How many of you precept nursing students?

Rubor · Feb 18, 2015

My BSN program eliminated school nursing from the program because they didn't feel students got a good experience. I begged to have a school nursing placement, and was lucky to get it. My preceptor mentioned the complaints you all have about BSN students not taking advantage of the experience. One of them complained to her that she was "losing her skills here." As if a nursing student has skills yet, lol.
It was my favorite clinical. I loved building relationships with the students. The special needs students that I saw twice a day for tube feeds were the highlight of my day. To this day, the only asthma attack and blot clot I've assessed was in the school clinic. I miss school nursing.

Pretty sad that she couldn't realize she had a chance to work on OTHER nursing skills that she would have a hard time working on in the hospital but could definitely be used no matter which field of nursing she wanted to be in.

Windchaser22 · Feb 19, 2015

School nursing was my favorite rotation. I got to do 5 full days as part of my ADN program in a variety of schools and grades. In some I observed and asked a million questions, in others was an active participant. It inspired me to pursue it as my specialty and I am forever grateful to the school nurses who allowed me into their world.

117800 · Feb 19, 2015

I am so glad to see this question and all the responses. I will be taking on a nursing student for 3 days in April for the first time. I hope it is a good experience for both of us. If not, I won't offer next school year.

Wave Watcher · Feb 20, 2015

Yes, I get about 2-3 this time of year from a tech college. They get to my school at 8:15am and I let them go by 10:00am. My clinic is slow and I'm not going to have them sitting in front of me bored to death. :-)

dcwang · Feb 20, 2015

I'm going to be in nursing school soon and I'm nervous about clinical. I want to be as competent as possible coming out of nursing school. I'm already thinking what specialty I want to do my preceptorship in. Wish it was OR or icu for now.

SassyTachyRN · Feb 21, 2015

Yes, I get about 2-3 this time of year from a tech college. They get to my school at 8:15am and I let them go by 10:00am. My clinic is slow and I'm not going to have them sitting in front of me bored to death. :-)

Mine stay for 6 hours/day for 8-9 weeks. It gets very drawn out and I have a usually slower clinic, although it has it's moments, no diabetics/tube feelings/caths, so sometimes I feel like I don't have much for them to do/see. I've cut back on the number of students I take because of this.

JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN · Feb 23, 2015

I'm precepting a student for the first time right now. About 6 weeks, 6 hours a week, but it has been so jumbled because of all the snow days I've had this year.

I happen to be teaching sex ed this quarter, so my student has been observing and we are developing her project around STI prevention with my HS students. My clinic is typically fairly busy, and when it is not, we talk about the other parts of job and I've been teaching about screenings and getting ready for the upcoming postural screenings I need to complete. I do have student with diabetes, asthma, sickle cell, and Crohn's, so when they visit, it is good learning opportunity and the students are great sports about it.

fetch, BSN, RN · Mar 2, 2015

It's not really precepting per se, but I'm getting one student for two days a month apart, and three other students each one day. And of course the schedule got jumbled, so I was expecting my first one this Thursday and instead she's here today! Eek!

So far she's helped me do a bulletin board and we reviewed EpiPens/anaphylaxis . . . beyond that just discussing student issues and how to assess younger kids. I really don't know what to do with her, I thought I had a few more days to prepare!