Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Clinical preceptor training for critical care in Egypt: Towards a contextualised competency framework

My study is a constructivist grounded theory (GT) approach to explore clinical preceptors’ views and experience of their roles as supervisors of senior nursing students while introducing the Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies (NOFNCC) internship model in the context of an Egyptian critical care hospital (Charmaz 2014). The study’s aim is to develop a conceptual framework (Middle Range Theory/MRT) of clinical preceptors’ competencies to guide the academic nursing faculty in developing the necessary clinical preceptor preparation programme within the context of the Egyptian health system.