I just wonder if nurses get paid more by becoming preceptors?
I would feel bad if my preceptor is a victim whom is randomly selected without compensation .....I just would like someone who is willing to do it. It does not matter whether they are motivated by monetary gain or their desire to teach.
Where I work, it seem to me that my preceptors change every two weeks I still do not or will never get a permanent preceptor. I am jealous of some other new nurses who have a permanent preceptor. I just wonder if the manager just said "you have to precept such and such new nurse this week".... and then that nurse had no choice but to do it... this is not appropriate especially in critical care setting.
I am just curious but it is not appropriate to ask them :chuckle
I think the new nurses themselves should have to pay their preceptors. After all they are recieveing the benefits of what we can offer them. They paid to go to school, let them pay to be precepted.
Yes, I would like to...but.. with minimum starting pay, I can't even live on it.
If they gave us a few dollars more, I don't mind giving some of the portion to my preceptors. They will feel that they are obligated to teach as more like the clinical instructor in nursing school do Thanks for all your reply.
Why not, Dont you think your wisdom should be worth something to the nebies. Atleast donuts from Krispy Kreme, or golfballs, new not used.
Dont you think that we have all been in the position of being new so did you pay your preceptors?
I agree cakes would be good but I would as fat as a house now. I have been preceptor to newly qualified staff nurses, students and new employees all round the same time.
We have a list of nurses who want to precept, and that's who we place with orientees. It's rare that someone is forced to precept.
However, I work in a very large NICU and we have 120+ nurses on the unit, most who've been there for 15+ years, so it's very easy to find someone with plenty of experience who enjoys precepting.
Specializes in Tele, Home Health, MICU, CTICU, LTC.
We get paid $1 extra an hour to precept. Generally they try to assign one preceptor for the entire time you are orienting. Sometimes that changes based on needs.
The new nurses on our floor get the same preceptor for the 12 weeks of nursing orientation. As many of these newbies have worked as PCAs before graduating, we get to know the nurses and see who really enjoys precepting. There are a couple of them that I have approached about possibly precepting me when I finish. We have a great clinical manager and she is very supportive of this. I, too, hope that these preceptors are compensated.
I think the new nurses themselves should have to pay their preceptors. After all they are recieveing the benefits of what we can offer them. They paid to go to school, let them pay to be precepted.
Right. And preceptors get the benefit of sitting on their orifices all shift while the preceptee does all the drudge work. That is the trade-off... your experience for my labor with tasks.
Right. And preceptors get the benefit of sitting on their orifices all shift while the preceptee does all the drudge work. That is the trade-off... your experience for my labor with tasks.
Now you got it. You pay us to sit on our butts and you do all the work. Then we eat you because we like to eat our young.
Right. And preceptors get the benefit of sitting on their orifices all shift while the preceptee does all the drudge work. That is the trade-off... your experience for my labor with tasks.
If they are setting on their collective orifices, then the preceptee isnt availing them of their wisdom.
Me, I tried precepting a couple of nurses, stopped doing it also. Too much paperwork involved in the process. While Im very good at taking care of patients, my patience for walking newbies through procedures is lacking. Drives me nuts, yes thats a short drive. I just nurse and love it
I still do not or will never get a permanent preceptor. 
I am jealous of some other new nurses who have a permanent preceptor. I just wonder if the manager just said "you have to precept such and such new nurse this week".... and then that nurse had no choice but to do it... this is not appropriate especially in critical care setting.
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Yes, I would like to...but.. with minimum starting pay, I can't even live on it.
If they gave us a few dollars more, I don't mind giving some of the portion to my preceptors. They will feel that they are obligated to teach as more like the clinical instructor in nursing school do
Thanks for all your reply.