Development of a preceptorship/mentorship program for endocrine nurses in British Columbia
Date
2013-01-24
Authors
Tan, Mabel
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British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital (BCCH), Child Health BC (CHBC) and their
regional partners have been exploring ways to provide high quality, standardized health care
closer to home to children throughout the province requiring sub-specialty health care. Many of
the sub-specialty programs are providing outreach or telemedicine services as well as capacity
building support to the regional areas. In the endocrinology program at BCCH, outreach
activities have been ongoing for approximately seven years with a push to increase outreach
activities to other regions. As an advanced practice nurse in this department, my role has been to
advocate for, and support the nursing contribution to these outreach activities. This has led to the
development of a capacity building and mentorship program. The goal of this program is to
provide support and mentorship to nurses working with pediatric endocrine patients throughout
the province. Our hope is that the program will strengthen collaboration, standardize care, further
best practice and ultimately improve the health of pediatric endocrine patients throughout BC. In
fulfillment of my Masters of Nursing project, I plan to describe and provide evidence based
rationale for this program. As well, I will outline a plan for conducting an evaluation of the
program to determine whether the program is successful in strengthening pediatric endocrine
nursing care in regional clinics throughout BC and whether changes need to be made as we
implement the program across regions.
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endocrine nurses, nurses, mentorship, preceptorship