RESUMO
Preceptors are vital resources for the clinical education of healthcare providers, especially neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs). With the increasing number of NNP programs, including distance accessible programs, there is a need for research to identify effective strategies for recruiting, preparing, and supporting preceptors in their roles. This article presents a review of existing literature and describes findings from a survey of NNP program directors in the United States and from a survey of preceptors for a distance-based NNP program in an Academic Health Sciences Center in the southern United States. The survey focused on current practices in recruiting and supporting preceptors and on perceptions of strategies that would facilitate success and enhance preceptor satisfaction with their roles. The article concludes with presentation of a model based on survey findings and recommendations from the literature that can guide NNP faculty and researchers in identifying effective strategies for recruiting, preparing, and supporting clinical preceptors.
Assuntos
Mentores/psicologia , Enfermagem Neonatal , Enfermeiros Administradores/psicologia , Profissionais de Enfermagem , Seleção de Pessoal/organização & administração , Preceptoria/organização & administração , Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Competência Clínica , Educação Continuada em Enfermagem , Educação de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem , Docentes de Enfermagem/provisão & distribuição , Guias como Assunto , Necessidades e Demandas de Serviços de Saúde , Humanos , Capacitação em Serviço , Mentores/educação , Mentores/estatística & dados numéricos , Modelos Educacionais , Modelos de Enfermagem , Enfermagem Neonatal/educação , Enfermagem Neonatal/organização & administração , Profissionais de Enfermagem/educação , Profissionais de Enfermagem/organização & administração , Profissionais de Enfermagem/psicologia , Papel do Profissional de Enfermagem/psicologia , Pesquisa Metodológica em Enfermagem , Apoio Social , Inquéritos e Questionários , Estados UnidosRESUMO
The purpose of this article is to describe measures used to prevent abduction of infants from healthcare facilities. According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, 122 infants were abducted from hospitals between 1983 and 2008; characteristics of the abductors have been found to be similar in the majority of infant abductions. The Joint Commission has established security standards, and conducts assessments to identify abduction risk within hospitals. Nurses can contribute to the safety and security of infants by following prevention plans which emphasize these and other actions: educating parents about abduction risks, using identically numbered bands on the baby and parents, taking color photographs of the infant, wearing color photograph ID badges themselves, discouraging parents/families from publishing birth notices in the public media, controlling access to nursery/postpartum unit, and utilizing infant security tags or abduction alarm systems.
