Support for Safe Clinical Learning

Precepting Essentials:

Purpose: To enable clinical staff to effectively develop and validate competence in colleagues, students, and new hires.

Target Audience: Direct care providers who support orientation, internship, performance evaluation, and/or coaching for students, new grads or other new hires in the healthcare workplace. Secondary audience includes academic faculty, managers and educators who use internship, orientation, performance evaluation, student clinical &/or preceptor programs in the clinical setting.

This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Northeast Multi-State Division (NE-MSD), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Contact hours - 6.5Code #: 40-0018-0069Approval valid through June 14, 2018

Preceptor Preparation: Resources, Styles & Development (core program includes thisself-study module)

Purpose: To use self-awareness of personality, learning, conflict and Critical thinking styles to improve experiential learning for novices that they precept, within the parameters of agency protocol, resources, and professional practice.

Disclosures: The planning committee has reviewed the disclosure forms and found no real or perceived conflicts of interest. There is no commercial support or sponsorship for this learning module. Attendance for the full program is required for contact hour credit. No partial credit is offered for partial attendance. This offering is made available by VNIP, a not-for-profit organization that develops transition into practice support for nurses and other direct care providers. All completion records are maintained in the VNIP office.at 289 County Rd, Windsor, VT 05089.

This offering seeks to bring about a change in clinical performance. Participants will:

1. Identify developmental needs within participant’s agency or unit
2. Apply core concepts of communication and effective feedback to improve relationships, learning, safe practice and teamwork
3. Use evidence-based principles of teaching and learning to foster critical thinking development in the clinical practice of the student and/or novice that is being precepted
4. Ensure appropriate roles, assignments, delegation, and supervision of patient care as determined by learner’s scope of practice, capability and accountability
5. Develop reflective practice in the learner with individualized clinical coaching plans that adapt to learning styles and track competence achievement in an objective, measurable, & specific manner
6. Create a work plan for supporting effective precepting in their agency or unit

Dates: September 28th, 2017 at Northwestern Medical Center, St Albans, VT

October 26th, 2017 at North Country Hospital, Newport, VT

Class runs from 8:00 to 4:15 pm each day, unless stated otherwise

Registration fee: / VNIP Alliance Member Agency$120
Registration includes both preceptor course and self-study preparation – Total of11.5 contact hours / Registrants from Non-member agencies$189

The self-study course will be sent with registration confirmation – please be sure to provide your e-address!

Please mail or e-mail your registration ASAP to enroll for date/location of your choice!

Refund policy: Registration fee (minus $20 administrative charge) will be refunded or attendance transferred to another session if cancellation notice is received with at least 48 hour notice.Mailing Address: VT Nurse Internship Project, PO Box 416, Ascutney, VT 05030

More info available via VNIP web page: or call 802-674-7069 for information

Preceptor Essentials:

Support for safe clinical learning

Preceptor Development Course – held from 8:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Total of 11.5 contact hours available – see brochure for details

Dates:  September 28th, 2017 at Northwestern Medical Center, St Albans, VT

 October 26th, 2017 at North Country Hospital, Newport, VT

Please check the course date you plan to attend

Registration Form: We will be mailing or e-mailing a pre-assignment module to you. Please give an address that ensures prompt delivery.

Name:Phone:___

e-mail address___

Facility of employment

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Registration fee: VNIP Alliance Member Agency$120

Registrants from Non-member agencies$189

Amount Enclosed

Refund policy: Registration fee will be refunded minus a $20 processing charge, or attendance transferred to another session, if cancellation notice is sent with at least 48 hours notice.

Space is limited! Please register early!!!

Pre-registration e-mails are encouraged to save your space and ensure attendance on your date of choice

Mailing address:VT Nurses In Partnership, Inc (VNIP), PO Box 416, Ascutney, VT 05030-0416

For questions:e-mail: or Phone: 802-674-7069