Preceptorship- where are you going?

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I am going to the ICU :) I am meeting up with my preceptor on Wednesday. It looks like I'll be doing some 12 hour Sunday shifts to get my time in. I need 80 hours in, is that typical?

Specializes in Renal.

I'm kind of shocked that some of you have to do so few preceptorship hours! Are yall in BSN programs??? We have to have atleast 240 hours next semester (spring 08). We don't have any classes though except for the first 6 weeks (some dumb leadership class), and then preceptorship and graduation!! WooHoo!!

I'm not sure where I'm doing mine yet, they haven't told us! I put down ER, ICU, and Progressive and then Med/Surg. I'll probably do med/surg because one of my clinical instructors hasnt sent in the recommendation form that I need (we have to have 3 rec's in order to do any speciality)... So we'll see! :)

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Specializes in Urgent Care.

Preceptorship is our last clinical rotation. We are set up with a preceptor( mentor)nurse, no instructor, for 80 hours on a specific unit. This does not include the 9 weeks of managamenet clinicals we had at the beginning of the semester with 7 other students and our instructor. Preceptorship is different than other clinical rotations at our school. Maybe that is where the confusion is.

It's our last transition to working on your own.

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I'm kind of shocked that some of you have to do so few preceptorship hours! Are yall in BSN programs??? We have to have atleast 240 hours next semester (spring 08). We don't have any classes though except for the first 6 weeks (some dumb leadership class), and then preceptorship and graduation!! WooHoo!!

I'm not sure where I'm doing mine yet, they haven't told us! I put down ER, ICU, and Progressive and then Med/Surg. I'll probably do med/surg because one of my clinical instructors hasnt sent in the recommendation form that I need (we have to have 3 rec's in order to do any speciality)... So we'll see! :)

Yep, I'm in a BSN program. But my 120 hours of preceptorship are running concurrently with 4 other classes I'm taking (Peds, OB, Community, and Leadership), so I don't see how it would be possible to do an additional 120 hours on top of all that.

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Specializes in Cardiac, NICU, ED.

My first choice was ICU, then Stepdown, but there were so few preceptors that I am going to ER. Should still be fun. I'm hoping to be able to pick up IV insertion skills. We have 70 hours to do in 6 weeks. Is everyone graduating in December?

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I'm in an ABSN program, and we do a minimum of 24 hrs/week for 8 weeks. So, I guess that's a minimum of 192 hours. Mine's not until fall '08, but right now I'm hoping ICU. I've got a long time to change my mind.

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I'm going to be in the OR at a children's hospital. I have no idea what I'm going to do there for my preceptorship. It'll be a little odd because today I was offered and acccepted an internship there for February (YES! ). The management practicum is not supposed to be a training or orientation for the unit, but what is it really going to be? At any rate I'm psyched.

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Specializes in Emergency, Transport.

We got the option of ER, ICU, CCU, Recovery Room, Medical or Surgical. we have to do 130 hours over 8 weeks, then go to a rural hospital and do 40 hours doing various areas of that hospital. I'm doing the ER. Should be fun!

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Specializes in ED.
I am going to the ICU :) I am meeting up with my preceptor on Wednesday. It looks like I'll be doing some 12 hour Sunday shifts to get my time in. I need 80 hours in, is that typical?

is that for one semester ? for your clinical time? if that is thank your lucky stars.... I just figured it out when I read your post each semester we do 240 hours of clinical time not including going to the hospital the day before to get our information and looking all our meds up. when I first started that alone used to take me 6 hours to do. Now I go early to the hospital and whip it out in an hour. for our program we do a total of 900 hours on the floor.

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I just calculated that for my program we do 1350 hours of clinical time during all our 4 years. im happy about that considering ive read that some programs have alot fewer hours than that

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I just calculated that for my program we do 1350 hours of clinical time during all our 4 years. im happy about that considering ive read that some programs have alot fewer hours than that

I think people are getting confused with total clinical hours vs. management hours.

They are not the same.

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What is management time?

For my program we do 1350 hrs of on the floor clinical time throughout the whole 4 years. We dont get time to look up the meds and the pt the night before we have to do it as soon as we get report from the nurse at the beginning of our clincal shift.

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What is management time?

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It is a seperate practicum at the very end of your program. You do not have classes, tests, etc. during this time. You are paired one on one with a preceptor for the predetermined amount of hours required by your program (120 hrs in my case) and you work your preceptor's schedule at the hospital with them.

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