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I'm in a BSN program which requires 225 hours for our preceptorship. My program requires our preceptor nurse to have a BSN. If no BSN nurse was available for our shift or unit, we were assigned to a ADN nurse with a co-preceptor who has BSN and could check on us and evaluate as needed. Due to the lack of nurses available for precepting, I have been assigned to 2 units. I do part of my hours on an ortho/neuro/urology unit with a ADN nurse and the other half of my hours on an acute stroke unit with a ADN nurse. As for skills, I am doing almost everything on my own now. Both of my nurses evaluated my ability to check on patients, give meds, and assess. I still ask for them to come in while I do procedures such as start IVs, put in NGTs, or pull out JP drains. I'm slowly building my confidence and really start to feel like I can handle being a nurse.
Ours is 120 hours. I picked a great hospital. I'm doing clinicals there now. I have PIXIS access, which is great, and the ICU I picked is great. I did rotations on Med-Surge ICU and they let me take my own patient and I did everything with my RN looking over me. She would remind me if I forgot something, or just let me know protocols, but other than that I had to do everything on my own. It was awesome!
my preceptorship for my BSN is similar to crmson lady. we have to get 225 hours with 14 of our hours being meeting hours. I'm doing my precepting on the acute stroke unit also. My preceptor is awesome. She's very good at nursing and I'm learning a lot from her. I take on my own patients also. On a typical day i'll have three patients to care for. I'm also building my confidence. Our hours have to be completed by April 13th. I have 29 more med-surg hours and 14 meeting hours left. It is all winding down now:) , but so far everything has been fine.
crmson_lady
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I'm currently doing my preceptorship and was wondering about others doing the same. What kind of program (ADN or BSN)? How many hours are required to complete the preceptorship? What unit(s) are you doing it on? Are you doing more skills and feeling like a real nurse or just following a nurse around & 'helping' with things?