S6E58: Mistakes We Made Being Precepted

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Who You’ll Hear

Kati Kleber, MSN RN CCRN-K – Nurse educator, former cardiac med-surg/stepdown and neurocritical care nurse, author, speaker

Brittney Wilson, BSN, RN, a bachelors-prepared registered nurse, is the founder and owner of The Nerdy Nurse, LLC, and TheNerdyNurse.com.

What You’ll Learn

• Common Mistakes Made as a Preceptee
• How to undo being overly confident
• Nursing is a team sport
• What teamwork really means

S6E58: Mistakes We Made Being Precepted Show Notes

• Mistakes made as a preceptee
  • My job is not to show all I know 
  • Self pressure to perform perfectly the first time 
  • It is a learning process not a performance 
• Nursing school teaches you to be overly confident
  • They tell you from day one that 1 out of 3 won’t make it 
  • You do not have to be perfect, you are still learning
• Come in hot and overly competent
  • Can you correct that? 
  • Many try and act overly competent, like you belong there, but it can alienate coworkers
  • Your skills will catch up to your confidence 
  • Admit you were wrong or that you don’t know something 
• Be aware of how often you are correcting a new nurse
  • Are you correcting policies or just your preference? 
  • Every nurse thinks their way is the best way
• Nursing is a team sport
  • Building good rapport is important 
  • Working with different personalities can be challenging
  • There is no one teaching you to get along 
  • View shifts as working together and a team, everything gets done and flows
• What does teamwork really mean? 
  • Relying on each other
  • A good preceptor is key
  • Hit the ground running
• What is a good relationship between a preceptor and preceptee? 
  • Won’t make you feel like a nuisance
  • Don’t pretend like everything is fine
  • Learn personalities and work with your strengths
• What makes a good preceptor? 
  • A good teacher or mentor
  • Some bad preceptors teach the way they were taught
    • They may not realize what they are doing
• The things you do for one preceptee with impact every patient they encounter

Mistakes We Made Being Precepted Video

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More Resources for Preceptors:

• S4E37: What Nursing Teamwork Practically Looks Like At the Bedside
• Becoming An Awesome Nursing Preceptor
• S5E43 – Tips for New Nurse Preceptors

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