Concept of Clinical Preceptorship

"Nursing students need experience that will provide for their greatest growth, experiences as close as possible to the real situations in which they will work after graduation" (Meisenheiner, 1979, p. 41). If nurses "remained in their educational programs until that had obtained enough knowledge and skills to function effectively in the job setting," however, "they would probably never graduate" (Deane and Campbell, 1985, p. 190). Thus, is the dilemma facing nursing students, those who educate them, and those who will eventually employ them.

A traditional approach to solving this problem is the student intern program (Borland, 1991, pp. 56-59). The intern approach, however, is

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ctions. These functions of mentoring are (1) teaching, (2) sponsoring, (3) encouraging, (4) counseling, and (5) befriending (Yoder, 1990, pp. 9-19). Values held by mentors materially affect their mentoring skills (Yoder, 1990, pp. 9-19). Mentors are, in effect, teachers; however, they must be much more than just teachers (Yoder, 1990, pp. 9-19). An effective mentoring relationship requires an involvement between mentor and protege outside of the hospital, and well as in the wards. The mentoring relationship must pass through three phases. The first phase is one of idealism and dependency on the part of the protege (Yoder, 1990, pp. 9-19). In the second phase, the protege becomes increasingly independent, and begins to negotiate the term of the mentoring relationship (Yoder, 1990, pp. 9-19). The third phase of the mentoring relationship is one in which it is transformed from a hierarchical relationship to one of independent equals (Yoder, 1990, pp. 9-19). The mentor's value system must facilitate the attainment of protege independence, as opposed to attempting to maintain a dependent relationship. The mentoring approach would be the ideal way to bring new nurses into the profession if time were not
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