Why a training for preceptor-mentors?

• The role of preceptors and mentors is vital to supporting new hires in a workplace.
  
• The training will increase staff comfort with precepting-mentoring.
• Streamlined content delivery allows for health care agencies to build capacity among experienced nurses to support new hires.

What will this training look like?

Nine foundational modules for all preceptor-mentors:

1. Your roles and responsibilities as a preceptor/mentor
2. Welcoming your preceptee: Establishing the relationship
3. Fostering clinical judgement
4. Learning theories
5. Developing competence and confidence in clinical nursing practice
6. Working together: Communication and role modelling
7. Addressing bullying and microaggressions and conflict resolution
8. Observation, feedback, assessment, and evaluation
9. Anti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization, Indigenization, and reconciliation

Three additional specialized modules:

1. Precepting-mentoring internationally educated nurses
2. Precepting-mentoring new graduates
3. Precepting-mentoring in acute care
   

Live discussion:

• A 1-hour live conversation facilitated by instructors with a wealth of knowledge on precepting and mentoring, offered monthly.
• Engagement with fellow nurses from across the country to share experiences.

Each module is approximately 20 to 30 minutes in length. Participants that successfully complete the modules and live discussion will receive a certificate.

Cost: $295

For more information about the preceptor-mentor training, please contact Leah Watts at lwatts@casn.ca

Enhance Your Learning with Customized In-Person Workshops

In addition to the online Preceptor-Mentor Training Program, CASN now offers in-person workshops available upon request for healthcare organizations seeking a more interactive and tailored learning experience. These workshops are designed to complement the program's foundational modules and can be customized to address your organization's unique priorities, challenges, and practice environments. Topics may include preceptor and mentor skill development, communication and feedback strategies, supporting new graduates and internationally educated nurses, fostering clinical judgment, and creating inclusive learning environments. Organizations can work with CASN to develop a workshop that meets their specific goals and workforce needs.

To learn more about bringing a customized workshop to your organization, please contact Jodie Lachance at jlachance@casn.ca

"What I found most valuable in this training was understanding the importance of establishing a clear framework and structure in both formal and informal interactions with the learner. I came to appreciate that the role of a preceptor or mentor is not simply to transfer knowledge, but to create the conditions that support independent reflective practice. This approach helps learners gradually develop their clinical judgment, critical thinking, and professional autonomy, rather than relying solely on answers or direction."
- Anonymous (Translated from French)