Evaluation of Preceptors’ Role and Preceptorship Model at Undergraduate Program of Nursing at Karachi, Pakistan

Preceptorship model has gained a lot of popularity in nursing education. A preceptor serves as a role model and stress reducer for nursing students in clinical seing that is correlated with quality delivery of care. The current study has evaluated the role of preceptor and preceptorship program at undergraduate program of nursing at Karachi, Pakistan.

A descriptive study cross-sectional design was employed to achieve the study objectives. The study was conducted in one of the private schools of nursing located in Karachi, Pakistan. Data was collected based on Consecutive sampling from undergraduate students. Mean and standard deviation were estimated for continuous variables. Frequency and proportions were calculated for categorical variables. Approval of the study from Institutional ethical review commiee was sought.

The study sample comprised of 22 participants who were recruited from one of the private school of nursing of Karachi, Pakistan. The overall effectiveness of preceptorship model was considered as good and very good by majority of the participants (82%). Regarding the supervision of preceptor, around 91% rated very satisfied to fairly satisfied and only 2 (9%) were dissatisfied with the supervision of preceptor.

In our study preceptorship model and preceptors role is significantly appreciated by nursing graduates during their journey as students in undergraduate nursing programme.