Vickie Sattler: Learning from a “Bad Outcome” pt 2
In Part 2 of our interview with Preceptor Vickie Sattler, we hear how a preceptee is coached through a patient’s death to provide the best care and comfort to both the patient and family.
Vickie Sattler: Two Key Roles for Preceptors pt 1
A strong preceptor program can dramatically improve a hospital’s retention rate of new nurses. However, the of the emergency department preceptor faces unique challenges as they work quickly in situations that may fall outside the orientee’s experience and clinical knowledge. Vickie Sattler of Spokane, WA, meets the challenge with excellent situated coaching and local …
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Two Key Roles of Preceptors: Situated Coaching and Teaching Local Knowledge
copyright 2019 by Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN Health care institutions are complex organizations with many moving parts and players who must coordinate and share their local work knowledge (Geertz, 2000). Geertz points out that a study of local knowledge is necessarily a study of the particular, concrete in relation to the general, …
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