Mosby's Preceptor Course - Developed in collaboration with NNSDO

The stakes are high: replacing one staff nurse due to turnover can cost as much as $88,000, and research shows that the quality of nurse orientation correlates directly to patient safety and nurse recruitment and retention success. The role of preceptor has never been more important or complex. Not only are preceptors responsible for teaching new and transferring staff about clinical responsibilities and increasingly complex standards of care, they must ensure that orientees demonstrate competency in the application of that knowledge.

Mosby’s Preceptor Course is a blended e-learning course designed to give health care facilities a decisive edge in preceptor development. Through 15 lessons, the industry's most comprehensive preceptor course provides the foundational knowledge preceptors need to both assess and promote nursing knowledge, critical thinking, and competency. Preceptors can earn up to 40.49* continuing education contact hours for completing all course components.

Teaching the Teachers
Mosby’s Preceptor Course was created by Elsevier/Elsevier / MC Strategies in collaboration with the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (NNSDO). Lessons focus on helping preceptors gain the teaching, communication, and evaluation skills required to effectively convey key information about roles, responsibilities, and the organization’s expectations for nurses new to the hospital or specialty unit.

With This Course, Preceptors:
	Learn to assess individual learning needs, set goals, and develop an individualized coaching plan
	Receive guidance about the often-overlooked area of understanding different cultural influences and beliefs and how to apply this awareness to the educational process
	Are offered a range of effective teaching strategies and tools, to promote flexibility and adapt a plan to the preceptee’s learning style

Lessons in Mosby’s Preceptor Course contain a variety of interactive elements, including:
	Tables, audio, and animation
	Knowledge Check activities with feedback
	Post tests with rationales for correct and incorrect answers
	“Preceptor Pearls” to reinforce and increase retention of key concepts

Adapting to a Fast-Changing World
As care models evolve to accommodate new patient safety regulations, evidence-based guidelines, and a greater emphasis on interdisciplinary care, the role of preceptor will become even more important to an organization's day-to-day performance and long-term success. With Mosby’s Preceptor Course, your hospital gains a valuable resource that helps ensure consistent, high-level nursing performance in a complex, fast-changing world. Contact Elsevier / MC Strategies today to learn more.


Lesson Listing:
-	Role of a Preceptor
-	Teaching/Learning Process: Adult Learning Principles and Competency
-	Teaching/Learning Process: Cultural Influences
-	Teaching/Learning Process: Learning Styles
-	Communication: Effective Skills
-	Communication: Feedback and Managing Conflict
-	Competency: Domains of Learning and Performance
-	Competency: Novice to Expert Continuum and Performance
-	Critical Thinking: Application and Evaluation
-	Critical Thinking: Developing and Fostering the Skill
-	Precepting in Action: Assessing and Setting Goals
-	Precepting in Action: Developing and Implementing a Coaching Plan
-	Precepting in Action: Evaluating Performance
-	Supporting the Preceptee: Assignments and Time Management
-	Supporting the Preceptee: The Learning Environment

*Elsevier/Mosby is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Elsevier/Mosby is provider approved by the Florida Board of Nursing. The provider number is #50-4681. Elsevier/Mosby is provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. The California Provider number is CEP 3257.