Core competencies for Registered Nurse preceptors: A mapping review of quantitative studies.

Aims: To review the contemporary international literature on nurse preceptor competencies and map the components and their descriptors.

Review Methods: A mapping review.

Data Sources: Articles reporting evidence-based and validated Registered Nurse (RN) preceptor competencies published between 2013 and 2022 were identified.

Insights from the pandemic: an autoethnography of nursing clinical placement teams.

Background: Designated placement staff, including academics, professional clinical support teams and stakeholder clinical teams, are responsible for organising students' clinical placements. Disciplines have reported sustained innovations in the way placement staff work following the pandemic. There are few published reports from nursing placement staff.