Student and Preceptor Advancement in a Dedicated Education Site: Innovation in Clinical Education for Advanced Practice Nurses

Strategies to Reduce Bias and Racism in Nursing Precepted Clinical Experiences

BACKGROUND

Nursing programs are tasked with ensuring diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) learning environments for all student learners. With calls to diversify the nursing workforce, engaging nursing preceptors in program-wide DEI initiatives are crucial. Preceptors lacking commitment to DEI could result in poor patient-preceptor communication, tense learning environments, or biased evaluations of students.

METHOD

Suggestions for successful strategies to include the preceptor in nursing program's antiracism initiatives are based on the current literature.

RESULTS

Best practices include providing antiracism training for preceptors, decreasing potential for bias in student evaluations, inquiring about observed racism in clinical sites, and equipping students to be upstanders for antiracism and DEI interventions.

CONCLUSION

Dismantling racism and bias in nursing education requires a multilevel strategy. Nursing programs and nurse educators have a responsibility for ensuring a bias-free learning environment and should include the preceptor in antiracism strategic planning. [J Nurs Educ. 2021;60(12):697-702.].

Contributions of the Education through Work for Health Program to the preceptors of Primary Healthcare

OBJECTIVE

To analyze the contributions of the Education through Work for Health Program to the preceptors of Primary Healthcare working in family health units in Feira de Santana, Bahia.

METHOD

A qualitative study conducted with preceptors in the months of March and April 2016, adopting preceptors who had worked in family health units linked to the Program for a minimum period of two years as inclusion criterion. Preceptors on vacation, maternity leave or on leave for different reasons were excluded. The collected data were interpreted based on the content analysis technique.

RESULTS

A total of 16 preceptors were interviewed. The Program's contributions to the preceptors were as follows: expanding the perspective on health work, gaining experience in the teaching-learning process and the motivation to continue and search for new studies.

CONCLUSION

The Program enabled preceptors to take a broader look at health work in the context of Primary Healthcare, to gain experience in training processes and motivation to develop new studies, in addition to contributing in a responsible way to the consolidation of the Unified Health System.