Instituting preceptor training programs

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Task 1: A list of Readings on the Clinical Support Role (Preceptor)
 The key elements of developing preceptor program (Nash, and Flowers, 2017, p.1).
 Instituting preceptor training programs
 Sustainable regional preceptor partnerships (Morgan et al., 2018, p.1).
 System impact of an interdisciplinary preceptor program.
Task 2: Explore Definitions of Preceptor
A receptor is often a competent and experienced staff nurse who has received formal
training to function in this capacity and whose role is to function as resource individual to new
staff nurses. Therefore, a receptor is an educator in the nursing profession.
Task 3: Role of a Receptor
While defining the meaning of the term Preceptor in the medical context, Alspach (2000)
provides three fundamental roles of a Preceptor (Miller, Vivona, and Roth, 2016, p.11). These roles
include educator, socializer and role model. However, the roles of a Preceptor may be expanded
based on his/her position in the organization. For instance, a Preceptor may be responsible for
designing the environment. Under this role, the Preceptor considers the acuity of the patient
population, the tenure of staff, the number of employees, the likelihood of occurrence of
destructions and the available resources in order to optimize learning among the new nurses.
Preceptors may also assume the support role by guiding the new nurses to effectively contact
their operations in the clinical setting. Receptors who assume a primary role within the
organization may offer a “hand off” to other preceptors. On the same note, these kinds of
preceptors have the obligation to oversee the necessary documentations for orientation.
Therefore, preceptors may be ones who initiate and proceed with the orientation process in the