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Feeling Stuck? 5 Reasons Why and How to Get Out of the Rut 

Minority Nurse

Precepting or mentoring can be a great way to reignite your passion and keep you on your toes. Limited Scope of Practice and Not Feeling Challenged The Fix: Nurses can feel stuck due to the limitations of their current practice. Recommend taking on a different assignment or project.

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Celebrating Black Nursing Leaders: Karen McNulty

Minority Nurse

Before I knew it, my nurse manager asked me to precept recent grads and nurses new to the hospital. After some orientation and being assigned to more charge shifts, my fear subsided, and I began to love this role as much as I love precepting. What inspired you to become a nurse?

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Physicians Don’t Talk Enough with Patients About Non-Medical Needs

Health Populi

these precepts remind us about the moral and ethical dimensions of public health. The achievement of any State in the promotion and protection of health is of value to all.” ” As we build bridges in Congress to make healthcare better for everyone in the U.S.,

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Take Ownership of Your Nursing Knowledge and Skills

Minority Nurse

precepting or mentoring). In the interpersonal realm, there are skills related to communication, including emotional and relational intelligence, counseling, and active listening. We can also point to patient and family education or the education and training of other nurses (e.g.,

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Do You Need a Nurse Mentor?

Minority Nurse

Being precepted means that you’re being shown the ropes of where things are and how things are done. Mentors are Everywhere Mentors are everywhere and can be sources of great inspiration who utilize their personal and professional experience as examples for others. However, mentors are distinct from preceptors.

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“Beyond the Bubble Bath,” Self-Care Must Be Rooted in Science To Build Trust Among Consumers

Health Populi

These are the precepts underling digital citizenship, central to peoples’ overall health and well-being, a civil society, and to Bayer’s point-of-view, effective science-based self-care in a trusted health/care framework.

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Nurse Residencies: Norm or Exception?

Minority Nurse

Meanwhile, their less fortunate new grad colleagues take positions where they may be subject to extremely poor (or veritably nonexistent) precepting and essentially set up to sink or swim. Presented as a game that only a lucky few can win, new nurse residencies provide great career-launching benefits for a small cohort of novice nurses.