Looking for Nurse Preceptors! - Aspen University

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Hello fellow nurses! I am having great difficulty searching for a nursing preceptor to finish my MSN degree. It has been like pulling teeth and Aspen University has hardly made any effort in helping with placement or even recommending good options that I have already exhausted. Can anyone help or advise?

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Specializes in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.

If you are still currently working as an RN, your place of employment can be a good source of preceptors. Many internal med docs in the hospital do family med. If you are willing to pay, there are websites that provide you with a preceptor for a fee. Last resort is going to clinics and introducing yourself in person with your resume in hand. In my experience, phone calls and emails don't do really help. I had to find my own peds clinic and the one and only clinic I went to, took me in when I walked in first thing in the morning dressed and with my resume in hand. It's pretty ridiculous how most NP programs don't provide preceptors.  

Do check indeed and glassdoor, some clinics actually do advertise precepting listings. I had a friend that did that, the major downside was that he ended up doing nearly anything and everything NP, RN, and MA related as the NP student (lab draws, IV starts vitals, etc). But, each clinic is different. Good luck

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Which state?

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