Brittney van de Water, Kelsey Renning, Anda Nyondo, Mustapha Sonnie, Ashley H Longacre, Helen Ewing, Mary Fullah, Lignet Chepuka, Julie Mann
BACKGROUND: Expanding the quality and quantity of midwifery and nursing clinical preceptors is a critical need in many sub-Saharan educational settings to strengthen students' clinical learning outcomes, and ultimately to improve maternal and child mortality. Therefore, this study protocol was developed to establish a year-long, four step, precepting program to (1) improve partnership building and program development (2) provide an evidence-based course to expand competency and confidence in precepting students (3) select preceptors to become train the trainers and (4) secure accreditation for the program, ultimately to engage and support cohorts of preceptors and continue to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the program over five years...
May 31, 2024: BMC Nursing