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ForwardPreceptor Workshop for Nurse Residents -1/20/2026
The Preceptor Workshop is designed to help registered nurses enhance their skills and knowledge to effectively precept and improve patient care. Participants will integrate the ICOACH model to foster collaboration and introspection, assess their emotional intelligence to manage interactions better, and review adult learning principles to tailor teaching strategies. The course will also emphasize effective communication strategies, focusing on feedback and conflict management to strengthen interactions with patients, families, and healthcare teams. By clarifying the roles and responsibilities of preceptors at Children’s National Hospital, the workshop ensures participants are prepared to deliver safer, more effective patient care.
Target Audience
Nurses
Learning Objectives
- Assess personal emotional intelligence and personality traits using validated self-assessment tools to identify development needs and enhance effective interactions with patients and colleagues
- Assess orientee learning needs, readiness, and baseline competency using standardized clinical and behavioral performance criteria.
- Demonstrate and validate the integration of the ICOACH model within the preceptor roles of socializer, role model, and educator.
- Apply and validate adult learning principles and tailored teaching strategies that support orientee engagement and clinical skill development
- Evaluate orientee performance using objective observation, feedback data, and competency validation outcomes
- Apply communication, feedback, and conflict management strategies to evaluate learner profession and determine readiness for independent practice
- Develop and implement individualized remediation plans based on identified competency gaps
- Reassess learner competency following remediation to confirm safe and effective clinical practice.
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Children’s National Hospital. Children’s National Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Children’s National Hospital Accreditation Provider# 4008362
Credit Designation
Nurses: Children’s National Hospital designates this activity for a maximum of 3.5 Live ANCC contact hours.
Available Credit
- 3.50 ANCCChildren’s National Hospital will provide 3.50 Nursing Contact Hours for this Live activity.
- 3.50 ParticipationSuccessful completion of this continuing education activity.