Though not a new concept in the clinical setting (Myrick & Yonge, 2005), preceptorship is still considered a key strategy in educating novice nurses in the clinical area. The preceptorship concept first came to health care providers’ consciousness in the United States in the 1960’s and a decade after, has evolved into an important tool in clinical nursing education (Myrick & Yonge, 2005). In the United Kingdom, preceptorship programs became a part of post-registration education during the 1980’s (Wood, 2007). Countries like Canada and Australia also utilize preceptorship as a tool in helping novice nurses attain professional growth. The professional nurse’s job description specifically entails being a preceptor who receives compensation, which may be monetary or in the form of additional continuing education units (CEUs), job promotion, further education and other perks as a result.
Preceptorship is also recognized in Asia. Chen, Lu & Chen
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The RNSE nurses are trained under the preceptorship of experienced professional nurses who are the head nurses and staff nurses. The head nurses and staff nurses have no formal training on preceptorship but are sent to attend management trainings and administration management seminars. They are also encouraged to take up further studies. While it is an unstructured, informal preceptorship program at the moment in the sense that head nurses and staff nurses do not use the title “preceptor” and are not compensated as such since their involvement in the program is considered voluntary service in nature, the RNSE nurses or preceptees start their training at the general wards until such time that they could be deployed to the special areas based on preceptor evaluation and recommendation. There is a paucity in available literatures regarding the existence of formal preceptorship programs in Baguio City and the Cordillera