Interested in tutoring students!

MistyLou · Jan 1, 2005

hi student nurses!
i have been a critical care nurse for 18 years. i am interested in reaching out to the schools near me and offering to tutor nursing students. i would like to know how much you would pay for that and in what areas do students need the most help with.
thanks for you input! i appreciate it!
trish

My school provides free tutors to ANYONE who needs them. I tutored Algebra, A&P, Chem and Bio through the school, and the pay was lousy.

z's playa · Jan 1, 2005

We have free tutors too! Your best bet is to make up some flyers with your number on it and post it up around a school with the price. Maybe with an angle ( your experience, what makes you the best tutor etc...) because since most tutoring is free, there has to be incentive to pay you. Good luck.

I would say the area we need help in the most is A&P.

Jen2 · Jan 1, 2005

We also have free tutoring at our school. I would suggest to do private tutoring in your home. You could put fliers up around town or run an ad in the local newspaper. I think that if you tutor at my school they only pay like $6.00 an hour. So private tutoring would be the way to go. I would probably be willing to pay like $20 for a two hour session on the material I was studying. Some things that my class has had the most problems with thus far is ABG's, fluid and electrolytes, cardiac monitoring, and endocrine disorders. Hope this helps. Good luck.

z's playa · Jan 1, 2005

We also have free tutoring at our school. I would suggest to do private tutoring in your home. You could put fliers up around town or run an ad in the local newspaper. I think that if you tutor at my school they only pay like $6.00 an hour. So private tutoring would be the way to go. I would probably be willing to pay like $20 for a two hour session on the material I was studying. Some things that my class has had the most problems with thus far is ABG's, fluid and electrolytes, cardiac monitoring, and endocrine disorders. Hope this helps. Good luck.

$20.00??????? Akkkkk. I don't know about your financial situation but I can tell you that the nursing students...heck..ANY student has a VEERY tight budget so $20.00 is waaaaay too steep. :uhoh21: At least here it is.

We don't even pay that much for CPR training OR recertification. (3 hours)

:chuckle

MistyLou · Jan 1, 2005

$20.00??????? We don't even pay that much for CPR training OR recertification. (3 hours)
:chuckle

That's true! I think I paid $28 for a 6 hour CPR/First Aid Cert grated it wasn't 1 on 1!

SarasotaRN2b · Jan 1, 2005

Well, actually I had tutored chemistry this semester and made $20 an hour. Believe me, I had to turn away students. I'm not sure if that it would work in nursing school, but hey, it doesn't hurt to find out.

Kris

Achoo!, LPN · Jan 1, 2005

I worked for the school as a notetaker, and they pay tutors the same, it was 8.15 an hour.

Jen2 · Jan 1, 2005

Honestly, I think that if someone is really having a lot of problems and they get a private tutor that really helps and their grades improve they would get the money. I know if I was having difficulty, in my nursing classes I would be willing to go to a private tutor on a Saturday for a couple of hours two days a month. It would be like $40 a month, but if it improved my grades, I would cut my budget elsewhere. I would especially pay that much for a private NCLEX tutor. I have actually been looking for someone to tutor me for NCLEX after I graduate this May. Those NCLEX courses are like $500 for an 8 hour class and people have told me that they get more from their $30 NCLEX books than they did from those courses.