roles and responsibilities of educators and clinicians’ receptors and benefits of effective precepting. Recommendations made in the paper are; Strengthening preceptorship in providing theoretical and practical knowledge to the nursing students, each student nurse should have a formally assigned preceptor that is responsible for the academic growth of that student, preceptor can use various teaching strategies for effective student’s clinical practice, nursing leaders and administrators should put on more effort in improving precepting activities in hospitals and institutions, professional organisations should give more support to precepting in nursing for professional development.