Semester
Fall
Date of Graduation
2022
Document Type
Problem/Project Report
Degree Type
DNP
College
School of Nursing
Department
Anesthesiology
Committee Chair
Aaron Ostrowski
Committee Member
Eric Lindstrom
Committee Member
Kesheng Wang
Abstract
Formal preceptorship training has been shown to improve the comfort and confidence with precepting across many disciplines. Currently, there is no training program in place for the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) preceptors at a large academic medical center in West Virginia. The overarching goal of this quality improvement (QI) project was to implement a formal preceptorship training for the CRNAs at the facility of interest. The training, or intervention, was the Preceptor Essentials Parts I and II on NetLearning. This project followed the pre-intervention-post-survey design. The participants were self-selected CRNAs. The survey results were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test and descriptive statistics to evaluate the effectiveness and usefulness of this intervention. The participants showed a statistically significant improvement in satisfaction with their preparation for precepting (p=0.029). They also showed improvements with confidence in their ability to precept (p=0.629), comfort in actively coaching (p=0.337), and comfort in working with different personalities or learning styles than their own (p=0.507), but not to a statistically significant amount. The results were borderline significant for improving confidence in providing feedback (p=0.067). All pre-training survey participants (n=19) denied having previous formal preceptor training. The post-training survey participants (n=11) were all satisfied with the mode of learning, computer-based and self-paced. Although past studies have shown statistically significant improvements with preceptors’ comfort and confidence following formal preceptorship training, this QI Project did not show all statistically significant improvements, but all areas did improve from the pre- to post-training surveys, supporting clinical significance.
Recommended Citation
Gillespie, Megan Jean, "Implementation of a Training Program to Improve the CRNA Precepting Experience at an Academic Medical Center" (2022). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 10168.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/10168