NSG490Nursing Theory, Critical Thinking and Competency

Assuming that you are beyond the novice stage of skill acquisition, consider a time when you again became a novice. For example, you may believe yourself to be an expert in orthopedic nursing, but one day you are asked to float to a new unit where you are unfamiliar with the routines of that unit and the particular assessments and medications common to those types of patients.

Part 1

How did you use your more advanced practices to step back into that novice nurse role?

Did you have a preceptor assigned to you?

What resources did you use?

Part 2

If you are a preceptor to a novice nurse, how can you be effective in sharing your experience without being intimidating?

What makes an ideal preceptor?

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