Webinar Series
To support Massachusetts nursing programs in orienting and supporting new clinical nursing faculty/preceptors, a series of webinars is provided. These webinars are offered by the New England Nursing Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academy administered by the UMass Chan Medical School/Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing in collaboration with Area Health Education Center partners across the region.
This initiative aligns with the mission of the Massachusetts Nursing Council for Workforce Sustainability, which is committed to addressing the nursing workforce shortage by developing innovative solutions and fostering a well-prepared and supported nursing education community.
- The webinars focus on four essential roles of clinical nursing faculty/preceptors: teacher/coach, evaluator, protector, and role model, providing targeted guidance to excel in these areas.
- Each recorded webinar is approximately one hour in length and includes a taped didactic presentation followed by case studies and/or taped question-and-answer sessions.
- The webinars are provided at no cost to participants and include continuing education (CEs).
- You will need to view a webinar for at least 50 minutes before receiving an evaluation form. Once this form is completed, following the recording, you will receive the CE certificate.
To view a PDF containing all of the webinars with descriptions and discussion questions designed to stimulate meaningful dialogue & facilitate the exchange of ideas, please click here
You can learn more about the New England Nursing Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academy here
Precepting 101
This webinar provides an overview of the role and includes the difference between a clinical nursing faculty/preceptor and mentor. It also describes how Benner’s novice to expert model helps to identify the progress of the student/graduate and factors with clinical nursing faculty/preceptor effectiveness.
Intentional Teaching/Clinical Nursing Faculty/Preceptor Challenges - Part 1 & Part 2
These two workshops review the one-minute clinical nursing faculty/preceptor model, discuss working with faculty/staff and colleagues, explore different teaching methods, and apply case studies of difficult clinical nursing faculty/preceptor-student/trainee interactions.
Part 2
Considering Feedback: Effective Techniques for Use in Clinical Education
This hands-on workshop describes the characteristics of the teacher and learner in professional feedback, recognizes barriers to effective feedback, and explores elements to frame effective feedback.
Evaluation and Feedback
This workshop defines formative and summative evaluation. It also describes, in detail, the use of Plus/Delta to organize observations and feedback, and reviews strategies for providing effective written and oral feedback.
Clinical Performance Remediation: Be Prepared for Those Difficult Conversations
This workshop defines remediation, identifies effective strategies to use in conversations with students/preceptees when gaps in knowledge, performance, or behavior are identified, and applies the SMART format to document a remediation plan for an individual with and identifies practice or behavioral concerns.
Sensitive Content in the Healthcare Learning Environment
This workshop discusses emotional regulation in healthcare education, how to help students develop strategies for emotional regulation in nursing, and how the teacher can mitigate or minimize the negative impact of sensitive educational materials. It identifies triggers, such as racism, previous experience, and/or beliefs.
Strategies for the clinical nursing faculty/preceptor include giving a potential trigger warning as the lecture or post-conference begins, valuing and hearing varied opinions, and modeling an open and inclusive interpersonal exchange.
Guided Reflective Practice in the Clinical Experience
This webinar focuses on how clinical nurse faculty/preceptors can act as role models for self-reflection, self-care, and the development of coping skills. Gibbs' Reflective Cycle is used as a model to give structure to learning from experiences through 6 stages: description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, and action plan.