Team Preceptorship Model: A Solution for Students' Clinical Experience

Table 1

Themes from preceptors’ group.

Themes	Quotes
Support for preceptors and students	R1 “For us, one of the advantages was rather than having to look for a whole bunch of opportunities for the students, one set of our team looked for activities that were specific to breast feeding. Another part of the team looked for home visits, and another part looked for any prenatal opportunities. And then we opened that to all the students. So you didn’t have to do all the work. It was good”.
	R2 “I appreciated having a manager oversee what the preceptors do. So each preceptor did not have to deal with preceptor type issues, program activities, students’ questions and stuff like that. It was nice just to have it be more streamlined”.
	R4 “…I think because there were more than one student, they worked as a team as well to do whatever their assignment was”.
Collaboration among team members	R3 “We didn’t feel like the onus of responsibility was just on the preceptors. It was there, more working groups and students were mentoring one another as well. So that really helped to alleviate the pressure of the day to day activities. Whereas our involvement was more around the learning plans, evaluation and that type of thing. So that really worked much better this time. We coordinated much better this time with more preceptors and developing activities for the students”.
Good communication among team members	R3 “…it worked better this time. The last time we had a problem with staff coverage. And everything has flowed much easier this time. Communication is really open because we have three circles (of nursing staff) in the Child Health Program. Most of it to cover client services and the students have opportunity to discuss public health practices and interventions”.
Feeling overworked	R6 “… the struggle is that you feel constantly overworked. So the crazy question is how this semester experience is different from the last year. The amount of time that I spent was huge, writing those evaluations and communication tools to give the faculty in order to evaluate the students”.