Should We Be Trained to Train? Nursing Students’ and Newly Qualified Nurses’ Perception on Good Lecturers and Good Clinical Preceptors Martínez Linares, José Manuel Parra-Sáez, Celia Tello-Liébana, Carlos López-Entrambasaguas, Olga María Educational nursing research Nursing students Preceptorship Nursing faculty practice Evaluation studies Qualitative research Evaluation studies Background: The reform of the Spanish higher education studies from the Bologna Declaration did not entail the necessary changes in the teaching methodologies used. The clinical preceptor emerged as the main guiding professional in the practical training of nursing students. The aim of this qualitative study was to understand fourth-year nursing students’ and newly qualified nurses’ (NQNs) perception on their lecturers’ and clinical preceptors’ effectiveness. Methods: Exploratory, descriptive qualitative study was carried out at a Spanish University. By convenience sampling and according to defined inclusion and exclusion criteria, twelve newly qualified nurses and twelve fourth-year students of the Degree in Nursing were included in order to contrast the results. A thematic analysis of data was carried out, to later be coded by two researchers. Results: Two main themes were identified: the good lecturer and the good clinical preceptor, with several subthemes in each. These included the characteristics that both should have, both in teaching, nursing and interpersonal-relation skills. Conclusions: The need of preceptorship training programs has been highlighted in our context. Educators all over the world should be properly qualified in order to train and educate competent nurses for the future. 2019-12-05T11:18:45Z 2019-12-05T11:18:45Z 2019-12-04 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Martínez-Linares JM, Parra-Sáez C, Tello-Liébana C, López-Entrambasaguas OM. Should We Be Trained to Train? Nursing Students’ and Newly Qualified Nurses’ Perception on Good Lecturers and Good Clinical Preceptors. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 2019, 16, 4885; [doi:10.3390/ijerph16244885] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/58210 10.3390/ijerph16244885 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España MDPI