Preceptoring a New Staff

Running head: PRECEPTORING A NEW STAFF
PRECEPTORING A NEW STAFF
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
Author note:

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Introduction:
Reflective practices can be described as the medium by which the nursing professionals
can share their own experiences for improving their work and clinical practices. This medium is
found to be extremely helpful in carrying on with lifelong learning by the professionals (Boamah
et al., 2018). The act of reflection is indeed one of the best ways of increasing the confidence and
thereby becoming a more qualified as well as proactive professional in the healthcare service
(Giddens, 2018). This assignment would be mainly depicting an incident where I had to lead a
new nurse in the healthcare centre. For effectively reflecting on the incident, Gibb’s reflective
cycle would be used in the assignment.
Description:
One I got the opportunity to become a preceptor to a new nursing student who had joined
the healthcare centre during placement. It was a very busy shift and large number of patients was
needed to be attended. I made everything understand to the new nurse and went to the emergency
room for handling a serious case. When I came back, I noticed that she had not attended the
patients that I had asked him to. I got disappointed and immediately shouted on her in front of
all. She was not able to apply the theories properly to her nursing practices and hence she was
criticized by me. She was not even able to complete her work within time and often delayed
every work that was assigned to her. One-day, she came and told me that a patient is not willing
to take medication but I was so upset with her actions for the previous days, that I cut her short
and asked her not to make excuses and complete the medication administration. Later, I came to
know that the patient had complained against the staff nurse for forcibly administering
medication. At the same time, I found the staff nurse crying for being questioned about her

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actions and she told the head authority that she no more wanted to work under my leadership. To
this, my mentor called me to his room and advised me. He believed that I had adopted autocratic
leadership style which had demotivated the student. He instructed that as a preceptor, I had to
uptake transformational leadership style for managing and mentoring the new staff nurse.
Feeling:
I was feeling extremely guilty for having hurt the new nurse. I was also upset over the
fact that I could not lead him effectively that resulted her in feeling demotivated. Moreover, I
also understood. If I had guided her appropriately, the new nurse would not have been held
responsible for the complained lodged against her by the patient. I realized that I have to develop
my leadership skills so that I can lead future teams of nurses efficiently and guide them to
become expert professionals in the healthcare centers. I was quite upset as I could not prove
myself as an effective leader to my mentor and thereby wanted to work on my leadership skills
to make him proud and also to ensure that every patient is provided safe and quality care by all
nurses under my leadership.
Evaluation:
The negative aspect of the incident was that the staff nurse had become highly
demotivated and did not want to work with me. The staff nurse even wanted to leave the
profession and withdraw her name from placement. She was held accountable for poor unethical
care practice against the patient who lodged a complaint against her. If I would have guided her
effectively without cutting her while she was speaking and exhibited effective listening skill, I
could have prevented the incident from working. The new nurse had totally lost all confidence as
she felt that I had made her feel that she has no proper nursing knowledge and skills to work in