This is a guide for creating a successful preceptor program in the healthcare environment. It features the core tools, best practices, processes, adaptable forms, and training materials for developing and evaluating preceptors, information for preparing preceptors for certification through portfolio-building, and a tested framework for preceptor programs.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 21, 2014). Previously published as: Nurse preceptor program builder. Second edition / Diana Swihart. HCPro, c2007.

Chapter 1. What is a preceptorship? -- chapter 2. Roles and responsibilities of the preceptor and the preceptee -- chapter 3. Preparing preceptors in the speciality of preceptoring -- chapter 4. Understanding principles of adult learning -- chapter 5. Identifying preceptors and preceptees -- chapter 6. Growing professional work skills and relationships -- chapter 7. Challenges of preceptoring with applications to work and practice -- chapter 8. Orientation and competency -- chapter 9. Evaluating performance, giving feedback, and overall program evaluation -- chapter 10. Developing preceptors in work and practice environments -- chapter 11. Issues and trends in preceptoring -- chapter 12. From preceptoring to mentoring.