• E-mail
• Print
• RSS

Inside best practice: Reap benefits from creating a partnership

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, July 1, 2008

A partnership between Nebraska Methodist Hospital (NMH)—an ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) recipient in 2004—and Nebraska Methodist College (NMC)—both located in Omaha—allows NMH preceptors to work with NMC students in their last semester of college to help them prepare for the nursing environment.

Students in this preceptorship course receive the opportunity to complete a project on a clinical issue on different nursing units at NMH. “In the beginning not every project chosen by the student was of value to the nursing units,” says Celeste Felix, MSN, RN, CEN, SANE-A, Magnet Recognition Program® coordinator and clinical nurse specialist at NMH. “But by working together, the students could see what the unit’s needs were in terms of answering a clinical question, so the students began to work on a project that the unit itself could use and take forward in the clinical practice area.”

Because of the collaborative initiative between NMH and NMC, the preceptorship course also gives NMC preceptor students the opportunity to use NMH’s assessment system—a program to see where the nurse is in terms of knowledge and clinical skills—to give them a better idea of how strong their clinical practice skills are before they graduate.
Source: HCPro’s Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®. Don't have a subscription? Sign up now!

Editor’s note: Do you have a best practice that you would like to share? E-mail your best practice to associate editor Cameran Erny at cerny@hcpro.com and see your name in print!

• Comment
• E-mail to a Colleague
• Print
• RSS
• Archive

Comments