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- Title
Improving Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Preceptor Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Willingness in a Hospital Medicine Practice: An Online Experience.
- Authors
Heusinkvelt, Sally E.; Tracy, Mary
- Abstract
Background: A hospital medicine practice experienced an increased demand for additional nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) preceptors. Method: An online preceptor education course was developed that included eight modules: communication and feedback, expectations for assessment and evaluation, pedagogy, time management and efficiency, goal setting and coaching, working with struggling or at-risk students, legal and ethical considerations, and teaching procedures. Knowledge, self-efficacy, and willingness to precept were examined in a precourse and postcourse format. Results: Postcourse, knowledge improved from 69.4% to 90.6%. Self-efficacy improved by 35.2%, and willingness to precept also improved. Qualitative themes emerged, including excitement to precept, helpful course, and time constraints. Conclusion: An online NP and PA preceptor training program increased preceptor knowledge, self-efficacy, and willingness to serve as a preceptor. Additional research is needed to explore the time constraints to serving as an NP or a PA preceptor in the inpatient environment. An online NP and PA preceptor training program increased preceptor knowledge, self-efficacy, and willingness to serve as a preceptor. Additional research is needed to explore the time constraints to serving as an NP or a PA preceptor in the inpatient environment. [[J Contin Educ Nurs. 2020;51(6):275–279.]
- Subjects
ALTERNATIVE education; CONTINUING education; HOSPITAL care; INTERNET; NURSES' attitudes; PHYSICIANS' assistants; EDUCATION of physicians' assistants; PROFESSIONS; SELF-efficacy; QUALITATIVE research; THEMATIC analysis; EDUCATIONAL outcomes; ATTITUDES of medical personnel; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 2020, Vol 51, Issue 6, p275
- ISSN
0022-0124
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3928/00220124-20200514-07