Welcome to the Maine Nurse Preceptor Education Program (MNPEP) founded by Lunder-Dineen Health Education Alliance of Maine (Lunder-Dineen). Lunder-Dineen, a program of Massachusetts General Hospital, aims to provide free education to health care professionals tailored to address the state's most critical public health and workforce issues. in 2015, Lunder-Dineen established the Maine Nursing Preceptor Education Program as a solution to the paucity of formally trained nurse preceptors. Its overarching goal is to advance and support the recruitment, integration, satisfaction, and retention of nursing students, new nurses, and transitioning nurses across the continuum of care. This year, we welcome you to a newly designed set of dynamic and intuitive online modules, with the support of MGH Institute of Health Professions (MGH IHP).
Mass General is dedicated to educating, supporting and mentoring the next generation of local, national and international health care leaders. As the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the founder of the MGH Institute of Health Professions, education is one of the pillars of the hospital’s four-part mission. It is this commitment to education as part of a shared community of care which first inspired the long-term collaboration between MGH and the Lunder Foundation to create the Lunder-Dineen Health Education Alliance of Maine (Lunder-Dineen).
Established in 2010, Lunder-Dineen – recognizing long-time MGH physician and Maine native James J. Dineen, MD – challenged Mass General to find innovative ways to improve health care in Maine. Among its many offerings was a free Maine Nursing Preceptor Education Program aimed at increasing the number of trained nurse preceptors to orient new nurses in the state. To date, more than 1,250 nurses from 100 organizations have participated in the program.
We help your organization train and retain confident, skilled nurse preceptors. In turn, they cultivate excellence in new nurses across your care teams.
Click to view our latest interactive infographic. The data in this infographic was collected in 2019 and 2020 from participants in the Maine Nursing Preceptor Education Program (MNPEP). Survey components included a pre-program registration survey, a workshop evaluation, and a post-program evaluation. The survey was administered by the MGH Education Department.
We provide dynamic education, ongoing practice support, and access to experts who can help nurses troubleshoot real-world challenges.
Stay connected, share best practices, ask questions, and extend your growth through this vibrant community of program graduates.
Health systems and practices across Maine know that collaborative, interprofessional practice can deliver progress against public health challenges and give patients pathways to health.
This team represents nurse leaders from practice and academia across settings in Maine.
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