TY - JOUR
T1 - A learning partnership
T2 - Exploring preceptorship through interviews with registered and novice nurses
AU - Ockerby, Cherene M.
AU - Newton, Jennifer M.
AU - Cross, Wendy M.
AU - Jolly, Brian C.
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - Novice nurses encounter numerous factors that impact on their learning in the complex healthcare workplace. Registered nurses often work one-on-one with novices as preceptors to facilitate the development of novices’ clinical skills and socialisation into the profession. This paper explores the concept of preceptorship from novice nurses’ and preceptors’ perspective, drawing upon data from a project between a large healthcare organisation and a university in Melbourne, Australia. The study, framed in ethnomethodology, included fieldwork observation, interviews and student surveys; this paper focuses on data collected over a series of individual interviews with nursing students (n = 28) and preceptors (n = 25). Thematic analysis yielded six key themes: workplace socialisation, empathy, individuality, willingness to engage, changing support and a realisation [by novices about the preceptor role]. Findings highlight the complexity of workplace learning that is influenced by the idiosyncrasies of the individuals involved and the social milieu in which the learning takes place.
AB - Novice nurses encounter numerous factors that impact on their learning in the complex healthcare workplace. Registered nurses often work one-on-one with novices as preceptors to facilitate the development of novices’ clinical skills and socialisation into the profession. This paper explores the concept of preceptorship from novice nurses’ and preceptors’ perspective, drawing upon data from a project between a large healthcare organisation and a university in Melbourne, Australia. The study, framed in ethnomethodology, included fieldwork observation, interviews and student surveys; this paper focuses on data collected over a series of individual interviews with nursing students (n = 28) and preceptors (n = 25). Thematic analysis yielded six key themes: workplace socialisation, empathy, individuality, willingness to engage, changing support and a realisation [by novices about the preceptor role]. Findings highlight the complexity of workplace learning that is influenced by the idiosyncrasies of the individuals involved and the social milieu in which the learning takes place.
KW - Preceptorship
KW - Registered nurses
KW - Undergraduate students
KW - Workplace learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80051580650&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13611260903284440
DO - 10.1080/13611260903284440
M3 - Other Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:80051580650
SN - 1361-1267
VL - 17
SP - 369
EP - 385
JO - Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning
JF - Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning
IS - 4
ER -