Date of Conferral

7-18-2025

Degree

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

School

Nursing

Advisor

Stacy Lourie

Abstract

Today’s nursing workforce consists of individuals from multiple generational cohorts, which creates a dynamic mix of nurses whose behavior and work reflect the cultural and historical events that shaped their generation. As the nursing workforce becomes increasingly multigenerational, nurse educators and leaders face growing challenges in ensuring that onboarding practices meet the needs of diverse learners. In the local organization, leaders and clinical educators observed inconsistencies in preceptorship practices and onboarding experiences, particularly for newly hired nurses. As a result, leaders determined that an educational intervention focused on generational teaching strategies was needed. Thus, the purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was to determine if an educational intervention focused on generational teaching strategies increased knowledge among nurse preceptors working in the local organization. The average pretest score for the number of correctly answered questions was 2.64, and the average posttest score for the number of correctly answered questions was 4.18. This demonstrated a 58.3% increase in the number of correctly answered questions among the participants. This finding substantiates that the educational offering increased nurse preceptors’ knowledge of generational teaching strategies. The increase in knowledge may translate into practice, with the preceptors better equipped to deliver tailored instruction that meets the diverse learning needs of new nurses from multiple generational cohorts.

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