About the Book
Preceptors have the power and opportunity to inspire nurses and other healthcare providers to achieve greatness. Effective precepting programs depend on two critical groups: those who organize and manage the programs and those who support, teach, and coach. Beth Ulrich and her team of expert contributing authors provide the knowledge, tools, skills, and wisdom both groups need for success. Written for staff nurses and other care providers, managers, and educators, this third edition of Mastering Precepting teaches preceptors both the science and art of precepting and empowers them to seek the support they need to be effective. For managers, it emphasizes the importance of providing preceptors with positive and supportive experiences. For educators, it provides the information and knowledge required to develop and improve preceptor programs. This fully revised third edition covers:
NEW: Developing a professional identity
NEW: The role and responsibilities of nursing professional development (NPD) practitioners in developing, supporting, recognizing, and retaining preceptors
NEW: Preceptor competencies based on the ANPD national study
Self-care for preceptors
Information on developing, implementing, and evaluating preceptor programs
Precepting advanced practice registered nurse students and new graduates
About the Author :
Beth Tamplet Ulrich, EdD, RN, FACHE, FAONL, FAAN, is a nationally recognized thought leader who is known for her research studying nursing work environments and the experiences of new graduate nurses as they transition from nursing school into the workforce, and for her leadership in developing the roles of nephrology nurses and improving the care of nephrology patients. Ulrich has extensive experience as a healthcare executive, educator, and researcher. She is currently serving as a Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing in Galveston in the DNP Program, and Editor-in-Chief of the Nephrology Nursing Journal, the professional journal of the American Nephrology Nurses Association. Ulrich has been a co-investigator on a series of national nursing workforce and work environment studies and five national studies of critical-care nurse work environments conducted with the American Association of Critical-CareNurses. Ulrich received her bachelor's degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, her master's degree from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and her doctorate in Allied Health Administration and Education from the University of Houston in a collaborative program with Baylor College of Medicine. She is a past president of the American Nephrology Nurses' Association, a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, and a fellow in the American Organization for Nursing Leadership. She was recognized as the Outstanding Nursing Alumnus of the Medical University of South Carolina in 1989, as a distinguished alumnus of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing in 2002, received the Outstanding Contribution to the American Nephrology Nurses Association award in 2008, and received the Marguerite Rodgers Kinney Award for a Distinguished Career from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses in 2018. Ulrich has numerous publications and presentations to her credit on topics including nephrology nursing, nurses' work environments, and how new graduate nurses transition into professional nurses.
Review :
"In this third edition of Mastering Precepting, Ulrich and the contributing authors provide an up-to-date, comprehensive, well-organized, and easy-to-use resource for any nurse who wants to make a positive impact by serving as a preceptor. The practical tips and strategies in the book cover a wide range of topics, from communication and mentoring to evaluation and feedback, and guide how to navigate common challenges and issues that arise in the preceptor-preceptee relationship. In addition, there is new content for nursing professional development practitioners and on professional identity. Overall, this book is an essential, practical tool for any nurse who wants to be a successful preceptor."
-David Marshall, JD, DNP, RN, CENP, NEA-BC, FAONL, FAANSenior Vice President & Chief Nursing ExecutiveJames R. Klinenberg, MD, and Lynn Klinenberg Linkin Chair in Nursing in honor of Linda Burnes BoltonCedars-Sinai, Los Angeles
"Precepting the new graduate or the experienced nurse has never been more important than in today's healthcare environment. Beth Ulrich provides strategies, concepts, roles, and tools for nurses learning the foundation of precepting and those looking for new content such as professional identity development and the role of nursing professional development practitioners. This essential book fills the gaps in knowledge for all nurse preceptors."
-Tamara Kear, PhD, RN, CNN, FAANSystem Vice President Professional Practice, Nursing Research & EBPCommonSpirit Health
"This book is brilliant, relevant, and a must-have resource for all preceptors and those supporting the lifelong learning journey of preceptors. This edition provides updated strategies for all preceptors and the ability to develop meaningful action plans to enhance the learning journeys. Bravo!"
-Sylvain Trepanier, DNP, RN, CENP, FAONL, FAANSVP, Chief Nursing OfficerProvidence, Renton Washington
"Dr. Ulrich and her contributing authors have created a timely, thoughtful, instructive, and inspiring contemporary work. Perhaps today more than ever, teaching the next generation of nurses and healthcare students and learning to help our current practicing colleagues to transition specialties, settings, and roles is not just fundamental but critical to the future. This practical guide to precepting defines both the art and science of shaping practice, education, and research and is core to building and transferring our professional identity as nurses."
-Cole Edmonson, DNP, RN, FACHE, NEA-BC, FAAN, FAONL, FNAPChief Clinical Officer, AMN Healthcare
"Once we expected faculty to monitor students, for new graduates to 'figure it out, ' and for a nurse with any experience to transition anywhere needed. Then, as we focused on safety and quality, we realized all those individuals needed support of some kind to acquire the new expected competencies of the role in that setting. Once again, that is what Dr. Ulrich and her colleagues have done in the third edition of Mastering Precepting, with just the right balance of theory and practicality to make this a most useful book."
-Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAONL, FAANProfessor and Dean Emerita, Texas Tech University Health Sciences CenterCo-Founder and Vice President, the Nurses Legacy InstituteEditor-in-Chief, The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing
