I am not sure if it is true or not, but I heard that RNs get a little extra pay when they work on a day where nursing students are present. If the charge RN assigned a student to an RN, then they get the extra pay.
I am talking about college nursing students not training a new employee.
It just came on top of my head because I have been assigned to lousy RNs during my clinical rotations and it feels like they should be more engaged with students
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I am not sure if it is true or not, but I heard that RNs get a little extra pay when they work on a day where nursing students are present. If the charge RN assigned a student to an RN, then they get the extra pay.
I am talking about college nursing students not training a new employee.
It just came on top of my head because I have been assigned to lousy RNs during my clinical rotations and it feels like they should be more engaged with students
Some Hospital's do pay a small differential to nurses who sign up to be teachers and preceptors. By small I mean small. It more a token of appreciation to them than anything - I'm sorry you had some bad experiences. I myself, enjoy mentoring but I also had really good mentors when I started out - so I look at it as paying it forward.
Specializes in Tele, Interventional Pain Management, OR.
Reply to Flying Scot (I'm sorry; I forgot to use the quote function) about whether our instructors are on the unit:
They are on the unit! I don't think my program (nor the hospital) would allow us there unattended. They actively roam the floor throughout our entire shift, every time. It's just that nine students are spread out over a huge unit so the CI and med assist are not always within immediate eyesight to flag down.
But if they are right there--which can also happen with eerily good timing--no need to text!
This is what I did as a nursing student to make it better for me and for the nurse I was working with.
Anything you you can do, do it. Be helpful. Check blood glucose. Open food containers. Get ice and water for patients. Bathe the patient. Change the linens. Show the family where they can get coffee and water. Empty the Foley bag, measure the output and write it down. If you do these things this helps the nurse get her work done and maybe she'll have the time and energy to work with you and teach you things. Work with the nurse. Meanwhile you will get some time to practice the skills you have been checked off on.
Me, never. I hated mean nurses during clinicals so I vowed never to be that way. About 90% of the time we have students I get one and they always say how much they liked working with me. About half of them hug me. If they come back, they try to work with me again. It did make a difference on my evaluation. But it really can make my job harder. I have a system to stay on track and it slows me down.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
I'm surprised by some of these comments and how rude they are. Obviously alot of people done forgot how it was when they were in nursing school.
You're very wrong. No one has forgotten what is was like when we were in nursing school. But the students have NO idea what it's like to be a nurse. And evidently they aren't able to learn from us telling them.
I'm surprised by some of these comments and how rude they are. Obviously alot of people done forgot how it was when they were in nursing school.
I may have some white hairs showing through my dye job, young pup, but nursing school for me was only a year and a half ago. I still remember it quite well, thank you.
I remember that I was assigned patients, not nurses; I was expected to perform all ADLs as allowed by pt condition and nurse permission; I was not to hound/follow/quiz the nurses on the floor; I was to do my meds with my CI and only my CI. If she was busy, I didn't do them.
And I surely did not b!tc# at ALL. Not about the nurses, the cares, about not getting to meds or procedures.
It is a shame that they charge money for mandatory classes on professional development - so many nowadays appear to have learned nothing.
Sorry for offending people but this thread sounds like students are a pain in the ass and a big inconvenience and all I was saying was I was surprised. I didn't expect it. Just speaking my mind like everybody else on here.
Sorry for offending people but this thread sounds like students are a pain in the ass and a big inconvenience and all I was saying was I was surprised. I didn't expect it. Just speaking my mind like everybody else on here.
Nope, no Olympic Backpedal for you.
This is what you said:
"I'm surprised by some of these comments and how rude they are. Obviously alot of people done forgot how it was when they were in nursing school."
Nothing about being surprised about students being inconvenient and a pain. Just a tired, overworked jab at experienced nurses.
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Some Hospital's do pay a small differential to nurses who sign up to be teachers and preceptors. By small I mean small. It more a token of appreciation to them than anything - I'm sorry you had some bad experiences. I myself, enjoy mentoring but I also had really good mentors when I started out - so I look at it as paying it forward.
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