Do RNs get extra pay for working 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

Specializes in Ped ED, PICU, PEDS, M/S. SD.

Never heard of it

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Specializes in Heme Onc.

Also... What is your idea of "a little extra pay". How much do you think an RN should be paid for taking on YOU as an additional responsibility for the day? $1/hr? $2? Because If you think we should be jumping up and down for $12 pre-tax to have someone follow us around and ask questions all day, you are delusional.

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Specializes in Family Medicine.

Maybe if you pay the nurse directly she won't be as lousy.

Totally kidding.

There is no extra pay for having students. Sorry you're having this experience. The nurse is probably burnt to a crisp and having a student may be the straw that breaks his/her back.

Try to be self directed and soak in whatever you can. Make the best of it.

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I wish we had a "thumbs down" option it would go straight @ Oh'Ello, smh.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

I've worked at many facilities but have never been paid extra to precept students or orientees

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Specializes in Education.

OP, there have been quite a few debates about nursing students, pay, etc.

I'd suspect that people being paid to take a nursing student is very, very rare. My facility doesn't.

Most of the time, we're just told "oh, you have a student today."

Also, it would be interesting to hear your definition of what a lousy RN is.

What I actually am finding downright fascinating is how a bad mood from a nurse automatically turns into a "s/he doesn't like having students" vibe for said students who post about all that on here. Can't poeple even think that maybe, just maybe, it isn't about them? It's a whole lot more likely that the nurse has had a bad day/week/month/whatever. Or a resting b face, even.

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I make a whopping 0.50/hr when I precept a student on their final practicum. Does not even begin to cover my time for the amount of paper work I have to complete for the school. I can't even recommend failing an unsafe student. I have to mentor them, contact their instructor attend meetings to discuss the issues and continue to mentor them.

For clinical rotations on the unit, we show up and see their name next to ours. No warning, just surprise! And of course no extra pay because the instructor is somewhere in the building....

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OP, those lousy RN's you said you were assigned to, do you think it was possible that maybe you were the one with the lousy attitude?

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Specializes in Medical Oncology, ER.

When i was in my first job in LTC just two years ago, i had to mange 36 patients; meds through ng, oral and iv, wound care including big wound vacs on enhanced contact patients on their sacrum. I came in to work one day and was told i'd have nursing students, STUDENTS, not just 1. Don't get me wrong it felt really cool to have students being that i just graduated, but the situation I was in would not allow me to really provide the learning experience that i wanted to give. with 36 patients i was barely keeping afloat, most days i was drowning. So before you call nurses "lousy", graduate, get your first job, and get assigned a student.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Not at my facility. The only time we get extra pay is when we are precepting a newly hired nurse. Students and GN's do not count.

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Were you too not a nursing student once? Who taught you? Yes you are busy we as students get that. I'm so tired of hearing about how terrible it is to have to have us nursing students on your shift! We are there to learn and we are eager to learn just like you were when you were a student! Every day nurses are complaining about being short handed. Quit acting like having an extra person there to teach is such a big deal. It does not take that much effort to explain what your doing whe your doing it!

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
Were you too not a nursing student once? Who taught you? Yes you are busy we as students get that. I'm so tired of hearing about how terrible it is to have to have us nursing students on your shift! We are there to learn and we are eager to learn just like you were when you were a student! Every day nurses are complaining about being short handed. Quit acting like having an extra person there to teach is such a big deal. It does not take that much effort to explain what your doing whe your doing it!

It's not the floor nurses job to teach you. It's your clinical instructor's job, he/she is paid by your school from your tuition to teach you.

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