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Mentorship & Preceptorship Update
4th April 2018 @ 12:30 - 16:30
So, why Preceptorship ?
What is it and how does it affect your work and practice.
- General Practice has an ageing workforce – 33.4% GPNs are due to retire by 2020
- There is a lack of or no succession planning
- Few placements in GP practices for student nurses means they do not consider Primary Care when choosing where to work
- Few openings for NQN being employed in General practice
- Lack of Nurse mentors in General practice
- GPN role still being perceived as being for more mature and experienced nurses
So the Five Year Forward View and The General Practice Nursing workforce Development Plan.
It’s important that we support our nursing colleagues when they come to work with us in primary care especially nurses and HCA who are new to post or returners to nursing.
There is a Capital Nurse programme that has been running for years in the acute and community settings and now its being rolled out within London to embed in primary care.
What is preceptorship
A supported transitionary period to develop confidence and competence in practice whilst continuing with professional development.
Who is preceptorship for?
All Newly Qualified/Registered Nurses (NQN), Nurses who are new to primary care (form another area/speciality) and Back to Nursing.
Who can be a perceptor ?
Any nurse can be a preceptor and doesn’t require a mentors qualification.
A preceptor is all of us – a registered practitioner, eg a General Practice Nurse (GPN) registered with the NMC.
A preceptor is a nurse who has been given a formal responsibility to support a newly registered practitioner or a Nurse new to the role of GPN.
A preceptor should be a first level registered nurse who has had at least 12 months’ experience within the same area of practice as the new registrant – the preceptee.
Who is a Preceptee?
A preceptee is a newly registered practitioner or Nurse new to the role who needs to be supported by a preceptor to refine their skills, values and behaviours.
“The transition period after newly qualifying is an important time to develop a new nurse’s core skills and values and support each individual to practise in accordance with the NMC Code.
The NMC (2006) strongly recommends that all new registrants have a period of preceptorship on starting their employment. This applies to those newly admitted to the NMC Register who have completed a pre-registration programme in the UK for the first time, or have subsequently entered a new part of the register.”
